Senior Payer Strategy Enablement Lead

AbbVie; Mettawa (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie in Mettawa, IL, is seeking an Associate Director to lead Payer Strategy Enablement within US Market Access. The role focuses on strategic planning, governance, and cross-functional coordination to drive priority execution across therapeutic areas and customer segments.

You will partner with Senior Payer Strategy leaders to implement common processes, reporting tools, and scalable workflows that improve visibility and alignment, enabling focus on market dynamics and value strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required; MBA or Master’s Degree preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Market Access, Payer Strategy, Commercial Operations, Strategic Planning, Marketing, Sales Leadership, or related commercial function.
• Track record leading cross-functional initiatives from planning through execution.
• Experience working effectively across matrixed organizations and influencing without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Support execution of annual strategic planning, business reviews, and priority-setting activities across Payer Strategy teams.
• Coordinate planning cycles, key milestones, deliverables, and leadership priorities across multiple therapeutic areas.
• Maintain visibility to strategic initiatives, customer priorities, and critical business activities across Market Access.
• Partner with leadership to track progress against strategic priorities and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Lead development and management of common reporting tools, dashboards, trackers, and planning resources across the Payer Strategy organization.
• Establish scalable processes and ways of working that can be leveraged consistently across therapeutic areas.
• Drive consistency in planning, reporting, governance, and execution across teams.
• Support implementation and pull-through of Future Fit, capability-building, and process improvement initiatives.
• Partner with Market Access training and learning organizations to define service models, roles, responsibilities, and engagement approaches that maximize organizational effectiveness and capability development.
• Coordinate forward-looking visibility to key contracting, pricing, customer, and access-related milestones.
• Support cross-functional alignment across Payer Strategy, Finance, Pricing, Trade, APEX, Account Teams, and other partner functions.
• Help identify risks, dependencies, and coordination opportunities requiring leadership attention.
• Support effective governance and communication for complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Coordinate leadership meetings, touchpoints, business reviews, and organizational communications.
• Support development and management of training calendars, planning resources, and knowledge-sharing tools.
• Drive consistency of information, best practices, and operating approaches across Market Access teams.
• Support employee engagement, culture, and organizational effectiveness initiatives.
• Partner with training teams to translate payer strategy, customer insights, market access trends, and business priorities into scalable field education and capability-building initiatives.
• Support development, review, and deployment of payer strategy training materials, including coordination of MRL review processes and cross-functional stakeholder input to ensure timely execution.

Skills

Strategic planning

Cross-functional leadership

Analytical mindset

Communication skills

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

MBA or Master’s Degree

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

AbbVie in Mettawa, IL, is seeking an Associate Director to lead Payer Strategy Enablement within US Market Access. The role focuses on strategic planning, governance, and cross-functional coordination to drive priority execution across therapeutic areas and customer segments.

You will partner with Senior Payer Strategy leaders to implement common processes, reporting tools, and scalable workflows that improve visibility and alignment, enabling focus on market dynamics and value strategy.