Director I, Clinical Innovation, Science - job 1 of 3

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

At Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie company, we develop, manufacture, and market a portfolio of leading aesthetics brands and products. Our aesthetics portfolio includes facial injectables, body contouring, plastics, skin care, and more.

With our own research and development team focused on driving innovation in aesthetics, we’re committed to providing the most comprehensive science-based product offerings available.

The Clinical Innovation team is an ambitious team of Scientists, Engineers, Data Scientists, and Product Developers with a unique blend of business, scientific, and technical expertise.  We deliver transformative solutions to advance evidence generation, interpretation and utilization.  As the program continues to grow, we’re seeking a strong leader to drive the development of core capabilities toward an approach designed to consider, measure and interpret all elements that contribute to a personalized outcome. 
As a Director in Clinical Innovation, you will play a leadership role in building the future of evidence generation designed to modernize the approach to clinical design.  The position requires strong analytical skills and the ability to identify and build robust approaches to evidence generation and quickly distill results into actionable next steps to progress toward the strategic vision.

Key Responsibilities
•    Identify, develop and validate clinical scales, tools and methods to support Aesthetic outcomes (pan-franchise).
•    Build strong integration packages to ensure new capabilities are seamlessly leveraged across the business.
•    Lead high-performing team, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
•    Work hand in hand with data sciences to leverage the power of AI toward enhanced insights and to intentionally fill data gaps using the innovative methods/tools/scales developed within your team.
•    Identify and cultivate strong functional and cross functional (Therapeutic Areas, Discovery Sciences, Translational Sciences, etc) relationships to drive organizational synergies and develop meaningful solutions that span translation to late development studies.
•    Stay ahead of emerging science, technologies and trends to identify areas of focus and where we may drive efficiencies by sourcing capabilities externally.
 

•    MD or PhD in Biological Sciences.
•    10+ years of experience with 3+ years in a leadership role. 
•    Demonstrated ability to build, lead, and motivate diverse teams in a fast-paced environment.
•    Highly collaborative, genuinely enjoys working hand-in-hand in team environment to develop solutions that advance AbbVie’s overall mission.
•    Demonstrated research background with proven track record of building on foundational work to advance projects to resolute finish.
•    Experienced in identifying creative solutions for hard to solve challenges.
•    Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously; experience managing projects within complex matrixed organization.
•    Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Helping the team turn ideas into reality.
•    Good commercial, entrepreneurial and innovative thinking, comfortable with ambiguity.
•    Recognized ability to evaluate complex issues from multiple perspectives to ensure balanced risk assessments are made.
 

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​ Salary: $156,000 - $296,500

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. 

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. 

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