Director, Global Patient & Community Partnerships, Immunology

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 Director, Global Patient & Community Partnerships- Immunology will bring strategic connectivity across functions to enable a more holistic, strategic approach to patient advocacy within our Immunology business.  The Director will be responsible for working with cross-functional stakeholders to advance enterprise strategies for patient advocacy and community engagement for priority disease areas within their therapeutic area; cultivating meaningful, impactful relationships with patient advocacy groups starting early in the R&D process and throughout the lifecycle to help incorporate and amplify the patient voice across AbbVie, and supporting a consistent and one AbbVie approach to engaging the patient advocacy community.  The Director will report to the Senior Director, Global Patient & Community Partnerships in Corporate Affairs.

Responsibilities include:

• Lead the enterprise-wide strategy for patient advocacy and community partnerships for the therapeutic area, collaborating in a ‘hub and spoke’ model with functions to enable a more strategic, enterprise approach to patient advocacy and community engagement across the lifecycle; foster better visibility and connectivity among functions to better align and share best practices and insights, and to build and maintain relationships with a broad range of patient advocacy and community stakeholders to support mutual goals.
• Collaborate with internal functions to develop and align on a comprehensive patient engagement plan for specific disease areas, enabling broad understanding of engagement goals, enhancing strategic engagement and improving visibility across functions to reduce redundancies.
• Constantly evaluate opportunities to engage th