Associate Director, Market Access Insights

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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.

Lead analytics and insights across portfolio for key market access issues impacting broader AbbVie portfolio across stakeholders through data analytics, customer insights and business knowledge. Identify through stakeholder economics (Follow the Dollar), claims analysis, market dynamics that shape brand demand and build models to portray risks, opportunities, and sensitivities. Demonstrate strong understanding of the U.S. healthcare landscape and key AbbVie therapeutic areas to identify and proactively address opportunities and threats. Build collaborative relationships with internal U.S. Market Access Sales and Marketing stakeholders.

The Associate Director, Market Access Insights (Policy and  Market Access Strategy) will be responsible for conducting and guiding the communication of findings, results, and recommendations of modeling/ data analysis/research with Brand and Market Access leadership, cross-functional team such as Govt. Affairs/ Finance teams, within MABI teams and across to the 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:

• Demonstrating proficiency in understanding implications of Healthcare Policy and impacts on the health care landscape, payors (both private and governmental), disease states and treatment options. Understanding of govt. payor (Medicare, Medicaid etc.) is very useful.
• 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.
• 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.
• Leading the development of analytics and insights for emerging trends and strategies across market access payor channels and stakeholders impacting broader AbbVie portfolio through advanced modelling techniques, communicating analytical narratives that describe the opportunity and risks of stakeholder negotiations, and informing financial projections based on scenario planning and stakeholder economics.
• Responsible for leading the communication of market access insights to leadership requiring a broad range of market access expertise as market players and trends evolve and experience differing market access challenges.
• Managing 2-3 direct reports, including talent recruiting and development as well as oversight of $1MM+ budget associated with external vendor support.
• Advising cross-functional partners on key data/analytics infrastructure enhancements to enable superior analytical capabilities.

This role is hybrid in Mettawa, IL (Tuesday-Thursday)

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 10+ years analytical experience including 2+ years in the healthcare industry within Market Access.
• 2+ years of experience of people management
• Strong story telling skills; ability to distill complex information synthesized into concise and impactful messages and communications

Preferred:

• Master’s degree or MBA

• Strong working knowledge of syndicated pharmaceutical data sources, including formulary data sources and claims data sources.

• Experience and subject matter expertise with Health Plans, PBMs, Hospital Systems, Specialty Pharmacies and Healthcare Policy stakeholders. Strong insurance channel experience and understanding (i.e. Medicare, Commercial etc.)

• 4+ years of pharmaceutical marketing insights experience with significant expertise with Physician and Consumer stakeholders.

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• 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.​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

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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. ​

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