Associate Manager, Market Access Analytics

About the role

The Analytics & Performance Excellence (APEX) 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.

The Market Access & Patient Services (MAPS) organization within the Analytics & Performance Excellence (APEX) team plays an instrumental role in shaping market access and patient service strategies for all of AbbVie's domestic brands.

As a member of this team, you will plan and execute standard and ad-hoc analytics to identify/ quantify payer opportunities and threats, make specific recommendations on the development of market access/patient service strategies and tactics, develop analytical capabilities, enable organizational learning, and ensure alignment of analytical insights with the broader commercial goals of each brand.

The role requires foundational data analytics training and experience in the pharmaceutical or related industry. 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 strategies.

Major Responsibilities

Execute standard/ ad-hoc analytics on a key brand focused on providing insights that influence market access strategy through data analytics, customer insights and business knowledge. Assist in the development with U.S. Market Access commercial leaders, innovative Pricing and Contracting strategies to achieve optimal payer formulary access that maximize net sales for assigned Specialty therapeutic areas.

• Identify through claims analysis, market dynamics that shape brand demand and build models to portray risks, opportunities, and sensitivities.
• Demonstrate foundational 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 Brand insight partners, that when integrated with HCP and Consumer insights, positively impacts brand decision making.

Key areas of functional scope include

• Delivering analytics to inform GPO, Specialty Pharmacy, Health Plan and PBM contracting strategies for specialty brands across payer channels through data modelling techniques, conveying analytical narratives that describe the opportunity and risks of stakeholder negotiations, and informing financial projections based on launch pricing and contracting strategies.
• Delivering 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 foundational understanding of syndicated and AbbVie proprietary data, data science and modeling techniques and the ability to synthesize insights into compelling narratives. Under guidance, is proficient at supplier and stakeholder management, executing external analytics to deliver compelling learnings, and executing analytical strategies appropriate for the issue at hand.
• Responsible for effective communication of market access analytical insights to leadership.

Qualifications & Requirements

Required

• Bachelor's degree
• 2 - 4 years of professional experience.
• 2+ years of related industry experience in data analytics.
• Proficient in SQL, Python, or other experience in querying structured databases for insights.
• Strong story telling skills; ability to distill complex information synthesized into concise and impactful messages and communications.

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.