Director, Strategic Initiatives

Company 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. Our goal is to consistently provide our customers with innovation, education, exceptional service, and a commitment to excellence, all with a personal touch. For more information, visit https://global.allerganaesthetics.com/. Follow Allergan Aesthetics on LinkedIn.

Job Description

Director, Strategic Initiatives plays a critical role driving design and execution of key strategic projects and initiatives in the US AA Marketing organization.

Role will also serve as a bridge between the Marketing organization and the rest of the organization, collaborating with additional teams (Allergan Medical Institute, Strategic Planning, Personalization & Analytics, Tech and MABI, as well as broader Abbvie teams.

Role will report to the VP Marketing, working cross-functionally with the BOTOX, JUVEDERM,Body and SKM Marketing teams.

THE ROLE:

Work with Brand Marketing leaders to address key business challenges and opportunities, and ensure alignment with US AA strategic priorities

• Develop comprehensive, data-backed assessments and business cases to validate and prioritize strategic initiatives for the Marketing team, helping drive them to execution
• Build relationships across the business to drive cross-functional collaboration
• Build, monitor, and report Marketing OKRs and KPIs to measure the performance and impact on Allergan business from a Customer, Field and Consumer perspective, educating and empowering teams with critical decision support information
• Conduct analyses and modelling of Marketing efforts and go-to-market performance to develop strategic, high-impact insights that improve performance and future efforts
• Leading ad hoc special projects on a day-to-day basis, shaping thinking and driving execution, partnering with internal colleagues and external parties

Serve as a bridge between the Marketing organization and the rest of US AA

• Serve as liaison to Strategic Planning, representing Marketing organization in US AAs business planning and business reviews, to surface insights for proactive decision making in executive forums
• Represent Marketing organization in budgeting and financial forecasting efforts, and Abbvie Finance, as well as in Media planning exercises
• Ensure alignment between marketing organization efforts, Sales and Alle Product roadmap
• Work cross-functionally with AMI to help develop an overall strategy for Allergan training initiatives

Drives the Strategic response to cross functional report outs that include but are not limited to

• Business Reviews with CEO, CFO etc….
• LRP Planning with Finance, GCD and other partners
• Annualized business planning with cross functional partners

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field.
• 10+ years experience in a complex, matrix organization including: 5-7 years in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry, 5+ years demonstrated experience running large scale projects effectively.
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement new frameworks and capabilities from concept through execution.
• Proven strength in strategic planning, organizational design, and leading through ambiguity.
• A high level of oral and written communication skills is required.
• Program management experience with demonstrated decision-making is required. Person must have demonstrated ability to work under pressure, to think strategically in problem solving and decision-making.

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.​

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