Account Supervisor - AbbVie

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 www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

A3, a full-service pharmaceutical advertising agency is hiring for an Account Supervisor who will be responsible for independently leading daily account activities (US & Global) for assigned pharmaceutical brand(s), encompassing strategic planning, marketing communication development, tactical implementation, and collaboration with agency partners.  This role serves as the primary liaison between A3 and the AbbVie brand teams, and ensures client satisfaction through quality work, demonstrating the value of our partnership and services, and responsiveness to meet their business objectives. This role may also manage direct reports depending on the needs of the business.

This position reports to a Group Account Manager.

This is a hybrid role and requires the ability to commute to our Mettawa, IL office at least 3 days per week.

Responsibilities:

• Understand annual brand objectives and strategies to effectively execute initiatives aligned with those goals.
• Lead the creation of client deliverables from initiation to completion, ensuring timely, budget-friendly, and strategically aligned completion
• Provide clear communication with clients and internal teams to verify that account status, meetings, and deliverables are progressing in alignment with objectives
• Maintain knowledge of AbbVie guidelines including, but not limited to, corporate branding, promotional material development, PromoMats review and corporate compliance.
• Possess a thorough understanding of product attributes, marketing objectives, target audience, competitive environment, market dynamics and medical/regulatory/legal position.
• Maintain an intimate understanding of the Agency Workflow Process including project initiation and kickoff, collaboration, necessary approvals, production and archiving.
• Collaborate with the brand team in the development of creative briefs
• Recommend key promotional tactics that align with the strategy and goals of the brand.
• Facilitate ongoing, timely and accurate communications to ensure all projects are completed on time and within budget.

• Bachelor degree required.
• 7+ years experience, preferably in a pharmaceutical agency environment.
• Excellent communications skills: verbal, presentation, written.
• Critical thinking and problem solving skills.
• Comfortable in a high-visibility role.

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 short-term incentive programs. ​

• 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. 

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion.  It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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