Associate Director, Decision Support Group

Company Description

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 immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Provide advanced analytical support for teams, portfolio and Long Range Plan (LRP) planning processes.
• Facilitate and lead project teams on single-asset decision or other strategic analysis projects.
• Apply the methods of decision analysis and other analytic best practices to structure the decision problem, analyze the data, and develop results and insights.
• Facilitate/manage decision team meetings to effectively convey and obtain information necessary for successful completion of analyses.
• Facilitate and contribute to the development and execution of processes, timelines, tools and templates for Plan Portfolio / LRP data collection, as well as other decision and strategic analyses.
• Construct strategic models/dashboards to accurately reflect technical and commercial attributes of a project / asset for Plan Portfolio and LRP.
• Utilize knowledge of Decision Analysis and Operations Research literature and attend and contribute to conferences and symposia on DA and Portfolio Analysis.
• Discuss insights obtained with senior members of the Decision Support Group and decision team.
• Manage complex portfolio analysis and prioritization tools and databases such as LRP data files and databases, lead portfolio and LRP data aggregation.
• Provide advanced facilitation support for DSG-led team and management meetings (prepare meeting materials, record information gathered at meetings, and write-up minutes/action items); archive assessments, rationale, assumptions and other pertinent information.
• Utilize latest tools and techniques in decision analysis / portfolio analysis.
• Responsible for successful completion of modeling, analytical and facilitation assignments in timely manner.
• Accountable for quality, flexibility, and user-friendliness of complex models, and for quality of portfolio database and tools.
• Design complex decision analysis models to reflect technical and commercial interactions of a project / asset utilizing decision analysis techniques such as Monte Carlo and Decision Tree analyses, sensitivity analysis, waterfall, and tornado charts.
• Responsible for large-scale data analysis involving the integration of next generation sequencing data and health or pharmacological databases.
• Responsible for developing and executing custom computational analysis plans leveraging novel algorithms and relevant databases.
• Responsible for successful completion of modeling, analytical and facilitation assignments utilizing modeling and database software such as PowerPoint, Excel, Enrich, Tree Plan, ThinkCell and Crystal Ball.

Qualifications

Must possess a Masters or foreign academic equivalent in Biological Sciences, Decision Sciences, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, or a closely related field with at least two (2) years of related progressive experience in:

1. 1. managing complex portfolio analysis and prioritization tools and databases such as LRP data files and databases, lead portfolio and LRP data aggregation;
   2. (ii) designing complex decision analysis models to reflect technical and commercial interactions of a project / asset utilizing decision analysis techniques such as Monte Carlo and Decision Tree analyses, sensitivity analysis, waterfall, and tornado charts; and
   3. (iii) completion of modeling, analytical and facilitation assignments utilizing modeling and database software such as PowerPoint, Excel, Enrich, Tree Plan, ThinkCell and Crystal Ball.

Apply online at https://careers.abbvie.com/en. Refer to Req ID: REF22832Y.

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Additional Information

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 short-term and long-term incentive programs.

AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVies policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.