Director, Diversity and Patient Inclusion

Summary

Join AbbVie, a leader in pharmaceutical innovation, as we seek a highly experienced professional to spearhead our customer-centric clinical trial strategy. This crucial role demands the development and implementation of internal and external communication plans to enhance AbbVie's reputation as a collaborative partner. You will be responsible for driving diversity and inclusion initiatives within clinical trials, optimizing trial awareness, and fostering seamless integration of patient and site perspectives. The ideal candidate possesses a strong scientific background, extensive experience in clinical research and patient recruitment, and exceptional leadership and communication skills. This position offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in a scientific field
• Minimum of 12 years + of pharma-related/clinical research experience or equivalent
• Advanced working knowledge of ICH and GCP guidelines

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree
• 10 years+ of patient recruitment, project management and people management
• Operational understanding of the global regulatory environment
• 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

Benefits

• Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick)
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Short-term incentive programs
• Long-term incentive programs