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

The 340B Drug Pricing program has become a critical issue impacting AbbVie’s business. Originally designed to help safety-net hospitals and clinics give better care to underserved communities, it has now grown exponentially, and deserves a greater level of focus. Over the past few years, AbbVie has implemented important strategies and policy changes to tackle this growth, but its impact on AbbVie’s portfolio and the complexity of the 340B related issues now require a more dedicated, strategically resourced approach.

Therefore, AbbVie has established a high profile, 340B Center of Excellence (COE), that brings together a team of experts who will utilize analytics and insights to drive strategy, proactively address the growth of 340B and create new solutions to the industrywide abuse within the program. COE leaders will work with Government Affairs and Legal to develop longer-term solutions and shape reforms while simultaneously collaborating with essential partners, including the Marketing, Finance, Market Access, Public Affairs and other key partners to deliver meaningful business solutions and impact.

The 340B COE Business Operations Analyst is a member of a group with technical expertise in the business and operations of the 340B program; the group (1) maintains and enforces AbbVie’s 340B program, (2) develops and maintains reporting to track performance, dashboard metrics, 340B entity eligibility compliance), (3) manages 340B duplicate discount scrubbing (4) manages Covered Entity eligibility policy and (5) develops modeling to show the impact of policies, initiatives and government actions. Develops outlier analyses, new tools, models and platforms to report 340B performance, and 340B forecasts. Provides modeling and analytical support for the 340B COE Strategy and Investigation group activities. Works closely with the 340B COE Strategy and Innovations Group and the Operations Enablement Leader and BTS to support team operations.

Primary responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to:

Core responsibilities are to oversee the elimination duplicate discounts “scrubbing,” the Contract Pharmacy Policy, and KPI and operations reporting.
Manage the elimination duplicate discounts “scrubbing” (in all channels: Medicaid, Commercial, Medicare) and oversee the process to identify 340B claims and produce the 340B related files for the Contract Management team to integrate into their rebate scrubbing process; work with the Govt. Pricing Medicaid team to resolve outstanding Medicaid duplicate discounts.
Develop and maintain the 340B Covered Entity hierarchy (“spine”) to link parent/ child and related site relationships to provide the 340B COE a complete profile of major 340B institutions.
Coordinate with the Operations Enablement Director and the Business Technology Support (BTS) lead to design 340B COE operations, scrubbing and reporting environment, integrating new data sources to improve the sophistication of 340B oversight and management.
Develop and refine 340B dashboard reporting, KPI tracking and measurements to show 340B initiative impact, scrubbing impact, and impact of mitigation initiatives. Reporting will track performance to 340B COE goals and targets and report progress. Coordinate with Finance and Marketing Analytics team.
Develop accurate 340B forecasting by brand to support Finance financial planning and reporting process.
Develop and refine outlier identification analysis (enhanced outlier detection model) and work with Investigation Team to identify drivers and inform development of mitigations.
Oversee vendors and contracts and inform Payer, Pharmacy and Wholesaler contracting.
Develop and foster robust internal relationships with other key stakeholders, including but not limited to Market Access/Trade, Employer Teams, Finance, Patient Services, MABI, etc.

Qualifications

Requires minimum of a bachelor’s degree.
A minimum of 5 years in the healthcare industry with significant financial, reporting, forecasting and modeling experience within the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry.
Experience with IQVIA data sources (e.g. HCOS data), Rx claims data, PBM rebate data.
Knowledge of 340B flows preferred.
Working knowledge of the compliance and regulatory environment for manufacturers in the pharmaceutical space.

Skills/Knowledge Required:

Experience building processes, putting into production prototype concepts, and improving the efficiency of operations
Possesses a curious and persistent mindset, comfortable in ambiguity.
Ability to simplify the complex and identify what’s is essential
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
Analytical and modeling expertise, financial acumen, ability to see, visualize and tell a story with numbers.
Ability to influence across functions to gain consensus on solutions.
Excellent management and organizational skills, along with problem solving, conflict resolution and team building.
Ability to effectively plan, prioritize, execute, follow up and anticipate problems.

Additional Information

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.
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.

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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