Associate Director, Marketing- Eye Care, Market Access- Irvine, CA

AbbVie; Irvine; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pharmaceutical company is seeking a strategic leader for their Eye Care Brands in Irvine, UK. The role involves developing payer strategies and aligning market access initiatives, requiring a Bachelor's Degree and over 5 years of experience in the industry. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills, market access knowledge, and a customer-centric approach. This position offers a competitive benefits package and opportunities for incentive participation.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Short-term incentive programs

Long-term incentive programs

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience, preferably in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Demonstrated team leadership with a cross-functional perspective.
• Strong knowledge of reimbursement and payer environment.

Responsibilities

• Drive payer strategy and pricing for Eye Care brands.
• Develop and lead payer positioning and contracting strategy.
• Collaborate on Market Access business plans and initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Market Access

Health Economics

Communication Skills

Customer Centric Mindset

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

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

Responsible for driving payer strategy and pricing strategy for the Eye Care Brands across all payer channels (e.g. Commercial, Medicare, Medicaid, and VA). This individual will be required to effectively orchestrate communication and alignment across US Market Access channel teams as well as serve as the subject matter expert for an Eye Care Integrated Brand Teams. Leverage data and analytics, along with customer insights to make strategic decisions for the Eye Care business. Provides positive leadership and influences cultural alignment with the US Market Access cultural vision and goals.

Major responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Develop payer positioning and contracting strategy for Eye Care business across all payer channels.
• Formulate and adjust Market Access business plans and actions to achieve Eye Care Franchise business and financial market access objectives and goals.
• Ensure Market Access strategic alignment and business priorities.
• Lead Payer Value Propositions throughout the brand lifecycle by collaborative leadership on HEOR and RWE needs, gaps, and priorities.
• Proactively monitor and engage on government and/or payer policy that has the potential to affect access to the medical benefit products in Eye Care.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Market Access team and IBT members to develop and execute tactics to help the Brand achieve annual goals and financial obligations
• This individual will effectively orchestrate communication and drive strategic alignment across multiple stakeholders and leadership teams such as the Market Access Leadership Team, Brand Team, Account Management teams, and across multiple HEOR, MOSL, Medical, Reimbursement Advisor Teams, MABI, Finance, Sales, and Government Affairs/Advocacy teams.
• Encouraging and demonstrating an enterprise approach through best practice curiosity, learning, and sharing
• The person will demonstrate a “One AbbVie” mindset and perspective in all strategies.

Qualifications

*Candidate must be local to Irvine, CA**

• Bachelor’s Degree required
• 5+ years of industry experience, preferred in the pharmaceutical industry
• Demonstrated team leadership
• Market Access and Marketing experience preferred
• Strong knowledge of Health Economics, and Real World Evidence
• Customer centric mindset
• Strong communication skills
• Demonstrated cross-functional experience
• Understanding of reimbursement, payer environment, environmental risks and National Account customers valued.
• Experience in multiple channels and reimbursement modalities valued: buy and bill, retail, specialty, institutional and government
• Positive, solutions-oriented attitude

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.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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