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Director, Enterprise Strategy & Planning - APS
Company: AbbVie
Location: Mettawa, IL
Employment Type: Full Time
Date Posted: 05/08/2026
Job Categories: Advertising/Marketing/Public Relations, Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical, Engineering, Finance/Economics, Information Technology, Sales, Science, Executive Management, Quality Control
Job Description
Director, Enterprise Strategy & Planning - APS

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 atwww.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie onLinkedIn,Facebook,Instagram,XandYouTube.


Job Description

The Director, Enterprise Strategy & Planning serves as the enterprise strategy lead for AbbVie Patient Services (APS), sitting within the Enterprise Strategy & Future Capabilities team. Patient Services plays a critical role in helping ensure patients can access and stay on therapy through coordinated support, operational excellence, and crossfunctional alignment.

With an increasing number of launches, patient support programs, and enterprise initiatives underway, this role provides strategic direction, operational leadership, and execution discipline to ensure APS priorities are clearly defined, well sequenced, and delivered with impact.

This position leads the key strategic and financial business planning cycles to drive strong business performance and cross-team coordination, including the Financial Plan and LRP process and annual Strategic Plan. The role requires strong marketing acumen, including fluency in AbbVies 175 framework, enterprise positioning, and strategic narrative development to ensure APS priorities are aligned to brand, franchise, and enterprise strategies.

The Director serves as a strategic partner to leadership, turning enterprise priorities into action, anticipating needs, and keeping work aligned across levels. A key skill in this role is being a strong connector and influencer knowing who to engage, how to bring people together, and how to move things forward.

This role also plays a key role in leading enterprise change management and transformation efforts across APS, ensuring new operating models, ways of working, and strategic initiatives are adopted effectively and delivered with sustained impact.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the enterprise strategy lead for APS, owning enterprise-wide alignment across Therapeutic Business Units and Functions to ensure priorities are clearly understood, coordinated, and executed.
  • Lead APS enterprise strategy formation and execution, translating longrange strategic imperatives into annual priorities, goals, and actionable plans while maintaining enterpriselevel visibility to track progress and inform course correction, and ensuring strategic initiatives translate into measurable operational effectiveness and efficiency.
  • Operate as a central connector across APS leadership, Therapeutic Business Units, and key enterprise partners (e.g., Finance, Brand, Global, Brand Excellence, Business Communications), working fluidly up, down, and across the organization to ensure strategy, planning, and execution remain tightly integrated.
  • Develop executivelevel presentations and decisionready materials for the Vice President, Patient Services and provides strategic counsel to set the agenda for staff and extended leadership meetings to ensure strategic initiatives and goal attainment are pulled through.
  • Own APS enterprise planning and financial cycles endtoend, including LBE, Annual Planning, LRP, and Investment Allocation, ensuring disciplined prioritization, sequencing, and resource allocation aligned to strategic and performance objectives.
  • Lead the APS enterprise Investment Allocation process in partnership with Finance and APEX, owning enterpriselevel tradeoff discussions and delivering decisionready recommendations with clear options, risks, and implications for leadership while ensuring disciplined allocation of resources across TBUs and initiatives.
  • Apply AbbVies 175 marketing framework to enterprise strategy and planning, ensuring APS strategies, positioning, and investment decisions are grounded in clear intent and value creation.

Key Stakeholders

  • Vice President, AbbVie Patient Services
  • AbbVie Patient Services Senior Leadership Team, direct and extended teams
  • Finance, APEX, Brand Excellence, Global EPE, and Business Communications partners

Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree in business, strategy, healthcare administration, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
  • 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise strategy, strategic operations, or business planning within pharma, biotech, or healthcare organizations.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in complex, matrixed environments, influencing outcomes across senior leaders, teams, and functions without direct authority.
  • Track record of leading complex, highvisibility enterprise initiatives and driving sustained adoption through change management and transformation.
  • Exceptional executive communication skills, including the ability to distill complexity into clear, succinct, and decisionready insights and materials.
  • Proven judgment, discretion, and ability to anticipate issues and manage competing priorities in fastpaced environments.
  • Proven experience leading enterprise or businessunit LongRange Planning (LRP), Annual Planning, and budget management, including investment prioritization and performancebased decision making.
  • Strong marketing and strategic positioning experience, including working knowledge of AbbVies 175 framework and its application at enterprise and brand levels.
  • Demonstrated ability to leverage internal AI and digital tools to accelerate synthesis, improve decision readiness, and drive productivity across enterprise strategy, planning, and executive communications.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state orlocal law:

  • The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at the timeof this posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemayultimatelypaymore or less than the posted range. This range may bemodifiedin thefuture.

  • We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.

  • This job is eligible toparticipatein our long-term incentiveprograms.

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employeeremainsin the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay bemodifiedat the Companys sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable 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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