Director, Patient Inclusion

Summary

Join AbbVie's Clinical Development Operations (CDO) as a Director, Patient Inclusion, reporting to the Director II, Patient Inclusion. Enhance patient access and integrate global patient insights by developing strategies for creating global disease area patient and care-partner councils. Identify and operationalize strategic business capabilities to advance trial equity and improve patient experience. Work cross-functionally to integrate global patient insights into asset strategies. Lead the design and implementation of cross-functional strategic initiatives embedding inclusive patient engagement into R&D decision-making. Serve as a strategic advisor, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and regulatory guidance. Partner with R&D teams and enterprise strategy leads to ensure capabilities are actionable and scalable. Lead initiatives to champion enterprise-wide adoption of inclusive practices. Integrate new capabilities into business workflows. Provide oversight for embedding patient engagement into the Pipeline Commercialization Model. Lead functional readiness related to new legal, regulatory, compliance, and policy guidance. Partner with senior leadership on KPI development and impact reporting.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required, Advanced degree is desirable
• Minimum of 10 years + of pharma-related/clinical research experience or equivalent
• Advanced working knowledge of ICH and GCP guidelines required
• 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

Responsibilities

• Enhance Patient Access & Integrate Global Patient Insights
• Develop business strategy for the creation of global disease area patient and care-partner councils in priority indications to enable direct access to patient voice across R&D
• Identify, develop and operationalize strategic business capabilities (e.g., insight integration, supplier sourcing, engagement frameworks) that advance trial equity ,to ensure clinical trial patients reflect the global and varied real work populations living with the disease, enhance participant experience, and improve feasibility
• Work cross functionally to develop business strategy for integrating global patient insights into asset strategies to enhance patient access to clinical trials and ensure that AbbVie’s treatments appropriately address the varied needs of patients
• Strategic Initiatives & Business Capability Development
• Lead the design and implementation of cross-functional strategic initiatives that embed inclusive patient engagement into R&D decision-making and enterprise processes
• Serve as a strategic advisor and capability lead, ensuring that the Patient Inclusion function aligns with evolving enterprise priorities, regulatory guidance, and drug development milestones
• Enterprise Integration & Strategic Collaboration
• Serve as a strategic partner to R&D disease area teams, clinical operations, and enterprise strategy leads to ensure capabilities are actionable, scalable, and aligned to development priorities
• Lead initiatives that assess and champion enterprise-wide adoption of inclusive practices through frameworks, tools, and platforms that democratize patient insights and improve strategic foresight
• Integrate new capabilities developed within Patient Inclusion into business workflows by aligning with drug development milestones, governance structures, and therapeutic area priorities across the enterprise
• Operational Excellence & Regulatory Readiness
• Provide oversight for embedding patient engagement into the Pipeline Commercialization Model, with clear connection points to disease area strategy, program design, and launch readiness
• Lead functional readiness related to new legal, regulatory, compliance and policy guidance, as it relates to standard operating procedures and policies related to clinical development
• Understand the evolving needs of the team, appropriately prioritizing demands, selecting appropriate solutions, tools and platforms to be deployed to drive executional excellence of patient engagement activities
• Partner with Senior Leadership on KPI development, progress tracking, and impact reporting to executive stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• 10 years+ of project management and people management (preferred)
• Operational understanding of the global regulatory environment is desirable

Benefits

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