Associate Director, Ventures

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 X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.
Job Description
AbbVie Ventures represents the strategic investment arm of the company and a core component of AbbVie’s integrated approach to external innovation. We invest in early-stage transformational scientific opportunities that augment our core R&D areas within oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmology, and aesthetics. We invest proactively to access transformative early-stage science, exceptional talent, and emerging biotech ecosystems.
Our investments and interactions with fellow investors, scientists, physicians, and entrepreneurs provide us insights into novel biology and technologies that result in targeted enhancement of our scientific knowledge as well as early assessments of potential future business development opportunities. Our broad and deep expertise in drug discovery, development, manufacturing, and commercialization is a valuable resource to even the earliest stage companies. Through this proactive engagement with the scientific community, we are building our reputation as a committed leader in the biotechnology ecosystem, while supplementing our R&D pipeline in a capital-efficient manner.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Advanced degree in the life sciences (PhD, MD, MD/PhD) with at least 3-5 years of postgraduate experience. Drug discovery experience is preferred, but not required, with ability to work across all other AbbVie relevant core areas of interest (oncology, neuroscience, immunology, ophthalmology, aesthetics).
• Investment experience in early-stage life science is preferred (focus on pre-Seed through Series B, including business incubation/company creation).
• Good understanding of the drug discovery and development, regulatory, and commercialization process for evaluation of pharmaceutical opportunities; should have rigorous scientific knowledge to objectively evaluate potential business opportunities.
• Exceptional talent and organizational skills to evaluate target opportunities and produce high quality analyses. Ability to drive projects to deliver timely results and follow through on commitments.
• Strong communication skills to effectively communicate business strategies and capabilities internally and externally, present individual and team recommendations clearly and concisely, and promote cross-functional communication.
• An established network and personal brand in the biopharma community preferred. Proactive and engaging social and networking skills to reach out to a broad range of industry decision makers to keep abreast of emerging opportunities.
• Candidate must be able to act independently without daily onsite managerial supervision. This role may be based in the United Kingdom or continental Europe. The role will require domestic and international travel of ~25%.
  Additional Information
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