Manager, Market Access Insights

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.

The Marketing Analytics and Business Insights (MABI) function supports AbbVie’s US organization and is comprised of highly respected researchers, analysts, data scientists and strategists who are committed to being best-in-class within the biopharmaceutical industry.  We serve as a strategic in-house counsel, ensuring that all decisions leverage the key insights that we develop.  We continue to build new capabilities and skill sets, encouraging our team members to pull up a chair, be themselves, be creative, speak their minds, and do good work.  We are a passionate, diverse, flexible, and inclusive organization with a culture that supports the best ideas, wherever they originate.  We are smart, fun, quirky, and innovative – and we’d love for you to join us.                        

 

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Market Access Insights (MAI) organization within MABI plays an instrumental role in shaping market access strategies for all of AbbVie’s domestic brands. As a member of this team, you will lead the planning and execution of standard and ad-hoc analytics to identify/ quantify payer opportunities and threats, make specific recommendations on the development of market access strategies and tactics, develop analytical capabilities, enable organizational learning, and ensure alignment of analytical insights with the broader commercial goals of each brand. The role requires strong data analytics capabilities as well as subject matter expertise within the overall U.S. market access environment. The role provides insights that directly impact patient and physician access to AbbVie brands through its influence on the development of pricing, contracting and other access strategies.

 

 

The Payor Marketing Research and Analytics Manager will be responsible for guiding the communication of findings, results and recommendations of analysis/research within MA&BI teams and across franchises to improve payor knowledge (government, employers, and health plans) and reflection of insights to brand strategies while ensuring the quality and accuracy of all analytical results.   Key areas of functional scope include

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

·Leading the development of GPO, Specialty Pharmacy, Health Plan and PBM contracting strategies for launch brands across payer channels through advanced modelling techniques, communicating analytical narratives that describe the opportunity and risks of stakeholder negotiations, and informing financial projections based on launch pricing and contracting strategies. ·Leading the delivery of brand specific market access analytical insights in response to specific market access issues/ trends. Understanding the impact of utilization management, tiering and medical policy impact on overall demand, line of therapy and co-pay support. Conducting investigative analytics to validate and/ or quantify market phenomenon related to competitive or customer tactics. Identifying through quantitative methods, value drivers that guide clinical data development and value positioning. ·Demonstrating a strong understanding of syndicated and AbbVie proprietary data, data science and modeling techniques and the ability to synthesize insights into compelling narratives. Is highly proficient at supplier and stakeholder management, leading external analytics to deliver compelling learnings, and formulating analytical strategies appropriate for the issue at hand. ·Responsible for leading the communication of market access insights to leadership requiring a broad range of market access expertise as these brands commonly experience differing market access challenges.   #LI-Hybrid

CRITICAL QUALIFICATIONS:

·Bachelor’s degree required, preferably with a concentration in a quantitative field, such as Engineering, Math, CS, Economics or similar.  ·5+ years of relevant experience required. ·Analytical reasoning abilities, intellectual curiosity, strong business acumen, superior organizational skills, attention to detail, and creativity in problem-solving.  ·Excellent oral and written executive-level communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills ·Proven ability to effectively collaborate and influence in a heavily matrixed environment ·Demonstrated ability to manage a wide variety of projects and multiple priorities ·Experience managing external vendors  ·Experience in pharmaceutical or a related industry is a plus ·

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

·Advanced degree (MA, MS, MBA, PhD) preferred ·Working knowledge of multivariate statistics and analytical software ·Strong working knowledge of pharmaceutical data sources (IMS, Symphony Health, HIRC, HSG, etc….). ·2 years of pharmaceutical market access experience and subject matter expertise with Health Plans, PBMs, Hospital Systems, Specialty Pharmacies and Healthcare Policy stakeholders. ·3 years of pharmaceutical marketing insights experience with significant expertise with Physician and Consumer stakeholders

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer including disability/vets. 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 disabled veteran, recently separated veteran, Armed Forces service medal veteran or active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran or a person’s relationship or association with a protected veteran, including spouses and other family members, or any other protected group status. We will take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified minorities, women, individuals with a disability, disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, Armed Forces service medal veterans or active-duty wartime or campaign badge veterans. The Affirmative Action Plan is available for viewing in the Human Resources office during regular business hours.