Director, Business Development & Acquisitions

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 www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

The Business Development & Acquisitions function drives the advancement of AbbVie’s R&D pipeline and commercial business by assessing and executing key strategic transactions. Example transaction types include in-licensing, out-licensing, co-development / co-promotion, collaboration, and option deals, as well as divestiture / carve-outs and mergers & acquisitions. The Director, Business Development & Acquisitions, supports identification and analysis of potential new BD opportunities, leads the negotiation of these transactions, and contributes to core company governance and strategic planning processes that support these projects.  

Responsibilities:

• Supports the achievement of overall business development objectives, strategies and tactics for growth of AbbVie’s pharmaceutical business.
• Works constructively with key stakeholders and cross-functional teams (including but not limited to Search & Evaluation, R&D, Pipeline Commercialization Strategy, Legal, IP, and Finance)  to conduct timely initial technical assessments and full due diligence of prioritized opportunities, with specific responsibility for business and financial diligence.
• Presents key opportunities to therapeutic area and enterprise governance bodies concisely, demonstrating strong executive presence and mastery of both strategic rationale and detailed business findings for individual opportunity, to enable effective decision-making.
• Develops effective deal structure, risk mitigation and negotiating strategies to ensure alignment of individual opportunities with AbbVie and TA objectives, as well as support from TA and functional management
• Leads or, in the case of large