Director, CRM Product Lead
About the role
About AbbVie
Purpose
Primary Responsibilities
Product Strategy & Delivery
- Serve as Product Owner for the CRM platform across the US commercial organization, owning the roadmap, release planning, and strategic priorities.
- Lead CRM product strategy for the NextGen CRM program by defining the future-state vision and translating it into scalable platform requirements and business processes.
- Own documentation and decision frameworks for NextGen CRM processes, ensuring clarity, traceability, and alignment across the US business.
- Champion advanced CRM technologies, including AI, and innovative processes that improve customer engagement, generate actionable insights, and reflect emerging industry trends.
- Gather and interpret business requirements, translating them into technology-enabled system enhancements and process improvements grounded in analytics and best practices.
- Conduct build-versus-buy analyses and prioritize investments to maximize the value of the CRM platform and related technologies.
- Lead design reviews and sprint demonstrations to ensure the product reflects field and business needs before deployment.
- Maintain strong product management discipline to deliver predictable, high-quality releases and support continuous improvement.
Leadership & Collaboration
- Oversee Product Owners supporting US Therapeutics, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and delivery standards.
- Lead, mentor, and develop the Product Owner team through coaching, performance guidance, and career development support.
- Facilitate collaboration between senior business leaders and cross-functional teams to secure input, feedback, and alignment on CRM initiatives.
- Partner with the Associate Director, CRM Activation, on deployment planning and field readiness to integrate product and activation strategies.
- Communicate roadmap updates, release decisions, and strategic direction clearly and consistently to senior leadership, field stakeholders, and key forums.
- Promote the CRM strategy and its organizational impact through stakeholder meetings, leadership forums, and targeted communications.
- Enable change by aligning stakeholders, proactively identifying risks, and removing barriers to successful adoption and sustained progress.
- Assess business processes and capability gaps; design, implement, and scale data-driven and technology-enabled improvements.
Governance & Compliance
- Establish and enforce governance frameworks to ensure CRM initiatives comply with applicable regulatory, privacy, and data requirements.
- Manage product delivery risks and cross-vertical dependencies, making risk-informed decisions that minimize disruption and maintain momentum.
- Ensure product decisions, process documentation, and platform configurations align with enterprise standards and governance protocols.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree required, and 10 + years of relevant experience across field leadership, marketing, and analytics.
- Prior 3-5 years' experience in field or functional leadership and/or business management or consulting.
- Experience with AI-enabled CRM capabilities, data analytics, and digital customer engagement is highly desirable
- Deep familiarity with CRM platforms, particularly Salesforce and/or Veeva, and the broader commercial technology ecosystem
- Previous experience leading broad organizational change initiatives, navigating new ways of working, building positive, accountable, and highly engaged team culture.
- Knowledge and deep understanding of overall business operations in pharma/biotech and healthcare industry.
- Strong understanding of industry legal, analytical and compliance landscape and ability to apply to diverse situations to keenly evaluate risk and develop appropriate risk mitigation strategies.
- Demonstrated leadership ability to develop and drive an organizational strategy in a very complex matrix internal and external environment.
- Ability to lead without authority, driving through execution across multiple functionally diverse stakeholders. Sophisticated skills for coaching, training, and/or mentoring peers or others as assigned; helping such others to better meet or exceed their goals and achieve their full potential in role.
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 thisposting 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 anduntil paid and may be modified at the Company's sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.
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