Associate Director – PCS Price Forecasting

PowerToFly; Illinois; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package including PTO/medical

Long-term incentive programs

Job summary

AbbVie seeks a senior professional to manage US pipeline price forecasting, shaping pricing across early to late-stage assets. You will align with USMAx and work cross-functionally to impact gross and net pricing, including IRA considerations and policy impacts.

The role reports to the Director, PCS Price Forecasting, within US Strategic Pricing, and requires strong Excel skills, stakeholder management, and strategic pricing expertise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting/ Finance/Data Science/Business Management, required.
• 7–11 years progressive pricing or finance/accounting experience.
• Strong understanding of US pharmaceutical pricing and dynamics.
• Ability to identify problems, analyze data, and propose solutions.
• Familiar with AbbVie policies (CFMs) and GAAP.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• MBA in Marketing/Strategy or Finance and/or CPA/CMA preferred.
• Multi-division experience and FP&A knowledge preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serve as SME guiding US pricing, market access and IRA considerations across therapeutic areas.
• Independently manage pipeline assets and BD evaluations with minimal guidance.
• Build trusted partnerships and act as a strategic thought partner.
• Evaluate pricing approaches to shape price potential with cross-functional partners.
• Define pricing hypotheses and conduct scenario analyses with key stakeholders.
• Provide input on pricing for BD opportunities using available data.
• Collaborate with USMAx Pipeline and MABI for primary/secondary pricing research.
• Coordinate BD and pricing guidance reviews with executive leadership.
• Provide pricing data across finance processes including model creation and leadership briefings.
• Conduct ad hoc pricing analytics such as benchmarking and gross-to-net analysis.

Skills

Pricing strategy

Finance analytics

Stakeholder management

Advanced Excel

Problem solving

Communication

Leadership

Adaptability/ambiguity handling

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting/Finance/Data Science/Business Management

Tools

Excel

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 primary objective of this position will be responsible for managing US pipeline price forecasting. This involves supporting the translation of the value in our assets & indications into optimal launch pricing, across AbbVie’s early to late-stage pipeline assets. They will be responsible for aligning with the USMAx pipeline market access organization and shall also work within a cross-functional matrix of stakeholders for their Brands/Indications to ensure effective shaping of the price potential of our assets, through utilization of our strategic pricing approach and advanced modelling techniques. They are also responsible for driving key scenario analysis such as Gross to Net optimization, Policy impact (IRA/MFN) on pricing, Price Volume Time Tradeoffs and indication sequencing during BD assessments, LRP & off-cycle Governances.This position is a full-time role that reports to the Director, PCS Price Forecasting, in US Strategic Pricing org.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a subject matter expert and guide cross-functional teams on U.S. pricing, market access, reimbursement, and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) considerations by therapeutic area to objectively assess and communicate their impact on U.S. gross and net pricing
• Independently manage pipeline assets and business development evaluations for designated therapeutic areas with minimal guidance
• Build trusted partnerships with key stakeholders and act as a strategic thought partner
• Evaluate & integrate new pricing approaches to inform and shape pipeline asset price potential and implications, by proactively engaging, contributing and liaising with key cross functional partners (USMAx Pipeline, MABI, Finance, BD, Commercial)
• Define pricing hypothesis, and conduct scenario analysis, supporting the development of pricing guidance, in collaboration with USMAx Pipeline, MABI, Finance and other relevant key stakeholders.
• Provide input and guidance on the pricing potential for business development (BD) opportunities by undertaking rapid assessments with the best available data to identify the risks and opportunities that may affect the final asset valuation
• Responsible for collaborating with USMAx Pipeline TA & MABI to support primary and secondary pricing market research using appropriate methodologies aligned with a Strategic Pricing approach
• Coordinating and ensuring appropriate review and approval of BD, early price & pricing guidance across their Brands and indications for preparation of review with Executive Leadership
• Provide accurate and timely pricing information, across pricing and finance processes (LRP) including harmonization and collation of pricing assumptions, creation of price models, coordination of touchpoints with TA team & leadership briefing presentations
• Ad Hoc pricing analytics, such as but not limited to; external price benchmarking, gross to net analysis, IRA economics etc.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting/ Finance/Data Science/Business Management, required.
• Requires 7-11 years progressive pricing or finance/accounting/pricing & access experience.
• Good understanding of the fundamentals of the U.S. pharmaceutical pricing landscape and the key dynamics that influence it.
• Demonstrated ability and motivation to proactively identify and evaluate business problems and opportunities.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify issues early and gather, analyze, and interpret relevant data to support solutions.
• Ideally familiar with the framework of AbbVie financial policies (CFMs) and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
• Demonstrated appropriate level of AbbVie leadership attributes and behaviors, this role requires high levels of competence, confidence, and credibility.
• Ability to deal with uncertainty, to make decisions and working effectively with ambiguity
• Advanced excel skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, stakeholder management skills.
• Preferred: MBA in Marketing/Strategy or Finance and/or CPA/CMA.
• Preferred: Multi-division experience and knowledge of the financial planning process.
• Preferred: Knowledge and hands-on experience in the following aspects:
  • Experience designing or implementing pricing strategies and scenario assessments.
  • Extensive knowledge of US channel mix and GTN dynamics

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 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 employer 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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