Director of AI External Innovation and Partnerships
Director of AI External Innovation and Partnerships
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Position Overview:
The Director of AI External Innovation and Partnerships will leverage their expertise at the intersection of AI and biopharmaceuticals to support strategic partnerships and business development efforts that drive external innovation at AbbVie.
This position reports to the VP AI Strategy and Operations and will focus on identifying and implementing AIcentric partnerships and collaborations that enhance AbbVies AI/ML capabilities and pipeline.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive the overall strategies and tactics for identifying assessing and partnering with AIdriven drug discovery companies technology firms and venture firms that align with AbbVies AI strategy.
- Lead due diligence efforts for a range of AIrelated deals (e.g. with AIdriven drug discovery companies Big Tech research labs focused on foundational LLMs data companies academia) including AI technology assessments market analysis and risk evaluations.
- Work with key stakeholders and crossfunctional teams to drive and ensure effective communication efficient decisionmaking and completion of AI/MLrelated partnerships / deals in a timely manner.
- Integrate input from various functional areas across the organization to create high quality clear and decisionenabling technical assessments due diligence reports and presentations with recommendations to AbbVies Executive Management team of partnership opportunities in the AI/ML space.
- Stay at the forefront of emerging AI trends and advancements in biopharma to inform strategic decisionmaking.
- Develop and maintain a strong network of AI experts thought leaders and innovators to ensure AbbVie remains at the forefront of AI developments.
- Proactively participate and represent AbbVie in industry forums conferences and consortia to strengthen external engagement and visibility in AI innovation.
- Position AbbVie as a global leader in AIdriven biopharma by publishing industry insights white papers and articles with the VP of AI Strategy and Partnerships.
Qualifications :
Qualifications:
- 8 years of relevant experience including in AI/ML applications in life sciences or healthcare.
- Ph.D. or Masters degree in related field e.g. Computer Science Statistics Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence Physics Mathematics Computational Chemistry Chemistry Bioinformatics Computational Biology Biology or a related discipline. OR
Undergraduate degree in Computer Science Statistics Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence Physics Mathematics Computational Chemistry Bioinformatics Computational Biology Biology or a related discipline and 5 years of working experience in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence Data Science relevant Biopharmaceutical industry or Private Equity / Venture Capital experience.
- Demonstrated project management and leadership skills to lead/manage crossfunctional teams in evaluating partnering opportunities and producing high quality due diligence reports.
- Ability to drive projects to deliver timely results and follow through on internal and external commitments.
- Exemplary written and oral communication skills with the ability to bridge technical and business perspective.
- Strong existing network and networking skills to reach out to a broad range of industry decision makers to keep abreast of emerging opportunities in AI.
- Demonstrated negotiation and influencing skills with diverse groups of stakeholders in a partnership setting to creatively solve problems with internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong business acumen and ability to drive wellinformed factbased decision making
- Management consulting experience at a TopTier consulting firm a plus.
Additional Information :
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.
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.
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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Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
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