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Associate Director, Marketing Oncology

AbbVie Open · verified Aug 17, 2026
Hybrid Mettawa Waltham Full-time Director General Marketing

Leadership General Marketing role at AbbVie. Mettawa · full-time · $141,500–$268,500 base.

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$141,500 – $268,500
Base salary for this role, in USD per year, as published in the posting.
Role brief

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What you'll do

  • Shape patient strategy and yearly brand plans for ELAHERE and EMRELIS
  • Plan patient promotions and omnichannel activity around each brand’s strategy
  • Move patient materials through medical, legal, and regulatory review
  • Develop a Marketing Manager and coordinate internal teams, agencies, and consultants
  • Track budgets, support sales communications, brief executives, and assess plan results

What you bring

  • Hold a bachelor's degree
  • Bring five to seven years of biopharmaceutical experience, including consumer or patient marketing
  • Apply strong analytics, business judgment, leadership, and communication skills
  • Build productive relationships with senior leaders and external partners

Who this fits

You’ll suit this role if you have biopharmaceutical consumer or patient marketing experience and can work across medical, sales, regulatory, advocacy, and agency teams. Oncology or hematology experience is useful, especially with ovarian or lung cancer. The role is hybrid in Mettawa, with onsite work required Tuesday through Thursday.

From the employer

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, FacebookInstagramX and YouTube.

*This is a hybrid role and you will be required to be onsite at our office Tuesday-Thursday*

The Associate Director (AD) will be responsible for planning and executing Patient strategies and tactics for ELAHERE, the first and only approved treatment for FRα-positive platinum-resistant ovarian cancer and EMRELIS, the first and only c-Met targeted ADC approved in 2L+ NSCLC. The AD will support both brands in a 70/30 split of their time, and work closely with multiple departments to ensure alignment in strategic direction and market execution. The AD will foster positive working relationships with advocacy, public affairs, sales, sales training, medical affairs, market research, regulatory, and other cross franchise teams. 

 Key Responsibilities Include:

  • Support and participate in the development of strategy for patient tactics
  • Help build the yearly brand tactical plans and develop tactics that align to the strategic brand plan primarily for patient promotions, including omnichannel strategy and planning
  • Partner with medical, legal, and regulatory teams to review and approve patient materials.
  • Manage and develop a Marketing Manager focused on ELAHERE and collaborate with internal/external networks, consultants, and agency partners
  • Perform budget tracking for responsible tactics
  • Contribute to presentations for Executive Leadership
  • Establish and maintain relationships with advocacy groups where appropriate
  • Proactively support the sales force through ongoing communications of patient materials, as well as through development and implementation of patient brochures and other leave-behinds
  • Continually evaluate the effectiveness of marketing plans and recommend changes in strategy or tactics as appropriate

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree. 
  • 5-7 years of biopharmaceutical industry experience with experience in Consumer/Patient marketing
  • Strong analytics with excellent overall business acumen
  • Excellent leadership and communication skills
  • Ability to foster strong relationships with senior management and external partners

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Oncology/hematology experience, especially ovarian cancer or lung cancer
  • Experience in pharmaceutical sales
  • Knowledge of marketing concepts within strategic planning process
  • Strong collaboration and team orientation, with experience accomplishing results through others and influencing others
  • Demonstrated understanding of principles of market research to draw valid conclusions

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. 

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