Associate Director, Field Tools & Analytics, Oncology

About AbbVie

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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com . Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook , Instagram , X and YouTube.

The Associate Director, Field Tools & Analytics owns the overall strategy, technology roadmap, and solution architecture for Oncology field tools that enable the sales organization to operate effectively across solid and liquid tumor brands. This role sets the long-range vision for field tools, determines platform and technology investments, and ensures tools scale with evolving brand and franchise needs. The Associate Director leads a team of two direct reports (Senior Manager and Manager, Field Tools & Analytics) who execute day-to-day operations against this strategy.

Responsibilities

Own and author the long-range strategic plan and multi-year technology roadmap for all Oncology field tools.; Set priorities for platform investment, retirement, and consolidation decisions based on franchise needs and ROI.; Anticipate future field force needs and proactively evolve the toolset ahead of business demand.; Architect end-to-end field tool solutions, defining system design, data flows, and integration points across CRM, analytics, and reporting platforms.; Set technical and business requirement standards, final approver on major system design decisions.; Partner with IT, BTS, and OEC to ensure architecture aligns with enterprise technology standards and compliance requirements.; Serve as the executive-level point of contact and escalation path across Sales Leadership, Commercial Operations, IT, Training, OEC, Legal, and Medical/Regulatory.; Provide final sign-off on business requirements, enhancement prioritization, and project scope for major initiatives.; Lead cross-functional governance forums to align technology decisions with brand and franchise strategy.; Directly manage and develop the Senior Manager and Manager, Field Tools & Analytics.; Ensure the team is resourced appropriately for current and future demand, delegate operational execution to direct reports.; Coach, mentor, and set clear goals/expectations, conduct performance management and career development.; Build and maintain trusted relationships with VPs, Sales Directors, and Analytics leadership.; Act as a credible, strategic advisor capable of influencing senior executives on technology direction and investment decisions without direct authority.

Requirements

BA/BS degree required, advanced degree preferred.; 8+ years of pharmaceutical or relevant industry experience, including experience setting technology strategy or architecting commercial solutions.; Demonstrated people leadership experience managing managers or senior individual contributors.; Strong executive presence, able to confidently advise Executive and Sales Leadership on strategic technology decisions.; Strategic and long-range planning; Enterprise solution architecture; Executive influence and communication; People leadership and talent development; Business acumen / financial analysis

Nice to have

Salesforce/Veeva CRM: strategic and architectural understanding of platform capability.; Data analytics platforms (Tableau, Power BI, QlikView) — ability to evaluate and select tools at an enterprise level.; SQL or equivalent database management — able to assess data architecture decisions.; Working knowledge of Python/R for evaluating analytical approaches (hands-on execution not required).