Manager II, Emerging Channel Insights

Manager, Above Brand/ Strategy 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 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.                       

 

 

Major Responsibilities

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 key member of Emerging Channel analytics team, this individual will provide analytics and research addressing high impact and high urgency portfolio-wide issues that inform AbbVie’s market access strategies and future readiness.  The individual will be responsible for conducting and guiding the communication of findings, results, and recommendations of modeling/ data analysis/research to Market Access leadership and US Leadership. The individual will lead and collaborate with internal cross-functional team from Marketing, Finance, Forecasting, IT, Legal and Pricing, while ensuring the quality and accuracy of all analytical results. The role requires strong data analytics/ modeling capabilities.

 

 

Key areas of functional scope include:

Delivering insights (analytics & primary research) for Above brand and market access strategic initiatives and future market trends for market access stakeholders and anticipating their needs.

Support “Above Brand” initiatives such as Part D Redesign, Inflation Reduction Act Impact, 340B impact, co-pay/ patient support program evolution, capability building (education/ training) etc…that require a high level of experience, project management and organizational influencing skills.

Conducting primary research, utilizing syndicated research/ data sources as required to understand needs of stakeholders and ability to connect dots with disparate information

Build relationships internally – e.g., with Govt. Affairs, Finance/ Forecasting, Marketing Analytics and Business Insights, Brand Marketing & Sales, etc. to accomplish team goals and to support goals of others.

Supervisory / Management Responsibilities

Exempt Direct Reports: none

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.