Associate Director, Training and Development US Market Access

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 ~~~. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

Reporting to the Director of US Market Access Learning and Development, the Associate Director of US Market Access Learning and Development (L&D), shares the responsible for: All aspects of the MA L&D Strategy, for a sub-set of the branded portfolio of products, plus all above brand a non-branded training activities required across all US Market Access Field Teams.

• Defines L&D priorities with MAx VPs, GMs, SDs and RDs for their respective teams to include: product, competency & skill development and US market landscape training.

• Serves as a trusted and credible advisor to the MA Field Leadership, MA Marketing Leaders, cross-functional partners, and colleagues

• Works with AbbVie's Commercial and Medical subject matter experts to build educational and training solutions under the 3 key pillars of Product, Marketplace, and Skills & Competencies

• Works seamlessly with marketing and sales leadership to design and deliver engaging application training for branded, above-brand and unbranded approaches

• Shares responsibility for Market Access training strategy formation and delivery, platform administration and training compliance documentation across a subset of the total brands (~15 brands) in the following TAs; Immunology, Eye Care, Anti-viral and Anti-infective

• Expert in designing curriculum using adult learning principals to engage the learners and enhance the MA Field Team's executional excellence

• Engages with stakeholders to gain feedback on existing programs and makes the appropriate adjustments to advance the quality of the training

• Manages and optimizes training platforms, meetings, conferences, and budgets

• Manages, models and builds strong and credible partnerships, and networks, with AbbVie partners and industry experts. Leverages relationships to co-create industry leading educational materials. Consistently demonstrates positive AbbVie Ways of Working

• Provides expert-driven content solutions that maintain an exceptional base of access value-chain expertise and marketplace stakeholder dynamics

• Develops experiences that develop selling capabilities and Strategic Account Management, from financial business acumen to multi-person negotiations, and short & mid-term strategic and tactical account planning

• Maintains superior knowledge of US market access landscape dynamics, keeping self and team up to date on current and emergent trends

• Ensures team and/or own activities are executed compliantly and with the requisite review, approvals, oversight and documentation. Works in partnership with OEC/Legal and the materials review team to get materials reviewed and approved

• Flexes team or own approach in anticipation of commercial strategy changes and/or marketplace changes

• Effectively leads and partners with their direct report, the Manager, MAx L&D

• Fosters a culture that balances collaboration, high-performance and wellbeing

• Consistently demonstrates positive AbbVie Ways of Working

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required. MBA, or relevant master's degree strongly preferred

• 5+ Years in Biopharma or Medical Device sales/or market access/or marketing/or patient services/or medical affairs/ or Training and Development role/ or MA eco-system job experience, or 7+ years in an industry-based strategic program leadership, Process Improvement, or Business/Commercial Excellence role

• Fluency in use of Microsoft Teams meeting platform, advanced use of PowerPoint and Excel

Desirable Career Experiences

• Market Access experience (MA Field B2B Sales, MA Marketing, Medical Affairs (Value and Access) or a previous role supporting MA, such as MA T&D, C&P, Market Access Insights, or MA eco-system job experience)

• Product/Sales training and/or training management experience

• AbbVie Immunology experience. This AD and their direct report will support The Blue Team portfolio which includes our Immunology portfolio

• Market Access Marketing or Brand Marketing Experience

• Pharma. Sales and/or sales leadership experience (RD, NSM, DM, etc.)

• Competency/Skill curriculum design/leadership development experience

• Career experiences that demonstrate powerful presentation and influencing skills up and across the stakeholder continuum, gaining buy-in at various stakeholder levels, including executive leaders

• Experience working with consulting firms and/or creative agencies in the development of training strategy and curriculum/content

• Should have demonstrated career history of people leadership, including evidence of inspiring, developing, and motivating others

• Should have developed and led a high-performing team and a clear preference for coaching for development in pursuit of success, with talent management experience

• Experience in the planning of successful commercial product launch and/or business optimization strategies in Biopharma or access landscape entities, with large program project management

• The ideal candidate would also already be familiar with AbbVie and our systems, processes, etc.

This role is based out of AbbVie's Mettawa, IL office and requires the individual to be on-site a minimum of 3 days per work week.

Additional Information

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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?

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. ?

AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie's policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.