Director, Independent Medical Education

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 Independent Medical Education team is committed to strategically addressing the most critical healthcare knowledge gaps across disease areas by supporting best in industry independent medical education.  The Director, Independent Medical Education, as the head of this team, leads AbbVie’s comprehensive grants program to support independent medical education across AbbVie’s key disease areas. 

Responsibilities:

Lead and Inspire a High-Performing Team: Manage and mentor a team of four IME professionals, driving performance and excellence while ensuring the team’s alignment with the company’s strategic goals and vision for independent medical education.

Strategic Leadership and Oversight: Oversee a $25MM budget, ensuring the efficient allocation of resources to support impactful educational programs that directly enhance clinical practice and patient outcomes. Drive the strategic direction for disease-specific educational programs that bridge critical knowledge gaps and empower healthcare professionals.

Transformation and Innovation: Oversee the execution of the IME team’s transformation, including the evolution to a new technology platform for IME grant management and reporting, the execution of a robust medical education outcomes approach, effective relationship management of our IME Preferred Provider Network, implementation of our comprehensive call for grants approach, developing focused, high impact IME strategies per disease area, and ensuring strong external stakeholder engagement and thought leadership.

Collaborate with Key Stakeholders: Serve as a strategic partner within Medical Affairs + Health Impact (MHI