Manager, Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Temporary Contract

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 Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. 

* This is a temporary contract 12-15 months 

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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, vision care, virology, women’s health , and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

AbbVie is seeking a dynamic and experienced Manager in Market Access / Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) for a temporary assignment of 12 to 15 months. This role is pivotal in supporting our market access strategies and health economics initiatives in Canada. The incumbent will work collaboratively with our cross-functional teams to ensure the development and execution of innovative HEOR strategies that support the market access objectives of our pharmaceutical products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Developing market access, health economics & outcomes research strategies to gain / maintain / optimize reimbursement for new and existing products with various public and private payers;
• Developing submissions dossiers for CDA, INESSS and private payers, including the development of budgetary impact analyses and the development/adaptation of economic analyses. This requires:
• Liaising with the global market access organization to leverage the global value dossier, market access strategies & payer tools; 
• Liaising & collaborating with global health economics organization for the adaptation of economic analyses that support reimbursement strategies and submissions requirements to various payers, in alignment with the Canadian guidelines;
• Planning and coordinating Canadian health economics & outcomes studies to support strategies to gain / maintain / optimize reimbursement for new and existing products with various public and private payers, including
• Ensuring effective communication of health economics & outcomes studies progress and results to relevant audiences (e.g. investigators, brand team, etc.);
• Preparing abstracts/manuscripts of study results for publication / presentation, as required;
• Liaising with consultants, contract research organizations, economic experts, etc. on various health economics & outcomes research projects;
• Collaborating with clinical research on studies with economic and quality of life endpoints;
• Playing an active role on Brand Team to identify opportunities to work collaboratively with cross-functional colleagues to deliver on brand objectives.
• Monitoring timelines and budget expenditures for market access initiatives & health economics & outcomes studies.
• This position reports to the Specialty Head, Market access & HEOR

Education/Experience Required:

• Bachelor Degree in Science; Bachelor Degree in Pharmacy or Pharm.D;
• Graduate Degree in pharmacoeconomics, epidemiology or drug development, an asset.
• 3-5 years of experience in a similar role in pharmaceutical industry
• The ideal candidate should have expertise in market access, pharmacoeconomic and outcomes research with pertinent experience in the pharmaceutical industry, including previous experience directly dealing with payers and health technology agencies. 
• Strong commercial/ business background an asset.

Essential Skills & Abilities:

• Strong clinical acumen or ability to acquire it quickly, across different therapeutic areas.
• Strong communication effectiveness, medical writing (technical) skills and presentation skills.
• Strategic thinking, analytical and data interpretation skills to support the development of compelling value propositions addressing public and private payer needs.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills and team player. Work with field-based Market Access & Government Affairs team, Brand Teams and global Market Access & HEOR organization to develop strategies and tools to fully leverage value stories with customers.
• Initiative and Action-driven. Translate market access & HEOR strategies into actionable and realistic plans to maximize reimbursement opportunities for Abbvie products in a timely manner.
• Ability to prioritize & project management skills. Ability to manage multiple projects across different therapeutic areas and work well under stress (timelines).
• High quality standards & rigor; detail oriented.
• Understanding of public and private drug reimbursement landscape and health technology assessment process and submission requirements in Canada.
• Understanding of pharmacoeconomic principles / guidelines and methodological developments, as well as experience in development of economic studies in collaboration with internal (e.g. Medical department, global HEOR) and external (e.g. academic, research organizations) experts.
• Participated to publication process/RWE/data generation projects.
• Previous experience dealing directly with payers, an asset.
• Proficient with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) as well as Outlook. 
• Incumbent is also required to work with databases, such as Payer specific databases (e.g. PharmaStat, RxDynamics, etc.), and clinical trial databases as well as having experience working with Decision modeling (TreeAge) database.

• Travel: Availability to travel within Canada about 10 % of the time and 10% of the time internationally.
• Valid Passport and driver’s license required.

AbbVie strives to provide a French working environment for its employees in Quebec. Although as part of its francization program has taken all reasonable steps to avoid imposing the following requirement, advanced amount of knowledge of English / Fluency in English is an essential requirement for the position of Market Access and HEOR Manager including, but not limited to, for the following reasons:

1. English speaking employees outside the province of Quebec.
2. English speaking clients outside the province of Quebec.
3. Anglophone region outside the province of Quebec.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women, Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities to apply.

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