Head of Global Fillers and Regenerative Injectables PCS

Company Description

About AbbVie

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

The Head of Fillers and Regenerative Injectables PCS (Pipeline Commercialization & Strategy) is responsible for shaping the integrated strategic vision, direction and implementation for the hyaluronic acid, biostimulatory, and regenerative injectables portfolio.  The individual is responsible for all aspects of the new product pipeline and overall strategy for the Allergan Aesthetics Fillers & Regenerative Injectables portfolio to help support our long-term leadership of the category through innovation and category expansion.

This individual will lead a team to develop and deliver against a pipeline strategy that contributes business growth, drives category leadership, and optimizes the portfolio value. This includes building a deep understanding of the global market landscape, trends, customer and consumer needs, and creating a plan to address gaps through internal and external innovation.  They will provide the strategic oversight and guidance to manage the interdependencies and learnings across our injectables franchises to maximize the success of our pipeline.  

The role demands strong leadership and close collaboration with global, cross-functional colleagues, including R&D, Operations, US and International Consumer and Customer Marketing, and Area and Affiliate level delivery teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Acts as the accountable commercial owner of the global fillers & regenerative injectables pipeline and franchise strategy
• Builds and leads a high-performing team to gather key global commercial insights - based on market research, competitive intelligence, KOL perspectives and internal insights - to deliver a robust portfolio strategy
• Supports their team to identify opportunities for growth via new product introduction and portfolio optimization – creating a unified internal and external innovation strategy
• Responsible for ensuring robust early commercial planning and smooth transition of pipeline programs to downstream execution teams
• Develops close working relationship with leaders across R&D, regulatory/legal, medical affairs, market research, operations, marketing and key opinion leaders; bringing together the best of the business to drive results in a heavily matrixed, fast-paced environment
• Navigates competing priorities across functions and regions to align on the best path forward for the overall global fillers & regenerative injectables business
• Ensures strong cross functional and leadership alignment on the strategy and key commercial inputs into the associated pipeline programs
• Maintains robust understanding of competitor insights and associated implications for the Allergan Aesthetics facial injectables portfolio
• Supports agile decision making to adapt strategy as needed based on evolving insights and pipeline developments
• Maintains accountability for the development of rigorous forecasts to support portfolio optimisation and business decision making, and a rigorous LRP submission
• Owns budget and proactively partner with Finance to ensure timely review of and management of financial resources

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree within a relevant course of study
• MBA, PhD, or other advanced degree in a relevant field (e.g., Medicine, Sciences, etc.) strongly preferred
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in pharmaceuticals or medical devices, with experience in medical aesthetics strongly preferred
• Minimum of 3+ years’ people leadership experience
• Global experience strongly preferred
• Experienced and comfortable working in a highly matrixed organization
• Strong strategic thinking, with a proven ability to develop robust strategies and support sound decision making based on drawing together disparate insights
• Demonstrated track record of leading a diverse team through a compelling shared vision, nurturing and developing key talent
• Proven ability to collaborate and work cross-functionally, leveraging strong interpersonal skills to successfully driven consensus in a matrixed organization
• Strong analytical expertise
• Ability to understand scientific data and biologic mechanisms, and compellingly communicate to different internal and external audiences  
• Able to pivot appropri