Market Access Lead (Leadership position)

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.

WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT TO YOU IN YOUR WORK?

For us, the most important thing is always the human being. Patients whose quality of life and functional capacity are supported by our treatments. Healthcare professionals for whom we develop state-of-the-art medical solutions. Employees for whom we offer meaningful work.

AbbVie is a community of knowledgeable people. You bring your own valuable contribution to it and get the opportunity to learn from other top professionals. Our communal corporate culture accepts people as individuals and supports everyone's personal development.

Our success as a work community is evidenced by our ranking among the best year after year in the Great Place to Work survey.

To strengthen our team, we are now looking for a

MARKET ACCESS LEAD

In this role you will be responsible for the development of national market access strategies across assigned assets amongst AbbVie’s portfolio to ensure access for the patients. Together with your team, you will be responsible for designing and implementing pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement projects, as well as hospital drug bidding processes and hospital-pharmacy customer relationships. Health economic analyses and RWE studies are familiar to you. You act as an expert in your own therapy area, with comprehensive responsibility for the Market Access measures in your area of responsibility. In addition, you support the Brand teams in your own therapy area. In your role, you will report to AbbVie's Market Access Director in Finland.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Leading your market access team in defined therapeutic area
• Responsible for developing the national market access strategy across assigned assets
• Work with relevant market access stakeholders to drive understanding of unmet need in relevant therapy areas and to shape responses and positions that help create a favorable access environment
• Proactively identify, pursue and convert opportunities for developing new and strengthening existing relationships with stakeholders and decision-makers
• Review existing and emerging sources of data that are relevant to infield materials, and advise on how these can be better applied to infield tools and materials
• Provide training, development and mentorship to the infield team
• Provide Brand teams market access leadership including driving the vision, strategies, plans and resource investment
• Lead market access strategy launch and post-launch through collaboration with the brand team
• Engage cross-functionally to ensure that there is clarity around the strategy and specific needs from the brand team
• Maintain expert knowledge of pricing and reimbursement landscape
• Understand the evolving nature of key external customers and communicate insights to the wider business

We are seeking a talented individual who is passionate about making possibilities real, who has strong interpersonal skills and an ability to translate vision into actionable plans. With your strategic and forward-looking mindset, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our business strategies and driving meaningful outcomes now and in the future.

We expect from you strong, prior experience in Market Access processes, new product launches in the pharmaceutical industry and knowledge of health economics, as well as managerial experience. You have a university degree suitable for the position, e.g. in the field of pharmacy or health economics. We expect expertise in drug evaluations, commissioning and hospital tendering, as well as interest in new products. This role requires skills for planning and execution at the same time. You will effectively solve future challenges independently and as part of a team. Working with the matrix and working in the client interface will work naturally for you. You communicate fluently in writing and verbally in both Finnish and English. As a manager, you have shown good examples of team leadership and engagement.

Interested? Join us at AbbVie Finland and be part of a team that is committed to excellence and making a remarkable impact on patients' lives. We offer a collaborative and supportive work environment, where your ideas are valued, and your professional growth is encouraged. You will get more information about the role by reaching out to Market Access Director Teemu Päivilä, on Thursday 23rd January from 9:00 to 10:00 and Monday 27th January from 15:00 to 16:00, tel. +358 50 9022 439. Please fill in your application and CV into our recruiting system by 31st January 2025 at the latest.

AbbVie is one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies that develops treatments for serious diseases, with a focus on immunological and neurological diseases, oncology and hematology, and eye diseases. Our aim is to improve the quality of life of people living with serious illnesses. For healthcare professionals, our goal is to offer best-in-class solutions or solutions that utilize new mechanisms of action. We want to be the best and most interesting workplace in the pharmaceutical industry. There are about 100 employees in Finland and our office is located in Pasila, Helsinki. Our patient-centered thinking is encapsulated in our motto 'Always human'.

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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