Job Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at  . Follow @abbvie on  X ,  Facebook ,  Instagram ,  YouTube ,  LinkedIn and  Tik Tok .

Job Description

Purpose

The Senior Event Planner manages and supports all strategic, operational, and logistical activities for meeting and event related activities; may liase with a third-party vendor as appropriate. The Senior Event Planner is responsible for working closely with specified clients to develop a comprehensive meetings and events calendar that aligns with the overall business strategy and objectives. Additionally, this role acts as the appointed owner for the creation and management of annual planning budgets for both pipeline and in-line products. This role works closely with affiliate counterparts to create a unified approach to meeting and events management, both domestically and internationally.

Responsibilities

• The Sr. Event Planner is responsible for partnering with strategic business unit senior management teams to streamline the meetings and events management process, identify synergies and best practices across brands and therapeutic areas, and identify cost effective solutions to convention marketing.
• Utilize tracking and measurement tools to determine the qualitative and quantitative effectiveness of expenditures across all therapeutic areas.
• Maintain, report and forecast annual brand meeting budgets.
• Liaise with the Compliance to track and monitor all compliance related expenditures and reporting requirements. • Ensure the integrity of all HCP interactions at conventions and affiliated meetings in accordance with corporate guidelines and policies. • Monitor vendor compliance with related policies and procedures, most notably those relating to regulatory and compliance of promotional materials and interactions with HCPs.
• Communication and enforcement of International Congress/Event Guidelines where applicable.
• Serve as program lead for national and global meeting/event programs.
• Cross collaboration with marketing brand stakeholders, financial controllers, procurement, and vendor partners.
• Liaise with cross functional stakeholders to determine program synergies/opportunities and deliver consist service and messaging across all convention programs Research and recommend efficiencies in logistics, technologies, procedures, and/or industry related solutions.

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Qualifications

Qualifications

• Basic

  Qualifications

  : • Bachelor's degree in business, communication, organizational leadership or related field of study and 5+ years of work experience
• Desired

  Qualifications

  : Convention planning experience preferred – including staff & vendor management experience
• Exceptional leadership skills and demonstrated success managing a both small and large scale projects.
• Strong negotiation and analytical skills
• Excellent people and communication skills, ability to operate in a cross-cultural and complex matrix environment, and ability to build consensus across functions without direct authority.
• Analytical and forward thinker, results oriented, self-organized and self-starter
• Results-oriented with a proven track record of results
• Adaptable & change agent in an evolving environment

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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 ofthis 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 short-term incentive programs. ​

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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 anybonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's soleand absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. 

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. 

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