Head Global Patient Community Partnerships

AbbVies Corporate Responsibility & Global Philanthropy organizationwhich currently includes Global Patient Access Programs Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) Independent Medical & Patient Education Global Philanthropy and Impact Communicationsseeks to advance and sustain transformational impact for patients communities our business and people.  We are now embarking on the expansion of this organization with the creation of a new enterprise global team Global Patient & Community Partnerships. 

The Head Global Patient & Community Partnerships will be responsible for building this new global enterprise function at AbbVie from implementing its operating model to setting and overseeing its strategic direction to demonstrating impact both for the patient advocacy community and for AbbVies business.  The Head will have oversight of a team of at least four direct reports and will report into the Vice President Corporate Responsibility & Global Philanthropy within the Corporate Affairs organization.

Responsibilities include:

• Build AbbVies newly dedicated Global Patient & Community Partnerships center of excellence to maximize the impact of patient caregiver and community group engagement across AbbVie.
• Oversee a team of patient caregiver and community group engagement experts that collaborate and convene crossfunctional stakeholders to advance integrated patient group engagement strategies for priority disease areas; building patient caregiver and community group engagement capabilities to support a consistent patientcentric engagement approach across the enterprise; cultivating meaningful impactful relationships with groups starting early in the R&D process and throughout the lifecycle to help incorporate and amplify the patient voice across AbbVie; and working with relevant insightsrelated functions to collect insights that bring value and support decision making for internal and external stakeholders.
• Implement new operating model including processes governance and ways of working that optimize engagement with functional colleagues enabling effective and positive collaboration to achieve disease area goals.
• Foster an environment of learning and collaboration ensuring best practices learnings and opportunities are shared across the team to support high performance and impact
• Sit on the Corporate Responsibility & Global Philanthropy leadership team building connections and driving alignment with broader organizational priorities and strategies
• Work in close coordination with functional leadership (e.g. R&D Commercial Corporate Affairs Government Affairs etc) to foster alignment on business and disease area priorities to ensure appropriate prioritization of patient group engagement and focus and to ensure ongoing transparency of progress and impact. 

Qualifications :

• 15 years of experience in healthcare/biopharma in patient advocacy patient relations patient engagement community engagement policy advocacy or corporate affairs
• Demonstrated experience in successfully leading a new or evolved organization developing clear governance and effective operating models and establishing internal networks
• Strong judgment strategic thinking and business acumen; able to effectively evaluate which strategies create most business impact for the unique needs of AbbVies diverse set of disease areas
• Ability to proactively understand enterprisewide patient advocacy needs and make connections across functions setting teams up for success to execute insightdriven patientcentric and measurable patient advocacy strategies
• Strong respect and proven track record of building and maintaining meaningful trustbased relationships with patient advocacy communities demonstrating deep respect understanding and appreciation for the patient voice and equity
• Strong executive presence leadership and partnering skills; effectively communicates to influence decisions in a highly matrixed organization
• Capable of attracting and developing worldclass diverse talent
• Sets high standard for excellence in own work and expectations of team
• Manages conflict in a constructive transparent way
• Creates an environment in which people appropriately experiment and challenge the status quo
• Persistent and resilientfinds the way to move good ideas forward

Additional Information :

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• 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.

• 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 shortterm incentive programs. 

• This job is eligible to participate in our longterm incentive programs

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 Companys sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Companys sole and absolute discretion consistent with applicable law. 

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