Manager, Patient Experience – Parkinson’s Disease

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

We have an opportunity for a Patient Experience Manager in our AbbVie Care for Neuroscience division. In this role, you will be responsible for managing cross-functional cooperation by coordinating an effective multidisciplinary field team to ensure strategic and tactical alignment between cross-functional team members and other field-based and brand team activities.

Responsibilities

• Leverage a strong strategic approach and understanding of the patient journeys, AbbVie Care analytics, access, and reimbursement to ensure the AbbVie Care experience is optimized for patients on our Parkinson’s medications.
• Develop & Implement AbbVie Care regional and national strategic Parkinson’s Disease patient support program (PSP) plan.
• Build coordinated and cross functional plans involving the AbbVie Care field-based teams to target specific opportunities to improve our PSP offerings.
• Work closely with clinics and health care professionals (HCPs) in order to adjust program elements as required nationally.
• Foster proactive continued quality improvement and conduct regular reviews with a targeted group of HCPs.
• Identify opportunities and key projects where patient care could be optimized and build and lead the targeted action plans.
• Ensure key projects are properly scoped and managed to meet quality and budget objectives, as well as tied to specified timelines and milestones. 
• Lead and execute AbbVie Care cross-functional initiatives or special projects that will enhance patient-focused services and solutions.
• Work in the field and perform regular calls with physicians and/or office staff to execute project plans and build strong customer relationships nationally.
• Develop relationships and gain trust quickly with internal and external partners.
• Ensure compliance to all policies and procedures, to IMC and PIPEDA guidelines as well as internal standard operating procedures.

Requirements

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Science, or Medical designation is preferred but not required.

Experience and knowledge

• Relevant experience with proven track record of success within biotech/pharma
• Broad business perspective and strong understanding of strategic drivers
• Strong patient support program experience is critical
• Compile patient and customer insights from data and analytics
• Strong understanding of reimbursement & access landscape
• Project management principles and methods

Essential skills and abilities

• Lead cross-functional plans with colleagues not under your direct supervision.
• Strong decision-making behaviour and prioritization to ensure efficient use of resources and address critical issues impacting the patient, PSP and brands.
• Work effectively as part of a high-performing team.
• Ability to negotiate projects, resources and timelines
• Deliver high quality customer service & client management to partners of the program.
• Demonstrate political savvy and strong business acumen.
• Strong English communication skills (written and verbal).
• Québec based PEM must be fluently bilingual French and English, oral and written
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
• Intermediate knowledge of specific databases such as FORCE

Travel

• Travel within the district/territory and national meetings about 40-60% of the time (this can vary from one territory to another).
• Available to work outside works hours, on occasion.

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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