AbbVie Posted September 25, 2026

Group Account Supervisor

Irvine, CA Full-time
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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

Pacific Communications, a division of AbbVie, is a full-service healthcare communications agency that brings strategy, creativity, and energy to every challenge. We partner with clients to launch and grow brands through innovative technology, marketing, and integrated communications solutions in both Therapeutic and Aesthetic business units. Our goal is to create Brave, Authentic, and Inspiring creative work that connects with audiences, moves brands forward, and makes a meaningful impact. Join a diverse and collaborative team that is passionate about doing great work, and having fun along the way.

As an Account Group Supervisor at Pacific Communications, you’ll provide strategic leadership across multiple brands, channels, or major client initiatives. You’ll guide integrated communications strategies, oversee launches and complex programs, build senior-level client partnerships, manage account-level financial performance, and align teams across the agency. You’ll also help develop senior account professionals and strengthen the agency’s broader relationship with clients.

This role is ideal for an experienced account leader who thrives on seeing the big picture while bringing people and ideas together. At Pacific, you’ll help shape high-impact work, lead meaningful client partnerships, and support a culture driven by passion and a commitment to creating Brave, Authentic, and Inspiring creative solutions.

Responsibilities:

Lead integrated account and brand strategy

Develop a deep understanding of assigned brands, disease states, products, audiences, competitors, and market dynamics.

Translate client objectives and market opportunities into integrated communications strategies, brand plans, critical issues, key strategic initiatives, creative platforms, and tactical recommendations across channels and brands.

Serve as the senior strategic client partner

Act as the primary agency contact for strategic questions, account priorities, and business guidance.

Build and maintain trusted relationships with key client stakeholders, including executive-level contacts when applicable.

Provide proactive partnership, anticipate client needs, and ensure agency recommendations and deliverables are aligned with client objectives and strategies.

Oversee major programs, launches, and communications initiatives

Lead new product and indication launches (when appliable), annual marketing plans, competitive initiatives, and major client programs.

Guide the development of meeting plans, agendas, content, workshops, mainstage presentations, field advisory boards, and other strategic communications activities.

Direct cross-functional agency collaboration and execution

Provide strategic direction to Account Services, Creative, Production, Media, Public Relations, , vendors, and other agency partners.

Lead strategic input and review meetings, align resources across workstreams, and ensure projects are executed on strategy, on time, within budget, and meet quality and review requirements.

Oversee account budgets and financial performance

Review and oversee annual budgets, estimates, expenditures, forecasts, and financial reporting across assigned brands

Provide accurate financial information to clients and agency leadership, establish appropriate budget guidelines, identify risks, and recommend adjustments based on business, market, or competitive conditions.

Lead and develop the account team

Set expectations, delegate responsibilities, and promote accountability across the account team. Manage Senior Account Executives, Account Executives, Account Supervisors, and other team members, helping them strengthen their strategic contribution, brand leadership, client-management skills, and readiness for increased responsibility.

Foster collaboration, continuous improvement, and high-quality client service.

Qualifications

Education and experience: Bachelor’s degree in advertising, marketing, communications, business, healthcare communications, or a related field, with 8 or more years of relevant agency, healthcare, pharmaceutical, or client-side experience. Equivalent experience may be considered.

Strategic and brand leadership: Demonstrated ability to develop integrated communications strategies, brand plans, creative platforms, tactical recommendations, and launch plans across multiple brands or channels.

Client relationship management: Proven success building trusted relationships with senior/executive-level clients, providing strategic counsel, managing expectations, and strengthening partnerships.

Integrated program leadership: Ability to oversee complex, multi-workstream programs involving multiple agency disciplines, deliverables, timelines, budgets, review requirements, and external partners.

Technology and systems: Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications. Experience with project-management, document-management, or workflow systems is a plus.

Professional attributes: Excellent communication, presentation, and relationship-management skills, with the ability to lead cross-functional teams, delegate effectively, and manage senior professionals. Highly organized, adaptable, analytical, collaborative, and detail-oriented, with strong judgment, strategic thinking, and the ability to manage competing priorities and confidential information.

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
Not listed
Function
Sales
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Irvine, CA
Employment type
Full-time

How this role compares

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

We currently track 3111 comparable Sales roles across 195 biopharma companies.

3111Comparable roles tracked
2907Currently active
195Companies hiring similar roles
75Countries represented

Salary context

733 of 3111 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function. This posting doesn't list a seniority level, so peers aren't narrowed by seniority either -- the range below may span more levels than usual.

This roleSubject $124,500/yr – $236,500/yr
Lowest disclosed · Inside Sales Representative · Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. $48,000/yr – $72,000/yr
Highest disclosed · Executive Director, National Sales Leader, Ophthalmology · Merck $255,800/yr – $402,700/yr
Peer group range $60,000 – $329,250 (median $145,550)

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United States1654
China435
Germany86
India84
Poland78
Vietnam60

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Seniority mix

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Manager719
Senior427
Director69
Associate Director20
Intern/Fellow/Postdoc12
Associate10
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Senior Director4
Principal1

Therapeutic area mix

842 of 3111 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology289
Cardiovascular / CVRM137
Neuroscience107
Dermatology & Aesthetics90
Immunology63
Rare Disease58
Respiratory40
Vaccines & Infectious Disease38
Gastroenterology14
Ophthalmology6

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