Associate Director, Oncology GPO Analytics and Data Science

Job Opportunity At 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 immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

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 on this team, you will lead the planning and delivery of standard and ad-hoc analytics to identify/ quantify Oncology Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) and account opportunities and threats and make specific recommendations on the development of market access strategies and tactics for this channel. 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 and modeling capabilities, as well as subject matter expertise within the overall U.S. market access environment, specifically an in depth understanding of value, contracting and account dynamics. The role provides insights that directly impact patient and physician access to AbbVie brands through its influence on the development of Oncology GPO contracting and other strategies.

Major Responsibilities

Lead standard / ad-hoc analytics across 3-5 brands within Oncology focused on providing insights that influence market access Oncology GPO and account strategies through data analytics, customer insights and business knowledge. Co-develop with U.S. Market Access commercial leaders, innovative contracting strategies to maximize net sales for assigned brands. Identify market dynamics that shape brand demand and build models to portray risks, opportunities, and sensitivities of different contracting scenarios. Demonstrate strong understanding of the U.S. healthcare landscape and key AbbVie Oncology therapeutic areas to identify and proactively address opportunities and threats. Build collaborative relationships with internal U.S. Market Access Field and Marketing stakeholders. Align insights with Brand research and analytics partners, that when integrated with HCP and Consumer insights, positively impact 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 contracting and pathways on utilization management and on overall demand.
• Conducting investigative analytics to validate and / or quantify market phenomenon related to competitive or customer tactics.
• 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 analytics to deliver compelling learnings, and formulating analytical strategies appropriate for the issue at hand.
• Leading analytics for understanding and recommending the development of any Oncology GPO and account strategies across GPO channels through research, analytics, and advanced modelling techniques, communicating narratives that describe the opportunity and risks and informing financial projections based on contracting strategies.
• Responsible for leading the communication of market access insights to leadership requiring a broad range of account and market access expertise
• Managing up to 4 direct reports, including talent recruiting and development, as well as oversight of external vendor support.
• Advising cross-functional partners on key data, analytics and infrastructure enhancements to enable superior analytical capabilities.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree
• 10+ years of market research, data science and analytics professional experience, preferably in the healthcare industry
• 1-2 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 Oncology GPO data sources and chargeback data sources
• 3-4 years of pharmaceutical market access experience and subject matter expertise with Oncology GPOs, Community Practices and Hospital Systems
• 4-6 years of pharmaceutical marketing analytics experience
• Oncology knowledge
• Proven people development and leadership skills

Additional Information

• 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

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