Associate Director, Market Access Analytics, Insights & Data Science - Oncology

Job Description

The Marketing Analytics and Business Insights (MABI) function supports AbbVie’s US organization and is comprised of highly respected researchers, analysts, data scientists and strategists who are committed to being best-in-class within the biopharmaceutical industry.

We serve as a strategic in-house counsel, ensuring that all decisions leverage the key insights that we develop. We continue to build new capabilities and skill sets, encouraging our team members to pull up a chair, be themselves, be creative, speak their minds, and do good work.

We are a passionate, diverse, flexible, and inclusive organization with a culture that supports the best ideas, wherever they originate.

We are smart, fun, quirky, and innovative and we’d love for you to join us.

The Market Access Insights (MAI) organization within MABI plays an instrumental role in shaping market access strategies for all of AbbVie’s U.

S. brands. As a people leader of this team, you will lead the planning and delivery of standard and ad-hoc analytics to identify / quantify payer opportunities and threats and make specific recommendations on the development of market access strategies and tactics.

You will also lead and develop a team of analytical talent, develop analytical capabilities, enable organizational learning and outreach to matrix partners, and ensure alignment of analytical insights with the broader commercial goals of each brand.

The role requires strong data analytics capabilities as well as subject matter expertise within the overall U.S. market access environment, specifically an in depth understanding of value, pricing and reimbursement dynamics.

The role provides insights that directly impact patient and physician access to AbbVie brands through its influence on the development of pricing, contracting and other access strategies.

Major Responsibilities :

Lead standard / ad-hoc analytics across 3-4 brands within Oncology focused on providing insights that influence market access strategy through data analytics, customer insights and business knowledge.

Co-develop with U.S. Market Access commercial leaders, innovative Pricing and Contracting strategies to achieve optimal payer formulary access that maximize net sales for assigned brands.

Identify through claims analysis, market dynamics that shape brand demand and build models to portray risks, opportunities, and sensitivities.

Demonstrate strong understanding of the U.S. healthcare landscape and key AbbVie therapeutic areas to identify and proactively address opportunities and threats.

Build collaborative relationships with internal U.S. Market Access Sales and Marketing stakeholders. Align insights to Payer research and Brand insight partners, that when integrated with HCP and Consumer insights, positively impacts brand decision making.

Key areas of functional scope include :

Leading the delivery of brand specific market access analytical insights in response to specific market access issues / trends.

Understanding the impact of utilization management, tiering and medical policy impact on overall demand, line of therapy and co-pay support.

Conducting investigative analytics to validate and / or quantify market phenomenon related to competitive or customer tactics.

Identifying through quantitative methods, value drivers that guide clinical data development and value positioning.

Demonstrating a strong understanding of syndicated and AbbVie proprietary data, data science and modeling techniques and the ability to synthesize insights into compelling narratives.

Being highly proficient at supplier and stakeholder management, leading external analytics to deliver compelling learnings, and formulating analytical strategies appropriate for the issue at hand.

• Leading insights and analytics for understanding and recommending the development of any Specialty Pharmacy, Health Plan and PBM strategies across payer channels through research, analytics, and advanced modelling techniques, communicating narratives that describe the opportunity and risks and informing financial projections based on pricing and contracting strategies.
• Responsible for leading the communication of market access insights to leadership requiring a broad range of market access expertise as these brands commonly experience differing market access challenges.
• Managing up to 3 direct reports, including talent recruiting and development as well as oversight of external vendor support.
• Advising cross-functional partners on key data / analytics infrastructure enhancements to enable superior analytical capabilities.

Qualifications

Required :

• Bachelor’s degree
• 10+ years of market research and analytics professional experience including some experience in the healthcare industry
• 1+ years of experience people management
• Strong story telling skills; ability to distill complex information synthesized into concise and impactful messages and communications

Preferred :

• Master’s degree or MBA
• Strong working knowledge of syndicated pharmaceutical data sources, including formulary data sources and claims data sources
• 3+ years of pharmaceutical market access experience and subject matter expertise with Health Plans, PBMs, Hospital Systems, Specialty Pharmacies and Healthcare Policy stakeholders.
• 4+ years of pharmaceutical marketing analytics experience
• Oncology knowledge

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.

This job is eligible to participate in our long-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.

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