Director, Competitive & Strategic Insights - AI Strategy

Responsibilities

• Partner with BTS to define business requirements for CI knowledge graph and agent-enabled workflows, ensuring AI agents are grounded in approved, traceable, and validated intelligence sources.
• Support documentation, prioritization, and feasibility assessment of high-value ODIN use cases; maintain a use case inventory and benefits tracker capturing planned versus realized value across program phases.
• Enable enterprise CI AI capabilities, partner closely with CI leads, BTS, analytics, and platform stakeholders to align feasibility, timing, and execution-without owning coding or engineering tasks directly
• Translate competitive intelligence questions into compelling, intuitive visual experiences that surface patterns, risks, and opportunities across AI platforms, including ODIN
• Platform KPIs & Adoption Metrics: Track, maintain, and report on platform KPIs, adoption metrics, user engagement, and feedback, providing regular updates to business owners to inform rollout and prioritization decisions.
• Use Case Development & Benefits Tracking: Support the documentation, prioritization, and feasibility assessment of high-value ODIN platform use cases; maintain a use case inventory and benefits tracker capturing planned vs. realized value across program phases.
• Drive and implement communication and training for ODIN and additional AI CI resources at the enterprise level, and across the BUs
• Bachelor's degree in health/life sciences required; Advanced degree (PhD, PharmD) in Life Sciences/Medicine is preferred
• 7-9 years of experience in Pharma/Biotech with 3-5+ years of experience CI or market research in Pharma/Biotech pipeline assets; immunology clinical development/regulatory experience preferred
• Expertise with CI methodologies (preferred)
• AI & Technical Fluency: Ability to engage credibly with AI/ML partners and internal experts, translate technical concepts into business context
• Proven track record of defining and executing end-to-end product vision, roadmap, and prioritization for AI-enabled CI capabilities, including making trade-off decisions across business value, feasibility, and timing
• Familiarity with competitive intelligence platforms (e.g. Evaluate Pharma, Cortellis, PatBase, Citeline)
• Strong oral, facilitation, and written communication skills; ability to distill complex information synthesized into concise and impactful messages and communications; PPT proficiency
• Ability to interact effectively with/present to all levels of the organization; Stakeholder management and executive presence
• Key Stakeholders:
• Business Technology Services, Commercial, Clinical Development, Regulatory, Search & Evaluation, Business Development, Innovation, Transformation, TA Strategy
• Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:
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Additional Information

Competitive & Strategic Insights (CSI) focuses on competitive intelligence for AbbVie's industry-leading pipeline and R&D areas of interest. The team strives to drive best-in-class Competitive Intelligence, partnering closely with Asset Teams, TA and Research & Development (R&D) leadership. CSI informs and influences AbbVie strategy according to the pipeline commercial operating model and in coordination across multiple stakeholders. CSI communicates intelligence and insights to the broader organization to influence strategy and decision-making. The Director, CSI AI Lead will drive enterprise-wide CI capabilities through AI and additional technologies, in partnership with cross-functional partners (e.g. Business Technology Solutions (BTS), Commercial, etc.). In this role, you will also be a key business owner for ODIN, AbbVie's enterprise market and competitive intelligence platform, driving overall strategic direction and implementation. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role for a strategic, proactive leader who thrives at the intersection of science, technology, and collaboration.

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