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 Senior Paralegal, U.S. Market Access will be part of the U.S. Market Access Legal Team and will report to the Associate General Counsel, U.S. Market Access. Working with the Associate General Counsel and other team members, this position will be responsible for (i) negotiating, drafting and ensuring that contracts for AbbVie’s U.S. Market Access organization, including commercial rebate, trade, and distribution service agreements, meet AbbVie’s legal standards and client requirements and (ii) assisting the Market Access Legal team on a broad range of related legal, compliance, and regulatory issues.

Responsibilities

Works independently on a wide variety of contracts, including negotiation and resolution of legal issues raised in the following areas: confidentiality, purchase discounts, distribution services, and payer commercial rebate agreements.
Proactively identifies and resolves routine and moderately complex legal matters in area of responsibility with minimal supervision.
Represents AbbVie externally to customers, suppliers, competitors, opposing counsel or government agencies and resolves legal issues using negotiation skills and paralegal experience.
Performs independent analysis of unique problems and proposes solutions.
Assists attorneys in resolving complex legal issues on projects involving multiple disciplines within legal department and/or multiple functional areas or divisions within AbbVie.
Possesses solid knowledge of the AbbVie businesses supported and knowledge of the broader business impact.
Keeps abreast of changes in laws that affect client areas. Advises legal department managers of critical project developments in a timely manner.
Executes core job responsibilities in a timely manner.
Assigned matters generally have a significant impact on business activities and operations.
Interacts across all levels of management.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree and / or relevant legal education (Paralegal certificate).
Minimum 5 years of paralegal experience including significant experience in negotiating contracts and one year in a corporate environment.
Excellent oral/written communication, organization/analytical and interpersonal skills, attention to detail, and project management abilities are all required.
Must be able to multi-task, analyze information, understand client needs, collaborate effectively with team members and manage own work priorities and meet deadlines.
Proficient in area of responsibility.
Experience with pharmaceuticals and/or commercial market access matters preferred.

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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