About AbbVie
At Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie company, we develop, manufacture, and market a portfolio of leading aesthetics brands and products. Our aesthetics portfolio includes facial injectables, body contouring, plastics, skin care, and more. Our goal is to consistently provide our customers with innovation, education, exceptional service, and a commitment to excellence, all with a personal touch. For more information, visit https://global.allerganaesthetics.com/. Follow Allergan Aesthetics on LinkedIn.
Job DescriptionThe 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
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.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, finance, sciences, or a related field
- Advanced degree
- At least 8 years of experience in forecasting, analytics, finance, market research, commercial strategy, or a related discipline
- Experience supporting complex strategic or investment decisions
- Ability to lead business development forecast discussions and align assumptions and business value at executive levels
- Experience supporting business development, external innovation, commercial diligence, asset valuation, licensing, acquisition, or portfolio investment decisions
- Understanding of quantitative methods in information management and forecasting techniques
- Experience integrating and manipulating large, complex datasets from multiple sources
- Ability to triangulate diverse datasets and analytics to inform forecasting
- High proficiency in Microsoft Excel
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally
- Ability to connect commercial business strategies to financial value
- Ability to adapt to change and work in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to work autonomously and in a team-based environment
- Experience in the pharmaceutical, aesthetics, or medical device sector
- International or global forecasting experience
- Proactivity, drive, energy, and passion to advance the company's mission
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs are portrayed as a standout, with a dollar‑for‑dollar 401(k) match up to 6% and an additional annual company contribution based on age and service. Feedback suggests this materially boosts perceived total compensation for many U.S. employees.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental and caregiver leave are emphasized, including up to 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents and 4 weeks of paid caregiver leave in the U.S. Feedback suggests these policies are a meaningful differentiator for employees balancing family needs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is described as extensive, with tiered vacation that scales with tenure, 17 company holidays, and two paid volunteer days in the U.S. Feedback suggests the breadth of leave contributes notably to overall benefits satisfaction.
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