Senior Manager, Business Analytics - Emerging Channels

AbbVie; Illinois; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking a Senior Manager, Market Access Insights to lead analytics that shape payer strategies across the U.S. market. You will drive standard and ad-hoc analyses, leveraging claims data and market research to identify opportunities and threats for AbbVie brands.

You will synthesize complex data into actionable recommendations, partner with Govt. Affairs and Finance, and mentor teams in advanced modeling and BI dashboards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 7+ years of professional experience.
• 4+ years of related industry experience in marketing/sales analytics.
• 2+ years of pharmaceutical market access experience and subject matter expertise with Health Plans, PBMs, Hospital Systems, etc.
• 2+ years of experience with any variation of SQL.
• Strong storytelling skills and ability to distill complex information into concise messages.

Responsibilities

• Lead standard/ad-hoc analytics across portfolio for market access issues.
• Identify market dynamics through claims analysis and market research.
• Build models to portray risks, opportunities, and sensitivities.
• Collaborate with Govt. Affairs/Finance teams and Brand leadership.
• Communicate findings and recommendations to Market Access leadership.
• Develop analytics insights for emerging trends and stakeholder strategies.

Skills

SQL

Python

Power BI

Dataiku

Data analytics

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master’s degree or MBA

Tools

Power BI

Dataiku

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, XandYouTube.

The Market Access and Patient Service Insights (MAPS) organization within APEX plays an instrumental role in shaping market access strategies for all of AbbVie’s domestic brands. As a member of this team, you will lead the planning and execution of standard and ad-hoc analytics to identify/ quantify payer opportunities and threats, make specific recommendations on the development of market access strategies and tactics, develop analytical capabilities, enable organizational learning, and ensure alignment of analytical insights with the broader commercial goals of each brand. The role requires strong data analytics capabilities as well as subject matter expertise within the overall U.S. market access environment. The role provides insights that directly impact patient and physician access to AbbVie brands through its influence on the development of pricing, contracting and other access strategies.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Lead standard/ ad-hoc analytics across portfolio for key market access issues impacting broader AbbVie portfolio across stakeholders through data analytics, customer insights and business knowledge. Identify through claims analysis and market research, market dynamics that shape brand demand and build models to portray risks, opportunities, and sensitivities. Demonstrate good understanding of the U.S. healthcare landscape and key AbbVie therapeutic areas to identify and proactively address opportunities and threats. Build collaborative relationships with internal U.S. Market Access Sales and Marketing stakeholders.

The Senior Manager, Market Access Insights (Policy andStrategy) will be responsible for conducting and guiding the communication of findings, results, and recommendations of modeling/ data analysis/research with Brand and Market Access leadership, cross-functional team such as Govt. Affairs/ Finance teams, within APEX teams and across to the franchises to improve payor knowledge (government, employers, and health plans) and reflection of insights to brand strategies while ensuring the quality and accuracy of all analytical results.

Key areas of functional scope include:

• Demonstrating a strong understanding of syndicated and AbbVie proprietary data, data science and modeling techniques and the ability to synthesize insights into compelling narratives. Is highly proficient at supplier and stakeholder management, leading external analytics to deliver compelling learnings, and formulating analytical strategies appropriate for the issue at hand.
• Demonstrating proficiency in understanding implications of Healthcare Policy and impacts on the health care landscape, payors (both private and governmental), disease states and treatment options. Understanding of govt. payor (Medicare, Medicaid etc.) is very useful.
• Leading the development of analytics and insights for emerging trends and strategies across market access payor channels and stakeholders impacting broader AbbVie portfolio through advanced modelling techniques, communicating analytical narratives that describe the opportunity and risks of stakeholder negotiations, and informing financial projections based on scenario planning and stakeholder economics.
• Expertise using SQL including writing complex queries, data manipulation, and, performance tuning and optimization.
• Responsible for leading the communication of market access insights to leadership requiring a broad range of market access expertise as market players and trends evolve and experience differing market access challenges.
• Experience with Python or other statistical programming languages for large-scale claims data analysis, including importing raw data and conducting exploratory data analysis, is strongly preferred.
• Expertise in automating complex data flows, designing and automating Power BI dashboards for business intelligence, and leveraging Dataiku or similar advanced analytics platforms to develop analytical solutions are a plus.

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 7+ years of professional experience.
• 4+ years of related industry experience in marketing/sales analytics.
• 2+ years of pharmaceutical market access experience and subject matter expertise with Health Plans, PBMs, Hospital Systems, Specialty Pharmacies and Healthcare Policy stakeholders. Strong insurance channel experience and understanding (i.e. Medicare, Commercial etc.) strongly preferred.
• Strong story telling skills; ability to distill complex information synthesized into concise and impactful messages and communications.
• 2+ years of experience with any variation of SQL

Preferred:

• Master’s degree or MBA
• Strong working knowledge of syndicated pharmaceutical data sources.
• 3 - 4 years of pharmaceutical market access experience and subject matter expertise with Health Plans, PBMs, Hospital Systems, Specialty Pharmacies and Healthcare Policy stakeholders. Strong insurance channel experience and understanding (i.e. Medicare, Commercial etc.).
• 3 - 5 years of pharmaceutical marketing insights experience with significant expertise with Physician and Consumer stakeholders.
• 2+ years of hands‑on experience with Python or another statistical programming language.

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 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 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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