Senior Director, Discovery Psychiatry

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

We are seeking a Senior Director with deep expertise in Neuropsychiatry to lead our Discovery Research team. The successful candidate will be responsible for contributing to the strategic goals and advancing the psychiatry early discovery portfolio including driving efforts to support novel target selection, generation of in vitro/ex vivo systems and implementation of circuit-based in vivo systems to demonstrate target engagement and to enable successful translation into clinical development.   This position will work collaboratively within and across medicinal chemistry, quantitative medicine and genomics, precision medicine and clinical development teams.

The successful candidate will be an integral part of the neuroscience leadership team and will share accountability for the success of the neuroscience pipeline.  He/she will also participate in providing scientific insights that advance compelling opportunities through the pipeline, including the selection of optimal translational strategies and the introduction of new technologies.  This individual will advise on and share accountability for transitions across major drug discovery/development milestones.  

The position will be based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and will report to VP of Neuroscience and Ophthalmology Discovery Research.

Key responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:

• Defines and champions asset discovery and development strategies while implementing plans to support prioritization and expeditious progression of the neuroscience portfolio.
• Empowers teams to make critical choices in identifying and developing appropriate models to support lead identification and optimization based on a deep u