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

Job Description

Strategy Leadership Program MBA Internship Description

The Corporate Business & Strategy Office (CBSO) collaborates closely with senior leaders and functions across AbbVie to drive mission-critical initiatives and pursue external innovation opportunities that will make a real difference for patients, while positioning AbbVie for sustained top-tier growth. The group consists of integrated teams focused on corporate strategy, business development and acquisitions, partnership management, search and evaluation of external innovation opportunities, and transformation initiatives.

As a Strategy Leadership Program MBA intern, you will join CBSO and work on meaningful assignments that have a real impact on our business and patients worldwide.

AbbVie’s worldwide business offers you an opportunity to work in a variety of fields. All internship assignments are different and based on business need; however, below are examples of the work that you may be involved in as part of your internship:

• Perform primary research to characterize industry trends, develop strategy, and/or identify investment opportunities.

• Review investment opportunities for scientific, commercial, and financial viability.

• Work alongside CBSO colleagues developing deal structure, risk mitigation and negotiation strategies for a target opportunity.

• Facilitate interactions with AbbVie’s strategic partners (e.g., collaboration kick-off, on-going governance).

Locations

Interns will be located at our corporate headquarters in North Chicago, Lake County, IL.

Qualifications

• Must be enrolled in an accredited MBA program, preferably with an emphasis on life sciences.

• Must be enrolled in an accredited MBA program the semester following your internship and graduate between December 2025 – June 2026.

• At least 5 years of prior work experience required. 3-5 years of experience in pharmaceutical / biotech industry (e.g., corporate, consulting, venture capital, investment banking) preferred.

• Strong life sciences background via work experience or education (e.g., PhD, MD, PharmD).

• Cumulative GPA of 3.00 or higher preferred.

• Demonstrated leadership potential.

• High learning agility and initiative.

• Strong analytical skills.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

AbbVie strongly considers interns as candidates for their Strategy Leadership Program (SLP) after they graduate. AbbVie’s SLP is a 2-year rotational program with four separate work assignments. The rotations span a variety of functional areas such as: AbbVie Ventures, Business Development & Acquisitions, Corporate Strategy, Global Alliances, Enterprise Innovation & Transformation, and Search & Evaluation. The goal of the program is to recruit and develop initiative-taking, high-performing individuals to become AbbVie’s future corporate development and strategy leaders. If you are interested and want more information, visit abbviecareers.com.

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.​

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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AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines 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, eye care, virology, women’s health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.