Head, Global Patient & Community Partnerships

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

AbbVie’s Corporate Responsibility & Global Philanthropy organization—which currently includes Global Patient Access Programs, Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG), Independent Medical & Patient Education, Global Philanthropy and Impact Communications—seeks 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 AbbVie’s 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 AbbVie's 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 cross-functional stakeholders to advance integrated patient group engagement strategies for priority disease areas; building patient, caregiver and community group engagement capabilities to support a consistent, patient-centric engagement approach across the enterprise; cultivating meaningful, impactful relationships with groups starting early in the R&