Associate Director, Oncology Market Access Marketing

PowerToFly; Illinois; On-site; USD 170,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking an Oncology Market Access Marketing Associate Director to lead payer-strategy activities ensuring patient access to the brand. This role integrates market access insights into cross-functional and financial decisions for launch execution and sustained performance.

Responsibilities include monitoring payer policy, tracking launch readiness, and leading access governance forums across Brand, Finance, and Market Access teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required to enable business acumen and scientific/financial analysis.
• Experience in marketing or market access with a relevant product is required.
• Understanding of Medicare/Commercial aspects and utilization management is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Monitor payer policy landscape and provide regular updates.
• Track launch readiness metrics and report to leadership.
• Represent Market Access in cross-functional governance forums.
• Lead cross-functional access forums to identify and resolve access challenges.
• Support channel-specific strategies with brand and access leadership.
• Plan and execute advisory boards to gather insights for future strategy.

Skills

Market access planning

Payer strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

Financial analysis

Pre-launch planning

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Job description

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 atwww.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie onLinkedIn,Facebook,Instagram,XandYouTube.

Job Description

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.

Qualifications

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.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state orlocal law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at the timeof this posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemayultimatelypaymore or less than the posted range. This range may bemodifiedin thefuture.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.
• This job is eligible toparticipatein our long-term incentiveprograms.

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employeeremains in the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay bemodifiedat the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

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What AbbVie Has to Offer

Our work can—and does—have a tangible, lasting impact on millions of people. But it’s not just the results that matter. How we achieve them matters, too. Leading with purpose, we work to build a more sustainable future for generations to come. We do that by putting our expertise, resources and talent to work to make a real difference for patients, communities and our world.