Associate Director, Marketing Oncology

AbbVie Inc.; Mettawa (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie Inc. is seeking an Oncology Market Access Marketing Associate Director to lead payer-strategy activities and ensure patient access to the brand.

The role integrates market access insights into cross-functional and financial planning, supporting launch execution and sustained brand performance. The candidate will monitor payer policy landscapes, track activation metrics, and represent Market Access in governance forums, driving evidence-based decisions and channel strategies with Brand and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required to enable business acumen, the ability to process scientific information and financial analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to understand clinical aspects of a pharmaceutical product and its application to marketing strategy and tactical execution.
• 5-7 years of marketing or market access experience required
• Previous experience supporting HCP-administered assets.
• Knowledge of the Commercial and Medicare FFS aspects of the Medical Benefit and associated utilization management and reimbursement dynamics.

Responsibilities

• Monitor the payer policy landscape and produce regular policy updates in partnership with market access analytics teams.
• Track account activation and launch-readiness metrics; synthesize field insights; and provide regular reporting to leadership.
• Represent Market Access in cross-functional governance forums, including brand team meetings and forecasting.
• Lead a recurring cross-functional access forum to identify, prioritize, and resolve access challenges and opportunities.
• Support the development and finalization of channel-specific strategies with brand and market access leadership.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to plan and execute advisory boards that generate insights for future strategy.
• Manage budget stewardship and vendor or agency processes.
• Partner with analytics and research teams to build evidence bases, including market research.
• Support conference and congress engagement opportunities to inform future strategy.

Skills

Market access experience

Payer strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

Budget stewardship

Financial analysis

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree (preferred)

Job 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 www.abbvie.com . Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook , Instagram , X and YouTube.

Role Overview

The Oncology Market Access Marketing Associate Director, DECNUPAZ Associate Director, leads payer-strategy activities that help ensure seamless patient access to the brand. This role integrates market access insights into cross-functional and financial strategic decisions while building the evidence, partnerships, and operational readiness required for effective launch execution and sustained brand performance.

Key Responsibilities

Core/Primary Responsibilities: Access Monitoring, Launch Execution, and Strategic Decision-Making

• Monitor the payer policy landscape and produce regular policy updates and communications in partnership with market access analytics teams.
• Track account activation and launch-readiness metrics; synthesize field insights; and provide regular reporting to commercial leadership and executive business reviews.
• Represent Market Access in cross-functional brand governance forums, including brand team meetings, annual strategy and planning, long-range planning, and latest best estimate forecasting, to ensure access realities inform strategic and financial decisions.
• Lead a recurring cross-functional access forum to proactively identify, prioritize, and resolve access challenges and opportunities.
• Support the development and finalization of channel-specific strategies, including community oncology and group purchasing organization (GPO) strategies, in partnership with brand and market access leadership.

Secondary Responsibilities: Building the Evidence and Execution Foundation for Future Planning Cycles

• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to plan and execute advisory boards that generate insights for future brand and market access strategy.
• Manage budget stewardship and vendor or agency processes, including scope-of-work submissions and optimization of available funds.
• Partner with market access analytics and research teams to build evidence bases, including market research, that support future tactical execution.

Additional Responsibilities: Informing Future Strategic Engagement

• Support research and evaluation of conference and congress engagement opportunities to inform future brand presence and stakeholder-engagement strategy.

Scope & Remit

The Payer Strategy Associate Director serves as a strategic Market Access representative across the brand and enterprise. The role influences cross-functional and financial decisions by translating payer, channel, and access realities into actionable recommendations, priorities, and operating plans.

Collaborates across Market Access, Brand, Finance, Trade, Medical, and external vendors and agencies, representing the market access point of view in decision-making forums.

Owns defined operational cadences, including weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly reporting, governance meetings, and cross-functional access forums.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree required to enable this individual to demonstrate an appropriate level of business acumen, the ability to process scientific information and financial analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to understand clinical aspects of a pharmaceutical product and its application to marketing strategy and tactical execution.
• 5-7 years of marketing or market access experience required
• Previous experience supporting HCP-administered assets.
• Knowledge of the Commercial and Medicare FFS aspects of the Medical Benefit and associated utilization management and reimbursement dynamics.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous Oncology experience strongly preferred, but not required
• 3 years of US Market Access experience preferred
• Pre-launch activities and Market Access launch experience
• Demonstrated understanding of financial planning and analysis
• Master’s Degree

Key Leadership Competencies:

• Builds strong relationships with peers and internal matrix partners to enable exceptional performance and seamless execution of key deliverables.
• Exceptional learning agility, grasps the “essence” and can change the course quickly when necessary.
• Raises the bar and is never satisfied with the status quo.
• Cultivates a learning environment, open to suggestions and experimentation for improvement.
• Embraces the ideas of others, nurtures innovation, and manages innovation to reality.
• Positive, solutions-oriented attitude required.

Key Collaborators/Stakeholders

Market Access field teams; market access analytics and research partners; Brand Marketing; Finance; Trade; Medical Affairs; GPO Marketing; and external agency and vendor partners.

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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.

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