Regional Customer Excellence Director

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and provide innovative therapies and solutions that address today's serious diseases and meet the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to make a remarkable impact on patients' lives in several key therapeutic areas: immunology, ophthalmology, oncology, neuroscience, and virology, as well as in aesthetic medicine with products and services from our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

For more information about AbbVie: www.abbvie.com - www.abbvie.fr. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, X (ex Twitter) et YouTube.

Job Description

AbbVie's Europe Area Team is seeking a Regional Customer Excellence Director to accelerate customer-centric transformation across the region.

Reporting to the Customer Excellence Director, Europe, you will connect customer insight, data, technology, and commercial execution to deliver meaningful customer and business impact. You will partner with affiliate, area, and international leaders to translate strategy into scalable local action.

This role can be based anywhere in Europe.

Lead the Customer-Centric Transformation

• Embed customer-centric ways of working across affiliates, ensuring customer needs and insights shape strategic and operational decisions.

• Drive the evolution of go-to-market models, capabilities, operating models, and behaviours to improve customer engagement.

• Align global, area, and affiliate priorities while adapting initiatives to local market, access, healthcare-system, and regulatory realities.

Unlock the Value of Data, Analytics, Insights and AI

• Champion the use of customer insights, analytics, and AI-enabled solutions to strengthen decisions and create measurable value.

• Build teams' ability to turn cross-functional data into clear recommendations, actionable plans, and outcomes.

• Enable adoption of relevant international and global tools to deepen customer understanding and optimize engagement.

Elevate Excellence in Execution

• Improve consistency, agility, and effectiveness of execution across affiliates and functions.

• Embed practical best practices, performance frameworks, and tools that translate strategy into high-quality delivery.

• Advise on field force excellence, capability building, launch readiness, and the scaling of successful affiliate innovations.

Shape the Customer Excellence Organisation of the Future

• Define the future Customer Excellence capabilities, operating model, talent, and ways of working needed for evolving business and customer needs.

• Support affiliates to prioritize local roadmaps, close capability gaps, and remain aligned with regional and global direction.

• Identify and scale innovations that strengthen the connection between strategy, customer experience, data, technology, and execution.

Build Strategic Partnerships and Influence Across the Matrix

• Build trusted partnerships with senior leaders across affiliates, area functions, and international teams.

• Influence complex, cross-functional decisions through strong commercial judgment, collaboration, and a focus on value creation.

• Act as a strategic advisor on Customer Excellence priorities, data-driven decision-making, and execution.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience in Customer Excellence, commercial transformation, marketing, field force effectiveness, analytics, digital, or related roles within pharma, healthcare, or another regulated industry.

• Proven ability to lead customer-centric, cross-functional transformation across complex, multi-market matrix organizations.

• Strong commercial and strategic acumen, translating customer, market, and data insights into actionable strategies and measurable outcomes.

• Experience with go-to-market models, launch readiness, customer engagement, data, analytics, digital tools, and AI-enabled solutions.

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, with the ability to engage senior leaders and lead through indirect authority.

• A self-directed, resilient, and collaborative leader with strong judgment, accountability, and fluent English; additional European languages are an asset.

• Fluent English, with strong written and presentation skills. Additional European languages are an asset.

Additional Information

Whatever your area of expertise: medical, regulatory, market access, human resources, legal, marketing, communication... at AbbVie, you will find exciting challenges and opportunities to explore new career paths.

From a practical point of view and daily work life: the headquarters of AbbVie France are located at 5/13 Boulevard, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt. The new premises along the Seine host the France and Europe teams, both therapeutic and aesthetic, in two newly renovated seven-story buildings within a campus of four buildings.

Each floor is equipped with meeting rooms and relaxation areas to promote collaboration and informal exchanges. The premises also have outdoor spaces, including a green inner courtyard and a private rooftop with a view of the Seine, exclusively for AbbVie employees.

Numerous services are offered on-site: car and motorcycle parking with electric charging stations, bicycle storage, company restaurant, gym, and concierge service.

Located in a dynamic and lively district with many amenities, our new offices are easily accessible by public transports with subway line 9, RER C, and buses 126, 189 and 289 stations nearby.

Since 2015, AbbVie has been recognized as a Great Place to Work. We are in the top 5 companies where it is good to work. We are also one of the few companies to be awarded the "Best Workplace for Women" award, which recognizes the ability of companies to take into account major societal issues such as gender equality.

At AbbVie, we value work-life balance. We offer the possibility to work from home up to 2 days a week, according to the modalities defined in our collective agreement. Join us to be part of a diverse and collaborative team.

Find more information about benefits at AbbVie France by clicking here: https://www.abbvie.fr/rejoindre-abbvie/la-vie-chez-abbvie/avantages.html

You can find us at www.abbvie.com - www.abbvie.fr. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, X (ex Twitter) et YouTube.

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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