Director, U.S. Privacy Compliance Lead

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.

Reporting to the Chief Privacy Officer, the “Director, U.S. Privacy Compliance Lead” is responsible for the development, maintenance, and maturity of all aspects of AbbVie’s U.S. data privacy compliance obligations. The role is accountable for all aspects of U.S. data privacy support for AbbVie commercial and corporate functions.  The role will also support the intersection of U.S. privacy compliance with AbbVie’s global privacy compliance program to accelerate the maturity of AbbVie’s Global Privacy Office, enterprise data enablement, and risk mitigation. 

• Manage and provide strategic leadership to the development, strategy, and ongoing maturity of AbbVie’s U.S. privacy compliance program and synergies with AbbVie’s global privacy program, including but not limited core program controls, business support and guidance, training, and compliance monitoring.  

• Strategic and day-to-day data privacy support for commercial functions (e.g., Aesthetics and Therapeutics), corporate functions (e.g., R&D, HR, operations), and adjacent privacy matters (e.g., incident response, data governance and strategy). 

• Develop and manage U.S. privacy maturity and risk data metrics, assessments, and reporting, as well as support global privacy program metrics, assessments, and reporting.  

• Provide oversight of AbbVie’s HIPAA compliance program. 

• Manage and lead the U.S. privacy compliance team and represent the function as part of the Chief Privacy Officer’s leadership team.  

• Closely partner with cross-functional teams (e.g., commercial, marketing, security, technology solutions, third party risk management, corporate digital, procurement). 

• Collaborate with Legal Privacy as needed for relevant matters. 

• Undergraduate college degree required.  

• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience, including experience developing and operating a privacy compliance program or a general corporate compliance program.  

• Deep expertise in U.S. data privacy requirements, including but not limited U.S. state comprehensive privacy laws, U.S. state consumer health data laws, U.S. state breach notification laws, HIPAA, the TCPA, the CAN-SPAM Act, and Federal Trade Commission frameworks. 

• Experience with global data protection requirements and frameworks, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation. 

• Experience with privacy related matters in the digital and advertising technology ecosystem and the biopharmaceutical industry. 

• Experience advising on privacy matters related to the processing of health information preferred. 

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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