Job Description

The associate director of scientific patient advocacy is part of the medical affairs team and supports AbbVie’s commitment to build strong relationships with the patient advocacy communities focusing on lung and blood cancers (MM, MDS, FL, MF). This role requires working closely to align goals, objectives, and strategies with colleagues across communications, commercial, medical affairs, legal and compliance to ensure key regulatory/data milestones and activities are communicated with patient communities regionally and nationally.

Develops and implements advocacy strategies aligned to corporate and business objectives

Establish, maintain, and enhance strategic relationships with relevant or prioritized patient advocacy, professional medical societies and policy organizations. Identify & direct activities based on business priorities and create mutually beneficial relationships.  Represent AbbVie at key patient advocacy, professional medical and policy meetings and provide updates to management.

Develops a proactive approach to managing and enhancing company’s relationships with patient communities; builds strong, mutually productive relationships and provides compliant guidance to existing and/or evolving patient organizations

Provide strategic insight and coordination within AbbVie for relevant meetings with professional societies and to assist with decision making.

Identify, develop, and advance collaborative programs and initiatives with patient/HCP organizations at the national level as well as finding local opportunities that forward mutual goals and establish AbbVie as a preferred partner

Facilitates patient engagement including input in oncology trials, works closely with the trial teams to identify opportunities for patient involvement in research studies, manage patient engagement meetings, promote tools, training and communication to create more awareness within AbbVie

Drive and embed a patient-centric mindset and engagement in the oncology medical affairs team and activities by incorporating patient insights, advising on patient unmet needs

Build strong, collaborative relationships with team members in communications, medical affairs, commercial, clinical, legal and compliance.

Ensure cross-functional collaboration with medical, commercial, clinical, and other key stakeholders to optimally manage relationships to ensure alignment and effective execution of patient advocacy strategy/objectives.

Routinely evaluates opportunities to enhance AbbVie’s visibility in relevant initiatives and build AbbVie ’s reputation for innovative partnerships

Stays current with relevant information and resources regarding pharma related legislation; provides updates regularly to management

Strategically manages budgets for sponsorships/grants to patient organizations

Anticipates and recognizes patient advocacy/policy trends, and implications for AbbVie and brings these insights back to the therapeutic area

Develops and applies evaluative outcomes and insights to programs and activities to monitor success

Creates systems and procedures by which to track and internally communicate advocacy relations/interactions

Ensure a strong connection between employees and the patient community, including identifying innovative and compliant ways for employees to connect/engage with the community