Gastroenterology Regional Marketing Manager - Central Region

About the position

The Immunology Regional Marketing Manager (RMM) will work closely with multiple AbbVie cross-functional teams to ensure collaboration, alignment, and successful development of area marketing strategy and execution. This field-based marketing role will be responsible for the development and optimization of national and regional marketing initiatives, ensuring alignment with Annual Strategic Brand Plans. The RMM will act as the face of the AbbVie Marketing team with our External Experts, developing, implementing, and maintaining interactions for the purpose of insight generation within assigned geographies. Additionally, the RMM works within a team-based environment to optimize brand performance across AbbVie Immunology.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects compliantly and effectively through the promotional review process to deliver high-quality work in a timely fashion.
• Manage strategy, execution and budgeting for national and regional conventions, External Expert consulting, advisory boards, and commercial peer-to-peer education programming.
• Continually applies knowledge and evaluates the effectiveness of key marketing tactics, making strategic recommendations to leadership on opportunities for brand optimization.
• Provide in-depth insights based on the brands key business questions to provide input on marketing strategy, resource optimization and tactic development that drives brand performance.
• Lead partnerships with field leadership in assigned geography to optimize pull-through of marketing strategies.
• Understand a geographical area's market drivers, competitive landscape, provider dynamics and competitive intelligence across the assigned geography.
• Coordinate the direction and deliverables of multiple external vendors and internal departments including Agency Partners, Marketing functions, Market Research, Legal, Regulatory, Medical Affairs, Office of Ethics and Compliance, and IT.
• Identify, build, and strengthen commercial relationships with External Experts, emerging leaders, and relevant patient and professional associations within assigned geography.
• Develop regional engagement plans for External Experts and ensure consistent tactical execution throughout the year to drive key marketing engagement.
• Demonstrate in-depth understanding of external and internal drivers across multiple external stakeholder groups and appropriately connect AbbVie's Integrated Brand Teams on opportunities for collaboration based on aligned objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Previous experience in sales, sales management, or marketing with at least 2 years of experience in Immunology (preferred).
• Previous Gastroenterology experience preferred.
• Travel up to 75% of the time including evenings and weekends.
• Valid driver's license: Ability to pass a pre-employment drug screening test and meet safe driving requirements.

Nice-to-haves

• Mastery of verbal and non-verbal communication and presentation skills, live and virtual.
• Experience working in a collaborative working environment with integrated, cross-functional teams.
• Ability to navigate a field and headquarter based matrix organization.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Knowledge of applicable regulations and standards affecting Pharmaceutical Products.

Benefits

• Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick).
• Medical/dental/vision insurance.
• 401(k) to eligible employees.
• Short-term incentive programs.
• Long-term incentive programs.