Principal Data Scientist, 340B Strategy & Analytics

Allergan; Mettawa (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

AbbVie in Illinois seeks a Principal Data Scientist to lead analytics for the 340B Center of Excellence. This high-impact individual contributor role drives strategic insights and scalable analytical solutions across healthcare data, including 340B terminology, policies, and provider operations.

The ideal candidate has deep healthcare/pharma analytics experience, strong data modeling and visualization skills, and the ability to translate complex data into clear business recommendations for

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree; master’s preferred in a quantitative field.
• 5–10+ years in healthcare analytics, pharma preferred.
• Deep knowledge of 340B concepts and data ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Lead analytics projects supporting 340B strategy, optimization, and operations.
• Build scalable data models, dashboards, and analytical tools.
• Translate complex analyses into actionable executive recommendations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align analytics with business priorities.
• Stay current with evolving 340B requirements and data sources.

Skills

Advanced analytics

Data modeling

Dashboards

Data governance

Executive storytelling

Collaboration

Python

SQL

Visualization tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Statistics/Math/Data Science

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Python

SQL

BI tools

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 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.

Job Description

The 340B Drug Pricing program has become an increasingly important area of focus impacting AbbVie’s business. Originally designed to help safety-net hospitals and clinics provide better care to underserved communities, the program has grown significantly in scale and complexity. As a result, AbbVie has established a high profile, 340B Center of Excellence (COE), that brings together a team of experts who leverage analytics, insights, and innovative solutions to support strategy, strengthen program oversight, and address emerging industry challeng.

The 340B COE Principal Data Scientist will join the team with deep expertise in the business and operations of the 340B program. The team is responsible for maintaining and strengthening AbbVie’s 340B program, developing reporting and dashboards to track performance and entity eligibility compliance, managing duplicate discount detection and remediation, supporting covered entity eligibility policy, and building models to assess the impact of policy changes, initiatives, and government actions. This role will develop advanced analytics, outlier detection, new tools, models, and platforms to monitor 340B performance and forecast future trends.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Principal Data Scientist to lead advanced analytical initiatives supporting AbbVie’s 340B Center of Excellence. This high-impact individual contributor role operates at a Senior Manager level and will drive strategic insights, develop scalable analytical solutions, and partner with cross-functional teams to support enterprise decision making.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in healthcare and pharmaceutical data, including familiarity with the 340B program, along with strong analytical rigor and the ability to translate complex data into actionable business recommendations.

Primary responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to:

Analytics, Data Science & Modeling

• Lead the design and execution of advanced analytical projects supporting 340B strategy, optimization, and operations using large, complex healthcare and pharmaceutical datasets
• Support the prevention and elimination of duplicate discounts and diversion in all channels
• Build and maintain scalable data models, dashboards, and analytical tools to support data-driven decision making across the organization
• Manage the full analytics process, including data sourcing, cleansing, exploration, modeling, and validation
• Integrate new data sources to improve 340B program oversight, monitoring and management
• Develop predictive and prescriptive models to forecast utilization, identify leakage, and drive program optimization
• Apply advanced modeling approaches, such as knowledge graphs, to integrate diverse data sources (e.g. claims, EHR, wholesaler, etc.) and uncover hidden relationships for better decision support
• Evaluate and integrate emerging AI tools to enhance analytical capabilities
• Translate complex analyses into clear, actionable recommendations for senior leadership
• Stay current with evolving 340B program requirements, healthcare data sources, emerging technologies, and industry best practices

Data Strategy & Enablement

• Design scalable data solutions, frameworks, and best practices to enhance analytical capabilities
• Improve data quality, governance, and integrity across 340B-related datasets
• Contribute to the continued evolution of the 340B Center of Excellence through innovation and continuous improvement

Partnership and Communication

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align analytics with business priorities
• Serve as a trusted advisor on policy and operational decisions through data-driven insights
• Develop presentations and materials that distill complex analyses into strategic narratives, including strong data storytelling and visualization
• Strengthen dashboard reporting, KPI tracking, and measurement of 340B initiative impact

Qualifications

• Education: Requires minimum of a bachelor’s degree (master’s degree preferred), in fields including Statistics, Business Analytics, Mathematics, Data Science, Computer Science, Economics, or another quantitative discipline
• Experience: 5-10+ years of professional experience in healthcare with significant advanced analytics, reporting, and modeling experience within the pharmaceuticals industry; proven success delivering high-impact pharmaceutical insights from large, complex datasets
• Domain Expertise: Strong understanding of healthcare business dynamics and data; knowledge of 340B flows highly preferred
• Technical Proficiencies: Advanced proficiency in programming languages and querying tools, advanced analytics and modeling, and visualization tools
• Leadership Skills: Strong strategic thinking, problem solving, intellectual curiosity, communication and the ability to translate complex data into compelling executive storytelling

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 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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