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Job Title: Director Global Strategy & Innovation
Company Name: AbbVie
Location: Irvine, CA
Position Type: Full Time
Post Date: 02/20/2026
Expire Date: 04/05/2026
Job Categories: Advertising/Marketing/Public Relations, Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical, Engineering, Finance/Economics, Information Technology, Sales, Science, Executive Management, Quality Control
Job Description
Director Global Strategy & Innovation

Company Description

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 of Strategy & Innovation will partner with individuals across Allergan Aesthetics to identify and tackle priority strategic projects, critical to the current and future business. Combines strategic thinking, analytic rigor, and project management skills to help define actionable solutions to complex problems. Coordinates across AbbVie and Allergan Aesthetic functions to bring together the best of the organizations, to enable the business to continue to advance aesthetic medicine and empower confidence in our customers and their patients.

The position requires strong analytical skills, as well as the ability to translate strategic vision into tactical actions, identify the highest impact ideas and plans, and focus efforts to enable cross-functional teams to deliver powerful results.


Qualifications

  • Partner with VP and executive level stakeholders to help answer key decisions that impact the current and future state of Allergan Aesthetics business
  • Act as a convener, bringing together colleagues from across functions to create and deliver consensus-driven solutions
  • Leverage knowledge and experience to understand the evolving treatment landscape, changing techniques, and unmet patient needs in the aesthetic medicine space, and their associated strategic implications
  • Create a structured approach and guide progress against multiple concurrent projects, driving the problem-solving process, supporting research and analytics, and distilling pragmatic recommendations
  • Owns follow-up actions for unresolved questions with appropriate sense of urgency. Completes follow-up informational calls, follow ups for next steps, emails and/or case updates to customers and sales representatives (when necessary) within service level requirements.
  • Performs leadership duties for and on behalf of the Executive Director and Head of Strategy & Innovation for Allergan Aesthetics
  • Demonstrates a passion for delivering impact and inspires by example
  • Stays current on all product knowledge and communicates directly with internal stakeholders to build knowledge, loyalty, and confidence in the Strategy & Innovation team
  • Maintains confidential information including, but not limited to, proprietary corporate information, specifications of products, product information, customer information and personal performance.

Education and Experience

  • Bachelors degree required
  • Master of Business Administration is preferred
  • Minimum of 10 years experience leading corporate or commercial strategy and execution for healthcare or pharmaceutical organizations required
  • Healthcare and pharma industry experience at a project manager level within a top-tier strategic consulting firm preferred

Skills, Experience, and Competencies:

  • Proven ability to collaborate and work cross-functionally, bringing together the best of the business to drive results in a heavily matrixed, fast-paced environment
  • Exceptional problem-solving skills and analytic mindset
  • Inquisitive mindset
  • Excellent team player
  • Strong influencing interpersonal skills, excellent oral, written and presentation skills
  • Capable of securing executive level leadership buy-in, sponsorship and investment through strong articulation of business benefits aligned to broader organizational strategy
  • Ability to challenge status quo and propose solutions or alternatives
  • Ability to take initiative and make quality decisions
  • Background in managing large projects within a complex matrixed organization, either as an external consultant or an internal cross-functional lead
  • Experience managing cross-functional teams, including management of remote colleagues
  • Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize effectively
  • Ability to effectively handle and lead multiple tasks/projects independently
  • People leadership if applicable
  • Drive, energy, and passion to advance AbbVies mission
  • Demonstrated leadership in leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) to successfully improve work processes

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, andwemay ultimatelypay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in 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 to participate in our short-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 employee remains in the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay be modified at 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.

US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visithttps://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html

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