Director II

East Irvine, California

Salary Details: $177000.00 - 336000.00 a year

AbbVie
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Company Description

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 . on X , Facebook , Instagram , YouTube , LinkedIn and Tik Tok .


Job Description

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, were 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, were seeking a visionary 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 II 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, the ability to translate strategic vision into tactical action, synthesize complex issues into actionable solutions, identify the highest impact ideas and plans and focus team efforts and communicate value effectively to all levels of the company.

Key Responsibilities
Translate strategic vision into tactical action with clearly defined milestones, identify the highest impact ideas and plans, and focus efforts to work efficiently.
Lead high-performing science, engineering and data sciences teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Build strong partnership and establish areas of shared responsibilities with your Clinical Innovation counterpart to co-develop creative clinical design and endpoints.
Build strong knowledge base for cross-franchise priorities; foster a continuous learning mindset to become an expert on competitor approach to evidence generation and be able to contextualize strategy in the context of the bigger picture.
Identify and cultivate strong functional and cross functional (Regulatory, Biostatistics, Discovery Sciences, BTS, Commercial etc) relationships to drive organizational synergies.
Stay ahead of emerging science, technologies and trends to identify areas where we may drive efficiencies by sourcing capabilities externally.
Collaborate with project management to ensure robust tracking system is developed and monitored closely.
Evaluate and optimize existing capabilities, identifying opportunities for developing new capabilities and improve performance, cost, and integration.


Qualifications

PhD in Biological Sciences, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
10+ years of experience in technical area, with at least 5 years in a leadership role; management consulting experience preferred.
Demonstrated ability to build, lead, and motivate diverse teams in a fast-paced environment.
Capability building / Change management skills leverage empathy and coaching with functional stakeholder to achieve organizational buy-in and long-lasting changes.
Highly collaborative, genuinely enjoys working hand-in-hand in team environment to develop solutions that advance AbbVies overall mission.
Experience managing large projects within a complex matrixed organization, either as an external consultant or an internal cross-functional lead.
Demonstrated ability to organize and facilitate brainstorming workshops to bring new ideas to fruition. Helping the team turn ideas into reality.
Good commercial, entrepreneurial and innovative thinking/analytical skills, comfortable with ambiguity.
Recognized ability to evaluate complex issues from multiple perspectives to ensure balanced risk assessments are made.
Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.


Additional Information

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  • The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at the timeof this posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemay ultimatelypay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in thefuture.

  • We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.

  • This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentiveprograms.

  • This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentiveprograms


Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay be modified at the Companys sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable 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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Date Posted: 15 May 2025
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