Jobs for People with MS: National MS Society

Company Description

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Job Description

The Director, Schizophrenia Monotherapy Lead will prepare the go-to-market plan for a novel schizophrenia treatment in the United States. Primary responsibilities include leading: (1) refinement of the monotherapy opportunity and sharpening the competitive value proposition, (2) positioning the product and creating a compelling brand story and evidence plan, (3) creation of messaging, tactics, and programs, (4) launch planning and execution, and (5) career development of a team of marketers that will grow as the product progresses through key milestones towards launch.

Reporting to the Schizophrenia Planning Lead, the Monotherapy Lead will also co-lead the cross-functional Integrated Brand Team (IBT), collaborating with multiple teams, including R&D, Market Access, and Patient Services drive both launch planning and execution.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Lead development of the strategic and tactical launch plans for the US monotherapy indication

• Lead delivery of best-in-class messaging, tactics, and marketing programs in a highly competitive market

• Design and shape evidence generation plans in partnership with R&D colleagues

• Participate in cross-functional governance meetings, including launch prep and follow-up activities

• Develop compelling presentations to convey strategies to broad sets of stakeholder audiences, including senior executives, cross-functional leadership teams, and cross-functional partners for understanding and support of launch and development plans

• Management of a growing team of direct and expanded reports and an increasing budget as the product nears launch

Qualifications

Qualifications

• BA/BS required; MBA preferred

• At least 10 years of pharmaceutical or healthcare marketing experience; psychiatry or mental health care-focused marketing or consulting experience strongly preferred

• Significant experience with launch planning, either new products or new indications

• Strong analytical and strategic marketing skills

• A successful track record of ascending responsibility

• Demonstrates the ability to communicate ideas & make the complex easy for others to understand.

• Builds strong relationships with peers and cross functional partners

• Executes highly effective working team meetings with internal and external partners and is visibly inclusive and transparent.

• Works collaboratively and proactively, maintains high degree of planning, coordination & project management skills, demonstrated ability to problem solve & resolve conflict with diplomacy.

• Self-starter, learns fast, quickly grasps the essence of concepts, can change course rapidly where required, demonstrates intellectual curiosity.

• Open to suggestion & experimentation for improvement, embraces ideas from others, encourages innovation but matches innovation to reality.

• Exhibits strong emotional intelligence, diplomacy, maintenance of confidentiality, maturity, and organizational savvy.

LEADERSHIP SKILLS: For this role, we're looking for a leader who is:

• Excellence Focused; Optimistic; Open and Authentic; Innovative

Additional Information

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

• 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.