Director, Payer Strategy - Immunology - Lake County, IL

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 – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

The Director, US Market Access, Payer Strategy SKYRIZI will lead development, evolution, and deployment of the pan-therapeutic SKYRIZI value proposition and drive life-cycle commercialization decision-making to maximize and protect SKYRIZI value across the long-range plan. The Director will integrate insights across gastroenterology, dermatology, and rheumatology into the US Market Access Payer Strategy team, work collaboratively with International Market Access (IMAP) colleagues, and act as a critical member on the Asset Strategy Team and other deliverable teams. The ideal candidate should have a track record of influencing without authority, experience in US and/or Global payer strategy development, an understanding of the AbbVie Financial Planning processes, and executive presence. 

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead development of the SKYRIZI customer narrative platform leveraging clinical and economic data as well as key stakeholder insights.  Work with key members of the Immunology Payer Strategy team and cross-functional partners, including Heads of Brand Marketing, Medical Payer Strategy, HEOR, Trade, and APS, to develop and integrate compelling narrative that aligns to Immunology Strategy and has high-impact with external customers
  • Drive cost containment mitigation initiatives across different payer stakeholders, including state-initiated boards, CMS IRA maximum fair price “negotiations”, and ongoing Payer contracting discussions
• Determine appropriate action, execution, tracking, monitoring, and competitive preparedness for future evolution of SKYRIZI value proposition
• Lead SKYRIZI Medicaid Contracting and strategy re-evaluation in context of evolving immun