AbbVie Posted September 22, 2026

Director, Global Allergan Aesthetics Forecasting

Irvine, CA Full-time
Marketing Dermatology & Aesthetics Director
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About this opportunity

Company Description

About AbbVie

At Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie company, we develop, manufacture, and market a portfolio of leading aesthetics brands and products. Our aesthetics portfolio includes facial injectables, body contouring, plastics, skin care, and more. Our goal is to consistently provide our customers with innovation, education, exceptional service, and a commitment to excellence, all with a personal touch. For more information, visit https://global.allerganaesthetics.com/. Follow Allergan Aesthetics on LinkedIn.

Job Description

The Director, Global Allergan Aesthetics (AA) Forecasting is the interface between the Pipeline Commercialization & Strategy (PCS) team, the AA Finance team and the Global CoE Forecasting team. Key responsibilities include establishing and leading P&L modeling and forecasting standards for Allergan Aesthetics pipeline and business opportunities, designing and coordinating planning processes for the pipeline, driving deployment of methodology and tools to align AA methodologies with enterprise standards.

Core Job Responsibilities

P&L Modeling, Methodology & Business Development

Own P&L modeling for Allergan Aesthetics pipeline assets and business development opportunities, delivering consistent, transparent, and decision-useful outputs.

Partner with PCS, PCS Forecasting, Operations, and R&D to model development spend, timing, resource requirements, and commercial economics appropriately. Collaborate with PCS Forecasting on the revenue assumptions and build a P&L and finance metrics to be reviewed with management. Document financial assumptions.

Pressure-test asset profitability through robust scenarios, sensitivities, and realistic assumptions across development, launch, and lifecycle stages.

Leverage and adapt AbbVie Therapeutic pipeline P&L models to establish an AA standard; develop, maintain, and document methodology for spend modelling.

Support Business Development activities by modelling the P&L, developing resourcing assumptions and support the documentation of the assumptions, both commercial and financial.

Planning Cycle Integration & Stakeholder Partnership

Partner with Global AA FP&A, US Finance, and PCS Forecasting to establish repeatable planning-cycle processes, with primary emphasis on the Long-Range Plan (LRP).

Define timelines, roles, deliverables, review points, and handoffs that meet Finance deadlines and enable well-controlled execution.

Align assumptions, methodologies, and outputs across AA Global Finance, US and International Finance, PCS Forecasting, R&D, and corporate partners; drive effective handover into downstream planning and reporting.

Identify process gaps and lead improvements that strengthen quality, efficiency, transparency, and cycle-time performance.

Forecasting Tools, Harmonization & Innovation

Support harmonization and standardization of AA forecasting tools, templates, and processes to promote consistency and ease of use across teams and planning cycles.

Interface between AA Finance and the Global Forecasting Center of Excellence to align AA models, tools, and methodologies with enterprise standards. In particular, support AI-enabled modeling and the Forecast Horizon platform within AA.

Serve as AA’s point of contact for forecasting methodology, P&L modeling standards, and related tools; provide training, documentation, communications, and governance.

Monitor emerging capabilities and recommend enhancements based on business needs and evolving enterprise capabilities.

Leadership & Influence

Lead through influence in a complex matrixed environment, aligning stakeholders around common standards, assumptions, timelines, and decisions.

Build trusted partnerships with Finance, PCS, Operations, R&D, Business Development, and Global Forecasting COE colleagues.

Provide constructive challenge while maintaining analytical rigor and a practical, solutions-oriented approach.

Model AbbVie’s Ways of Working and foster accountability, transparency, quality, and continuous improvement.

Reporting

This position reports within Global Allergan Aesthetics Finance to the VP Finance.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business, Data Science, or a related field; advanced degree strongly preferred.

12+ years of relevant experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, consumer health, aesthetics, or life sciences, including substantial finance, forecasting, business analytics, and strategic decision-support experience.

Experience partnering with business in a dynamic and complex matrix organization.

Experience leading or materially contributing to enterprise planning cycles with defined timelines and downstream dependencies.

Ability to establish modeling standards, document methodology, develop guidance, and drive adoption across stakeholder groups.

Experience with forecasting tools, financial modeling platforms, or technology-enabled planning solutions;

Strong communication, stakeholder management, prioritization, and problem-solving skills.

Demonstrated ability to influence effectively, constructively challenge assumptions, and explain complex models to senior finance and non-finance audiences.

Preferred

Experience in pharmaceuticals, medical devices, or businesses with complex pipeline and lifecycle economics.

Experience with AbbVie or comparable enterprise pipeline modeling standards and governance processes.

Experience with AI/ML forecasting, or purpose-built forecasting and planning platforms. Experience with data, visualization, or automation tools such as SQL, Python, Power BI, SAS, or similar.

International or multi-geography finance and forecasting experience, including leadership of teams or complex workstreams.

Key Leadership Competencies

Drive Operational Excellence, Establish disciplined, scalable modeling and planning practices that improve quality, transparency, and execution across AA forecasting cycles.

Lead at Scale, Create alignment across a complex global matrix by setting clear standards, priorities, governance, and ways of working.

Build Strong Relationships, Develop trusted partnerships across Finance, PCS, Operations, R&D, Business Development, and enterprise forecasting teams.

Clear & Courageous Communication, Translate complex assumptions, model outputs, risks, and recommendations into clear, actionable messages; respectfully challenge when needed.

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.​

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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Job details

Seniority
Director
Function
Marketing
Therapeutic area
Dermatology & Aesthetics
Location
Irvine, CA
Employment type
Full-time

How this role compares

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

We currently track 202 comparable Director Marketing roles across 52 biopharma companies.

202Comparable roles tracked
185Currently active
52Companies hiring similar roles
16Countries represented

Salary context

93 of 202 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 $160,500/yr – $305,000/yr
Lowest disclosed · Director, Global Marketing – Selatogrel · Mylan Inc. $112,000/yr – $236,000/yr
Highest disclosed · Sr. Director, Global Brand & Portfolio Management · Seqirus USA Inc $287,000/yr – $352,000/yr
Peer group range $174,000 – $319,500 (median $240,000)

Where these roles are based

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United States168
United Kingdom7
China6
Spain5
Netherlands3
Italy2

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Seniority mix

202 of 202 peers have a known seniority level

Director159
Senior Director41
Principal2

Therapeutic area mix

41 of 202 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology20
Neuroscience6
Rare Disease5
Immunology3
Dermatology & Aesthetics2
Cardiovascular / CVRM2
Gastroenterology1
Vaccines & Infectious Disease1
Respiratory1

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