Director, International Market Access, Neuroscience

Company Description

About AbbVie

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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at . Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook , Instagram , X and YouTube.

Job Description

The International Market Access & Pricing (IMAP) Team leads the market access strategies and planning for pipeline as well as on market products.

This role will leverage your clinical understanding, expertise of Evidence Based Medicine, alongside deep global payer knowledge, and competitive insights to shape Phase II/III clinical development programs for pre-launch compounds.

IMAP director, PD and Psychosis reports to the VP IMAP, Neuroscience and is accountable for the following:

• Develop the Global Integrated Access Strategy (IAS) for the Parkinson’s Disease (including Produodopa, Duodopa and Tavapadon) and Psychosis (primarily Emraclidine) portfolio focused on  Pricing, Reimbursement and Access (PRA)  consistent with the commercial strategy
  • Lead the VAT on creation/maintenance of core payer materials, support of HTA submissions, and optimization of payer evidence generation
  • Identify/manage competitive opportunities/threats from a market access perspective for the Psychiatry and Parkinson’s portfolio
• Lead the development of Global IASs for assets within the pipeline, notably within disease areas such as depression, bipolar, and schizophrenia
• Develop/maintain the  Payer Value Story (consistent with the Brand Story) for all assets/indications in assigned portfolio
• Lead team of direct reports to  develop compelling core Payer materials  based on deep payer insights
• Assessing/challenging key market access assumptions as part of the  Financial Planning Process (LRP/Plan)
• Collaboratively works with Area and Affiliates to customize approaches

Key Responsibilities Include:

• The ideal candidate will support the global effort to integrate payer value messages for the assigned portfolio (i.e. Parkinson’s and Psychosis) into our clinical and evidence-base assessments and develop key market access deliverables in line with Abbvie’ s PIVOTAL PRA Excellence framework and the asset playbook.
• At appropriate, ensure Global, Area and Affiliate implementation of the Abbvie launch readiness to achieve PRA. Focus will be on all International markets (EU5, CA, BR, RU, CH, JP)
• Provide input into clinical development programs to ensure endpoints (i.e., clinical, economic and humanistic outcomes) are incorporated that will optimize price, reimbursement and ultimately patient access globally.
• Proactively ensure reimbursement considerations are incorporated into global market access strategy as well as multi-functional therapeutic and product assessments throughout key clinical development milestones and strategic commercial decisions.
• Generate initial global payer value propositions for new products that are aligned with the product’s total emerging value proposition (physicians, payers, and patients) and the product’s target product profile (TPP).
• Collaborate with GHEOR, Clinical Evidence & Outcomes (CE&O) team, policy, International Marketing & Commercial Operations, Pipeline Commercial Strategy, Area market access and other functions, to ensure solid understanding of global payer markets and emerging stakeholders in the reimbursement area.
• Maintaining therapeutic area specific department budgetary activities

Qualifications

Basic:

• 10- 15 years of experience in Pricing and Market Access, ideally at a global, area of or 5LBU country level
• Education: B.A/B.S required

Preferred:

• Strong clinical and disease area knowledge
• Experience in developing and managing market access strategies globally
• Experience in payer trends, evaluating drivers of market access success
• Knowledge of pricing policy & regulations and healthcare in key markets
• Understanding of regulatory agency requirements or policies that govern market approval, and the impact on reimbursement decisions
• Working knowledge of health economic modeling
• Education: prefer degree in a scientific or economic area. MBA preferred

Key Leadership Competencies:

• Builds strong relationships with peers and cross functionally with partners outside of team to enable higher performance
• Learns, fast, grasps the 'essence' and can change the course quickly as needed
• Raises the bar and is never satisfied with the status quo
• Creates a learning environment, open to suggestions and experimentation for improvement
• Embraces the ideas of others, nurtures innovation and manages innovation to reality
• Exhibits resilience and perseverance attributes

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 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.​

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. 

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