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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 at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.
Job Description
The Director, Neuroscience Strategy of the Corporate Business Strategy Office (CBSO) is responsible for building and leading teams that integrate expertise across Discovery, Development, Commercial, Corporate Business & Strategy, and other key functions to drive a variety of initiatives that include creating and executing long range TA strategies, addressing key above brand strategy questions, and integrating internal and external opportunity evaluations.
Achieving these goals requires a combination of excellent collaborative skills to enable stakeholder management and alignment, broad strategic thinking, and an ability to drive complex analyses using a wide variety of data and insights to synthesize into actionable strategic outputs.
Responsibilities:
- Builds and leads a range of cross-functional teams to drive TA and CBSO priorities
- Fosters end-to-end innovation on enterprise-critical topics and projects through collaboration with Therapeutic Area Strategy Council (TASC), and other senior R&D and commercial focused leadership teams (including Asset Strategy Teams (AST) and early Brand Strategy Teams)
- Support TA strategic initiatives that will address mission-critical questions and position AbbVie for future success
- Serves as strategic partner to R&D and Commercial leaders across major transformational initiatives to define objectives, scope, clear deliverables and workstreams
- Monitor, understand, and prioritize external trends of relevance to the enterprise, and help determine how AbbVie should prepare and/or response
- Help communicate and execute TA strategies across AbbVie
- As appropriate, facilitate identification, evaluation, and implementation of novel tools and technologies and new clinical endpoints (e.g., digital or imaging tools, biomarkers, drug delivery systems, devices, and other platform technologies) that can be employed to improve or accelerate key strategic priorities
- In collaboration with relevant functions, drives internal and external stakeholder assessments in order to anticipate changes in the external environment, and to understand the patient journey and levers to improve outcomes
Qualifications
Education & Experience:
- Bachelors or equivalent degree required. Advanced degree (PharmD, PhD, MD, MBA) highly preferred.
- Minimum Years of Experience – 8+ with Bachelors, 6+ with Masters, 4+ with PhD/Doctorate
- Corporate or TA strategy, R&D, commercial, business development, or related experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry, with a track record of expertise in one or more therapeutic areas
- Recognized team player with proven facilitative leadership skills in a cross-functional, global team environment
- Proven performance in a matrix environment, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders
- Ability to operate independently and take ownership of projects to structure and drive complex plans in ambiguous situations
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact effectively both internally and externally to support business strategy
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to evaluate complex issues from multiple perspectives and make balanced risk assessments
Essential Skills and Competencies:
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate ideas clearly and make complex topics easy for others to understand
- Good financial acumen, with an understanding of P&L drivers
- Self-starter who learns quickly, demonstrates intellectual curiosity, and proactively drives projects to successful completion
- Strong planning, coordination, project management, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to resolve conflict diplomatically
- Ability to build strong relationships with peers and cross-functional partners outside the immediate team
- Strong emotional intelligence, diplomacy, confidentiality, maturity, and organizational savvy
- Ability to execute highly effective working team meetings with internal and external partners in an inclusive and transparent manner
- Excellent command of MS PowerPoint and MS Excel
- Experience working with pre-launch, launch, and/or on-market commercial teams preferred
This position is a hybrid opportunity requiring at minimum three (3) days onsite in the respective AbbVie office location.
Additional Information
Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:
- The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
- 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 long-term incentive programs.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable 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, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html
US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more:
https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html
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 at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.
Job Description
The Director, Neuroscience Strategy of the Corporate Business Strategy Office (CBSO) is responsible for building and leading teams that integrate expertise across Discovery, Development, Commercial, Corporate Business & Strategy, and other key functions to drive a variety of initiatives that include creating and executing long range TA strategies, addressing key above brand strategy questions, and integrating internal and external opportunity evaluations.
Achieving these goals requires a combination of excellent collaborative skills to enable stakeholder management and alignment, broad strategic thinking, and an ability to drive complex analyses using a wide variety of data and insights to synthesize into actionable strategic outputs.
Responsibilities:
- Builds and leads a range of cross-functional teams to drive TA and CBSO priorities
- Fosters end-to-end innovation on enterprise-critical topics and projects through collaboration with Therapeutic Area Strategy Council (TASC), and other senior R&D and commercial focused leadership teams (including Asset Strategy Teams (AST) and early Brand Strategy Teams)
- Support TA strategic initiatives that will address mission-critical questions and position AbbVie for future success
- Serves as strategic partner to R&D and Commercial leaders across major transformational initiatives to define objectives, scope, clear deliverables and workstreams
- Monitor, understand, and prioritize external trends of relevance to the enterprise, and help determine how AbbVie should prepare and/or response
- Help communicate and execute TA strategies across AbbVie
- As appropriate, facilitate identification, evaluation, and implementation of novel tools and technologies and new clinical endpoints (e.g., digital or imaging tools, biomarkers, drug delivery systems, devices, and other platform technologies) that can be employed to improve or accelerate key strategic priorities
- In collaboration with relevant functions, drives internal and external stakeholder assessments in order to anticipate changes in the external environment, and to understand the patient journey and levers to improve outcomes
Qualifications
Education & Experience:
- Bachelors or equivalent degree required. Advanced degree (PharmD, PhD, MD, MBA) highly preferred.
