Associate Director, Market Access Contract Analytics and Measurement

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 at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Job Description

The Analytics and Performance Excellence (APEX) function supports AbbVie’s US organization and is comprised of highly respected researchers, analysts, and strategists who are committed to being best-in-class within the biopharmaceutical industry.  We serve as a strategic in-house counsel, ensuring that all decisions leverage the key insights that we develop.  We continue to build new capabilities and skill sets, encouraging our team members to pull up a chair, be themselves, be creative, speak their minds, and do good work.  We are a passionate, diverse, flexible, and inclusive organization with a culture that supports the best ideas, wherever they originate.  We are smart, fun, quirky, and innovative – and we’d love for you to join us.

The Associate Director, Market Access Contract Analytics and Measurement, is a strategic and critical role in the US APEX organization, responsible for leading measurement of Market Access contracting using data driven payer level analysis across AbbVie’s contracted brands for key markets across key payers for all channels of Contracting (Government and Commercial).

The individual in this role will work in a matrixed environment and partner with cross-functional partners including AbbVie’s Account Management team, Payer and Brand Marketers, Payer Contracting team, Finance, & Business Technology teams to collaboratively achieve access objectives for the Brand and ensure access for AbbVie’s medication to patients in need.

The core role involves assessing performance of payer contracts, aligning national and account level targets, developing analytic assets to streamline contract modeling, and presenting findings of analysis to drive optimized bid decisions.

This position is a leadership position and involves developing and automating approaches to analyze and measure contract performance.

• Measure and analyze the performance of historical contracts relative to historical trends and expectations.
• Develop targets for account level contracts that align with national goals.
• Work with APEX Enterprise team and BTS to deploy data assets to streamline and standardize contract model development, and contract analytics and measurement
• Develop new and continually refine existing data assets and tools to automate decision support and measurement for the ever-changing Market Access contracting landscape.
• Support all channels of payer contracting including Commercial, Medicare Part D, Medicaid and other Government channels 

Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Data Science,  Actuarial Sciences, Finance, Economics, or related field required
• 10+ years in work experience in business consulting, data analysis type of roles, 4+ years of Market Access Payer Analytics and Contracting experience preferred.
• Strong business and analytics acumen – working knowledge of Managed care contract modeling with an emphasis on data and performance measurement preferred.  
• Requires the ability to work in a matrixed environment while demonstrating and aligning to AbbVie’s ways of working.
• Working knowledge of PowerBI and Tableau based visualization tools to extract/ analyze data and communicate a story through insights.
• Strong knowledge of SQL to analyze and extract data from data sources.
• Working knowledge of analytic approaches, data automation, and AI deployment concepts
• Experience managing and analyzing patient claims data (e.g. IQVIA LAAD, Symphony Health data) for Pharmacy channel products.
• Working knowledge of python, R, or other languages with a focus on analytics and automation.
• Knowledge of channel dynamics/ evolving policy changes and ability to translate this understanding into actionable strategies using advanced analytics methods.
• Robust understanding of pharmacy channel stakeholder economics, including Payers, Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs),   
• Working knowledge of Medical benefit products e