Associate Director, Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Communications

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 Communications team is responsible for enterprise internal and external communications to enhance and protect AbbVie’s reputation. The team is seeking an Associate Director who will lead incident response communications to critical cybersecurity events, major network outages, data privacy and other IT incidents across AbbVie’s global footprint.

As a member of the Global Operations Communications team, this role will be responsible for working cross-functionally to rapidly identify, mitigate and elevate reputational and business issues. The successful candidate will also lead communications for our Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and support other key executives involved in incident response – including AbbVie’s global privacy team. This role will work also closely with Business Technology Services (BTS) to develop, deliver and deploy effective cybersecurity communications in response to specific or emerging threats.

Responsibilities

• Leads crisis communications governance and responses to major cybersecurity and data privacy issues across AbbVie’s global footprint
• Serves as communications lead on Business Technology Services Crisis Action Team
• Partners with AbbVie’s Cybersecurity Incident Response Team to rapidly identify, triage and elevate issues impacting operations, networks, data security or employees.
• Maintains cybersecurity and data incident response communications plan and supports training, upskilling and education of AbbVie’s communications teams around the world
• Leads executive communications and thought leadership for the Chief Information Security Officer, working closely with AbbVie security, pri