Head of Marketing, Retina Eyecare

Lead the U.S. Retina Eyecare marketing organization, own portfolio strategy, and drive measurable performance across in-line and launch products.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the U.S. Retina Marketing team in Eye Care, accountable for vision, strategy, execution, and performance across both in-line and launch products.
• Set portfolio and brand priorities; convert customer, market, and competitive insights into differentiated strategies.
• Ensure disciplined investment and execution across the product life cycle.
• Lead and develop the Retina Marketing team; coordinate cross-functional partners to deliver business objectives and drive impact for patients.
• Apply a P&L ownership mindset and a One AbbVie perspective in decision-making.
• Own overarching Retina Marketing strategy across in-line and pipeline assets, aligning to enterprise priorities, customer needs, market dynamics, and asset life-cycle considerations.
• Own marketing inputs to the Retina business plan, including forecast assumptions, operating budgets, resource allocation, performance objectives, and investment trade-offs.
• Direct development, execution, measurement, and optimization of integrated marketing plans; establish performance indicators; identify risks and opportunities; maintain accountability for timely, high-quality delivery and business results.
• Lead, coach, and develop direct and indirect team members; set priorities, roles, and decision rights; build a high-performing culture grounded in trust, accountability, agility, collaboration, and enterprise leadership.
• Lead commercial strategy and readiness for launch products, including go-to-market planning, positioning, customer and site-of-care readiness, distribution, and access considerations; optimize continued performance of established brands.
• Maintain deep understanding of retina specialists, patients, practices, sites of care, healthcare decision makers, and competitive dynamics.
• Act as the senior Marketing representative for Retina, aligning Sales, Market Access, Medical Affairs, Regulatory, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Operations, Trade, Supply Chain, Patient Services, Analytics, R&D, and Global around shared priorities, resourcing, decisions, and execution.
• Oversee agency and vendor partnerships and determine appropriate engagement with external collaborators, professional societies, and advocacy organizations.
• Provide clear recommendations, updates, and decision frameworks to broader AbbVie leadership; influence and communicate across the organizational matrix.
• Ensure strategies and activities comply with AbbVie policies and applicable legal, regulatory, medical, and industry requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or other advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of Marketing experience.
• Extensive progressive pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or specialty-care commercial experience, including significant leadership in marketing and brand strategy.
• Proven success leading a franchise, portfolio, or major brand across multiple life-cycle stages, including launch planning and in-market growth.
• Strong people-leadership experience, with a record of building high-performing teams, developing talent, and leading through change in a matrixed organization.
• Deep expertise across the marketing capability framework: insights, segmentation, positioning, value proposition, customer experience, creative development, omnichannel execution, and investment optimization.
• Strong financial and analytical acumen: forecasting, operating-budget management, resource allocation, performance measurement, and P&L-oriented decision making.
• Ability to lead and influence senior cross-functional stakeholders across Sales, Market Access, Medical Affairs, Regulatory, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Operations, R&D, and Global teams.
• Excellent executive communication and strategic problem-solving, judgment, and decision-making; ability to translate complexity into clear direction and action.
• Preferred experience in ophthalmology, retina, buy-and-bill, specialty biologics, site-of-care markets, or physician-administered therapies.
• Ability to travel as required, approx. 35%.

Compensation and location

• Location: Irvine, CA (onsite)
• Salary: USD 182,000 - 346,000 per year

Benefits

• Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick)
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• 401(k)
• This job is eligible to participate in long-term incentive programs.

Additional information

• AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer committed to integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, and serving the community.
• Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
• US & Puerto Rico only: https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html
• US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation: https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html

Pay disclosure (applicable locations): The compensation range listed is the possible base pay range the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role based on the job grade at posting time. Individual compensation may vary by geographic location, and the range may change in the future. Eligibility for long-term incentive programs applies. No amount of pay is wages or compensation until earned, vested, and determinable. Bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, and other compensation and benefits remain within the Company’s sole discretion unless and until paid, consistent with applicable law.