Associate Director, Global Aesthetics Business Development Forecasting & Analytics

Job Description

The Associate Director, Global Aesthetics Business Development Forecasting & Analytics leads forecasting and analytical evaluation for external innovation and business development opportunities across the Global Aesthetics portfolio. This highly visible role partners across Business Development, Pipeline Commercialization & Strategy, Finance, R&D, Marketing, Market Research, and regional teams to assess commercial potential, inform investment decisions, and translate strategic opportunities into clear financial value.

Roles and responsibilities

• Lead forecasting and analytics for business development opportunities across Global Aesthetics, including external innovation, licensing, partnership, acquisition, and portfolio expansion opportunities within Facial, Plastics/Regen Med, Body Contouring, and Skin Care franchises.
• Develop robust, assumption-driven forecasts that size market opportunities, quantify commercial potential, assess scenario risk, and translate business development strategy into clear financial value.
• Partner closely with Business Development, PCS marketing, market research, Finance, R&D, regional marketing, and operations teams to evaluate strategic fit, commercial viability, launch potential, and long-range value creation for new assets and external opportunities.
• Create forecasts and analytical outputs to support governance decisions, diligence milestones, and investment prioritization. Develop and present clear, evidence-based recommendations to senior leaders, articulating commercial potential, key assumptions, risks and strategic trade-offs.
• Synthesize insights and deliver recommendations for business development deals, pipeline assets, and new clinical programs.
• Leverage market research, competitive intelligence, analog analysis, claims/positioning assumptions, epidemiology or procedure trends, pricing, access, and adoption dynamics to inform business development forecasting assumptions.
• Manage the end-to-end forecasting process for business development opportunities, including input coordination, scenario development, stakeholder reviews, alignment discussions, sensitivity analysis, and submission-ready forecast deliverables.
• Drive alignment with financial leadership to ensure business development forecasts, valuation inputs, risks, opportunities, and strategic narrative are integrated into the overall Global Aesthetics franchise view.
• Lead analytical support for cross-functional assessments of external innovation, white-space opportunities, portfolio gaps, and strategic growth initiatives across franchises.

Scope:

• Global role for Fillers, Toxins, Plastics, Regenerative Medicine, Body Contouring, SkinCare and any new Aesthetics franchises

Qualifications

The candidate

• Ability to lead business development forecast discussions and drive alignment of assumptions and business value at executive levels of organization.
• Experience supporting business development, external innovation, commercial diligence, asset valuation, licensing, acquisition, or portfolio investment decisions preferred.
• Solid understanding of analytical quantitative methods in information management and forecasting techniques
• Proven track record integrating market data and manipulating large, complex multiple sources to support business decisions
• Ability to triangulate a wide variety of data sets and analytics to inform forecasting in a clear and concise way
• High proficiency in using Microsoft Excel
• Excellent communication skills – verbal and written
• Work collaboratively across functions towards successful outcomes
• Ability to connect commercial business strategies to financial values
• Highly flexible, adapting to change and a fast-paced environment
• Able to work both autonomously and in a team-based environment
• Experience in pharmaceutical, aesthetics or medical device sector
• Drive, energy, and passion to advance AbbVie’s mission
• Demonstrate a high degree of proactivity to maximize value-add to the business

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree is required, preferably with a degree focused in business, marketing, finance, sciences or related field; advanced degree highly preferred.
• Minimum 8 years’ experience in forecasting, analytics, finance, market research, commercial strategy, or a related discipline, including experience supporting complex strategic or investment decisions.
• International or global experience in forecasting is desirable

Travelling

• Up to 20% of the time

Additional Information

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