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.

AbbVie is committed to being an industry leader in accelerating the transformation of molecules to
medicines to maximize the value for patients and AbbVie. We must cultivate a collaborative
environment that encourages the co-creation of innovative solutions with our patients and
healthcare providers. In doing so, we will build high-value relationships and enable enhanced trial
experiences for our customers. This role is responsible for creating a customer centric strategy
aimed to develop a sustainable partnership model that empowers patients and healthcare providers
to consistently work with us to improve clinical trial awareness and attract underserved, diverse
populations of investigative sites and patients as well as enhance the patient and investigator trial
experience.

• This role is accountable for creating a vision and customer centric strategy that creates a collaborative internal work environment to connect patients and clinical sites with our study teams as well as elevate AbbVie’s external identity as a preferred partner committed to collaboration to accelerate medicines to our patients
• Develop and implement an internal and external communication plan that raises our profile and differentiates AbbVie as an innovator who demonstrates impactful changes to clinical development through collaboration with our customers
• Develop strategic direction to an adaptive approach to optimizing trial awareness that facilitates patient decision-making
• Drive the implementation of the clinical trial diversity and inclusion strategy aimed to attract underserved, diverse populations of investigator sites and patients in our clinical trials.
• Drive proactive communication and transparency to advance AbbVie’s EED&I efforts in our clinical research, both internally and externally.
• Drive alignment between the EED&I program and AbbVie’s business strategy. Continue to refine our clinical trial diversity and inclusion strategies based on analytics and ensuring every team has access to regional indication demographics, including AbbVie resources to help resolve previously identified diversity gaps.
• Effectively lead the team to develop industry-leading patient engagement capabilities and leverage cutting-edge resources to enable seamless integration of the patient and site perspective into clinical trial planning.
• Establish benchmarking within and outside AbbVie to determine industry leading patient-centered and clinical trial diversity solutions in support of AbbVie’s program.
• Identify and work cross-functionally to drive process improvements aligned to reinforce patient centricity and proactive management of diversity and inclusion in clinical trial operations.
• Actively participate in external forums focused on patient centricity and clinical trial diversity, to represent AbbVie in this space, but also to gather best practices to further enhance AbbVie’s strategy.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a scientific field required, Advanced degree is desirable.
• Minimum of 12 years + of pharma-related/clinical research experience or equivalent
• 10 years+ of patient recruitment, project management and people management (preferred)
• Advanced working knowledge of ICH and GCP guidelines required.
• Operational understanding of the global regulatory environment is desirable.
• Excellent collaborator and articulate communicator – easily build relationships across geographic locations and gains cross functional alignment.
• Ability to communicate persuasively with clarity, flexibility, and adaptability to changing requirements, resourcefulness, and creativity
• Strategic thinker with excellent business and financial aptitude, very analytical and uses data to drive the business and continuous improvements.

*Preference is for role to be office based at an AbbVie location, but may be potential for the role to be remote.

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

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• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

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