The External Affairs Director for Cluster South is responsible for defining and leading AbbVie’s External Affairs strategy across Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay.
The role ensures strategic alignment between global External Affairs priorities, cluster business strategy, and country-specific stakeholder engagement needs, while safeguarding AbbVie’s reputation and strengthening the company’s ability to operate effectively within the healthcare ecosystem.
The External Affairs Director leads the cluster External Affairs organization, integrating the following capabilities:
- Government Affairs
- Public Affairs
- Patient Advocacy / Patient Relations
- Corporate and Internal Communications
The role holds direct strategic and operational responsibility for Government Affairs, particularly in Argentina, and ensures strategy definition and execution through the reporting teams for the remaining capabilities across the cluster.
The position is a member of the AMT Cluster South and serves as a strategic advisor to the General Manager on policy, reputation, stakeholder engagement and external healthcare environment dynamics.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Define and lead the External Affairs strategy for the Southern Cone Cluster, ensuring alignment between Global External Affairs priorities, Cluster strategic objectives, Country-specific stakeholder environments and including the following responsibilities:
- Translating global External Affairs priorities into cluster-level strategies.
- Ensuring consistent external positioning and stakeholders’ engagement across Cluster.
- Anticipating policy, regulatory and stakeholders’ trends that may impact AbbVie’s operating environment.
- Proactively shape the external environment to address access policy, access and reimbursement barriers affecting pipeline and on-market products.
- Supporting the development of public policy frameworks that promote patient access to innovative medicines and enable sustainable healthcare systems.
- Hold direct ownership for Government Affairs strategy and execution, with responsibility for Argentina and cluster-level alignment.
Responsibilities include:
- Defining and implementing the Government Affairs strategy in Argentina in alignment with Business priorities.
- Building and maintaining transparent, ethical and constructive relationships with government officials, decision makers and influencers and key institutional stakeholders.
- Monitoring and influencing public policy developments affecting healthcare and pharmaceutical industry.
- Representing AbbVie in industry associations and public policy forums
- In Chile and Uruguay, the role supports strategic alignment and coordination with local Market Access and Government Affairs leadership, ensuring coherence with cluster and global priorities.
- Provide strategic leadership for Public Affairs activities across the cluster, ensuring AbbVie’s institutional positioning within the healthcare ecosystem.
- Lead the strategic direction for Patient Advocacy across the cluster, ensuring the integration of patient perspectives into AbbVie’s external engagement and healthcare initiatives
- Provide leadership and strategic oversight for AbbVie’s communications strategy across the cluster including Corporate & Internal Communications.
- Lead and develop the External Affairs organization for the Cluster ensuring effective governance and collaboration across countries, developing talent within the External Affairs function, and promoting cross-functional collaboration with Market Access, Medical Affairs, Legal, and Therapeutical Business Units.