- Minimum Years of Experience – 8+ with Bachelors, 6+ with Masters, 4+ with PhD/Doctorate
- Corporate or TA strategy, R&D, commercial, business development, or related experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry, with a track record of expertise in one or more therapeutic areas
- Recognized team player with proven facilitative leadership skills in a cross-functional, global team environment
- Proven performance in a matrix environment, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders
- Ability to operate independently and take ownership of projects to structure and drive complex plans in ambiguous situations
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact effectively both internally and externally to support business strategy
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to evaluate complex issues from multiple perspectives and make balanced risk assessments
Essential Skills and Competencies:
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate ideas clearly and make complex topics easy for others to understand
- Good financial acumen, with an understanding of P&L drivers
- Self-starter who learns quickly, demonstrates intellectual curiosity, and proactively drives projects to successful completion
- Strong planning, coordination, project management, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to resolve conflict diplomatically
- Ability to build strong relationships with peers and cross-functional partners outside the immediate team
- Strong emotional intelligence, diplomacy, confidentiality, maturity, and organizational savvy
- Ability to execute highly effective working team meetings with internal and external partners in an inclusive and transparent manner
- Excellent command of MS PowerPoint and MS Excel
- Experience working with pre-launch, launch, and/or on-market commercial teams preferred
This position is a hybrid opportunity requiring at minimum three (3) days onsite in the respective AbbVie office location.
Additional Information
Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:
- The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
- 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 long-term incentive programs.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable 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, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html
US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more:
https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html
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Align your degree to the role
Strategy roles must qualify as specialty occupations under H-1B1 visa rules, meaning your degree field needs a direct connection to the position. A business, economics, or finance degree supporting a corporate strategy function is typically sufficient, but a mismatch invites consular pushback.
Search LCA filings before applying
Employers must file a Labor Condition Application with DOL before sponsoring your H-1B1. Use the OFLC Wage Search to find companies that have filed LCAs for strategy job titles, which confirms they've navigated the process before and aren't starting from scratch with you.
Find verified H-1B1 sponsors on Migrate Mate
Migrate Mate filters employers by H-1B1 Singapore visa filing history so you're targeting companies that have already sponsored Singaporean nationals. This cuts out the guesswork of cold-applying to firms that may not understand the visa category.
Prepare a specialty occupation evidence packet
Before your consulate appointment, compile your offer letter, degree transcripts, and a role description explicitly linking your position to your academic field. Consular officers assess specialty occupation on the spot, so gaps in documentation can result in a 221(g) administrative hold.
Negotiate who covers the LCA wage level
DOL requires your employer to pay at least the prevailing wage for your occupation and work location. Use the OFLC Wage Search to check the Level I through Level IV wage tiers for your strategy job title before accepting an offer, so compensation aligns with what the employer must certify.
Confirm your employer's E-Verify enrollment
H-1B1 employers are required to participate in E-Verify. Ask your prospective employer to confirm enrollment before you advance to the offer stage. Discovering a non-enrolled employer after you've started the process means delays or finding a different sponsor entirely.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a strategy role qualify as a specialty occupation for the H-1B1 Singapore visa?
Yes, if the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field like business, economics, finance, or management. Roles titled corporate strategy analyst, business strategy manager, or strategy consultant typically qualify. The key is that your offer letter and job description must demonstrate the degree-to-role connection clearly, since a consular officer makes this determination at your appointment.
How does the H-1B1 Singapore visa differ from the H-1B for strategy professionals?
The H-1B1 Singapore visa skips the lottery entirely and processes at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore rather than through USCIS. The 5,400-visa annual cap rarely fills, so timing isn't a barrier the way it is with H-1B. The tradeoff is that H-1B1 is issued in one-year increments at the consulate rather than the three-year USCIS-approved petition common with H-1B, so you'll renew more frequently.
Where can I find employers that have already sponsored H-1B1 Singapore visa holders for strategy jobs?
Migrate Mate surfaces employers by their H-1B1 filing history, so you can focus on companies that have already worked through the process for Singaporean nationals in strategy roles. Targeting these employers reduces the chance that your sponsorship conversation is their first introduction to the visa category, which shortens timelines and avoids unnecessary friction.
What happens to my H-1B1 status if my strategy role changes within the same employer?
If your job duties shift substantially, your employer should evaluate whether a new Labor Condition Application is required, since the original LCA is tied to a specific occupation and wage level. A promotion within the same strategy function typically doesn't require a new filing, but a move into a materially different role, like operations or finance, likely does. Your employer's legal counsel can confirm based on the specific change.
Can I use O*NET to verify that my strategy job title qualifies under H-1B1 rules?
O*NET occupation profiles list the education and training typically required for each job title, which is useful for confirming your role's specialty occupation characteristics before applying. Look up your specific job title on O*NET and check whether a bachelor's degree in a related field is listed as the standard entry requirement. If the profile shows a lower threshold, you'll want to build a stronger factual case through your offer letter and job description.
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