Associate Director, Marketing Compliance

at  AbbVie

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
The Associate Director of Marketing Compliance is responsible for leading a team to monitor, advise and direct compliant execution of non-personal promotion and market research in the US Commercial business. This role will enforce compliance and adherence to all marketing materials developed and deployed in non-personal media including direct mail, home office and third-party email, HCP and consumer websites, and social media. Will also direct monitoring and investigation of all US Commercial material review incidents, identifying root causes, ensuring mitigation and recommending remediation to impact and reduce future incidents and errors in all promotional materials developed for use in personal and non-personal promotion.
This is a hybrid position with the ability to come to our Mettawa, IL office at least 3 days per week.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree required
• 8+ years’ experience in pharmaceutical / healthcare environment with demonstrated success in marketing, compliance, legal or related functions
• Knowledge of applicable regulations and standards affecting Pharmaceutical Products
• Strategic thinking & business planning skills, necessary to diagnose needs, develop, direct, and influence commercial executional excellence focused on reducing risk for the US Commercial business and AbbVie
• Project management experience, managing cross-functional teams and/or external partners through large projects or initiatives
• Knowledge of material review procedures and processes or experience in media and marketing operations
• Experience in negotiations with compliance professionals and influencing without authority within cross functional teams responsible for adhering, monitoring and executing against policies and procedures in the pharmaceutical business
• People leadership experience
  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.
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• Building effective relationships to work collaboratively with US Commercial Leaders, US Commercial Compliance, Marketing Operations, MABI and TA&O and Cross-functional partners and other groups leading US Commercial Compliance initiatives or decisions made by OEC, Legal and Senior US Commercial or Executive leadership.
• Responsible for establishing governance and oversight of compliant market research practices by MABI within TA&O in US Commercial; this includes monitoring of market research execution and proper payment of honoraria. Leads mitigation and remediation of market research incidents and errors.
• Responsible for intake, training and communication of new non-personal brand initiatives and convention marketing and advisor board practices approved by OEC and/or that require monitoring and marketing implementation.
• Partnering with USCC Leadership and OEC to analyze key material review compliance metrics and recommend effective ways of conveying the data in a compelling way that is clear and resonates with Senior US Commercial, Legal and OEC Leadership
• With US Commercial Compliance colleagues, Marketing Operations and TA&O responsible for developing innovative approaches to material review incident assessment, KPI development and novel methods mitigation and remediation of all errors and incidents associated with non-personal and personal promotional materials.
• With OEC, The Digital Lab, BTS and the media team investigate, report, mitigate, remediate all incidents and errors associated with distribution of non-personal promotion to HCPs and consumers through any print or digital collateral.
• Leading, coaching and developing a team to execute against the key responsibilities of the department as indicated above.