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 Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

Purpose

To enable AbbVie’s emergence as a world class R&D organization, this position leads the development and oversees execution of programmatic patient recruitment strategies for a therapeutic area built on a solid understanding of the patient, leveraging cutting-edge recruitment resources and resulting in successful acceleration of clinical trial recruitment. Position develops and implements a multi-year TA/program recruitment strategy to establish effective recruitment planning and solutions for current and future pipeline products. Position is also accountable for benchmarking and key performance indicators related to recruitment tactics and maximizing return on investment, driving continuous improvement to achieve world class clinical execution.

Responsibilities

• Leads cross functional collaboration establishing a strong understanding of the patient and global standard of care, leveraging relevant external and internal insights, and translating into actionable global recruitment and retention strategies to achieve study commitments

• Leads utilization of “Big Data” resources to inform clinical development programs, including site and patient geostrategy, patient inclusion/exclusion criteria, and patient recruitment and retention strategies

• Drives the application of risk-based thinking to clinical trial recruitment, identifying risks and establishing effective mitigation strategies to enable successful execution of the therapeutic area portfolio, and to establish effective programmatic strategies and resources to build for future success

• Champions the application of patient- and investigator-centric thinking within the clinical programs, ensuring that programs are seeking and incorporating insights from key external stakeholders in clinical development and study planning

• Ensures the Patient Recruitment and Retention organization is operating in compliance with ICH GCP Guidelines, AbbVie Quality System and local and worldwide regulatory requirements;

• Keeps up to date on emerging and changing technologies, regulations, policies, and approaches with regards to patient recruitment

• Supports the development, maintenance, and effective training of the organization on patient recruitment and site engagement related standard operating procedures and policies.

• Accountable for multi-year resource planning, budgeting and recruitment model/strategy to meet the needs of the therapeutic area(s) and drive cost efficiencies

• Serves as the Therapeutic area expert on industry best practices related to patient recruitment and retention. Represents AbbVie at external conferences regarding patient recruitment and retention

• Fosters a culture of continuous process improvement. Growth and development of direct reports

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a scientific field required, Advanced degree is desirable

• Minimum of 10 years + of pharma-related/clinical research experience or equivalent

• 6 years + of patient recruitment project management and people management (preferred)

• Advanced working knowledge of ICH and GCP guidelines is required

• Operational understanding of the global regulatory environment is desirable

• Excellent collaborator and articulate communicator – easily builds relationships across geographic locations and gains cross functional alignment

• Strategic thinker with excellent business and financial aptitude, very analytical and uses data to drive the business and continuous improvements

Additional Information

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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