AbbVie Posted November 6, 2026

Associate Director, Analytics and Performance Excellence (APEX) Specialty PCS

Mettawa, IL Full-time
Data & Digital Associate Director
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About this opportunity

Company Description

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.

Job Description

The Associate Director, APEX Specialty PCS will design, implement, manage, analyze, and effectively communicate insights generation activities in support of assigned franchise/brand, including market research, analytics, and competitive intelligence. The individual will derive high-impact learnings using many sources/techniques, lead key internal initiatives, and partner across teams and organizations to inform strategic and tactical decision-making. The ability to influence decisions based upon careful and strategic thinking and understanding of the business is critical to success.

Responsibilities:

• Act as intelligence partner across Specialty PCS, focused on providing strategic insights, forming a trusted relationship, and staying abreast of commercial issues and burgeoning trends within Specialty therapeutic categories.

• Be conversant with custom research methods, adept at supplier and stakeholder management, and able to independently lead custom research projects that deliver compelling and actionable learnings.

• Perform thought-provoking and sophisticated syntheses of learning across research, analytics, and market intelligence sources to develop actionable insights and recommendations that shape strategies and tactics.

• Maintain organizational knowledge of the market, competitive trends, and industry developments and effectively communicate this knowledge to internal stakeholders.

• Design and execute measurement plans, inclusive of selected operational and performance indicators, to ensure the organization’s understanding of execution of, engagement with, and impact of in market tactics.

• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure insights across Commercial and R&D are leveraged appropriately to inform strategic and tactical decisions. Build strong relationships as a team player, while maintaining objectivity and lack of bias to represent the voice of the customer.

• Demonstrate thoughtful confidence in presentation of learnings across all levels of the organization.

• Leverage internal resources, external vendors, and AI to maximize learnings and accelerate AbbVie’s understanding of key therapeutic categories within Specialty.

• Monitor and manage research and analytics programs within budget and identify opportunities for cost savings where appropriate.

• Ensure all research and analytics activities are conducted in accordance with financial and ethical compliance guidelines.

Qualifications

• BA or BS degree required. Advanced degree (MA, MS, MBA, PhD) preferred.

• ~10 years relevant marketing research, analytics, or competitive intelligence experience required.

• Experience in pharmaceutical industry and pharmaceutical data (physician-level prescribing, institutional sales data, payer-prescriber-level data, formulary data, patient-level data, etc.) preferred. Experience in CPG or other consumer-facing industries also a plus.

• Analytical reasoning abilities, intellectual curiosity, strong business acumen, superior organizational skills, meticulous attention to detail, and creativity in problem-solving.

• Ability to interact effectively with/present to (verbally and in writing) all levels of the organization.

• Proven experience as an integral member of a high-performing work team.

• Experience with and strong aptitude navigating a heavily matrixed and fast-paced environment.

• Strong leadership skills and the ability to collaborate effectively cross-functionally within the organization and with external agencies.

• Demonstrated project management skills.

• Experience with and strong aptitude navigating a heavily matrixed and fast-paced environment.

• Strong leadership skills and the ability to collaborate effectively cross-functionally within the organization and with external agencies.

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 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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Job details

Seniority
Associate Director
Function
Data & Digital
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Mettawa, IL
Employment type
Full-time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Data & Digital role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 337 comparable Associate Director Data & Digital roles across 65 biopharma companies.

337Comparable roles tracked
313Currently active
65Companies hiring similar roles
35Countries represented

Salary context

101 of 337 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject $141,500/yr – $268,500/yr
Lowest disclosed · Sr. Data Analyst · Johnson & Johnson $79,000/yr – $127,650/yr
Peer group range $103,325 – $252,000 (median $180,500)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 337 comparable roles

United States146
India76
United Kingdom11
Japan10
Spain10
Poland10

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Seniority mix

337 of 337 peers have a known seniority level

Manager158
Senior111
Associate Director68

Therapeutic area mix

19 of 337 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology11
Rare Disease2
Neuroscience2
Respiratory1
Immunology1
Vaccines & Infectious Disease1
Dermatology & Aesthetics1

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