Head of US Patient Access

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

For years, Abbott’s medical device businesses have offered technologies that are faster, more effective, and less invasive. Whether it’s glucose monitoring system, innovative therapies for treating heart disease, or products that help people with chronic pain or movement disorders, our medical device technologies are designed to help people live their lives better and healthier. Every day, our technologies help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine finger sticks.

We are recruiting for a Head of US Patient Access to serve as the functional lead for patient access performance in the United States.  The Head of US Patient Access will be responsible for informing and validating US Market Access Strategies for priority programs across Abbotts Cardiovascular and Neuromodulation portfolios.  This leader will be responsible for cultivating and maintaining key stakeholder relationships within government, industry associations and professional societies, to inform portfolio strategies and support US access execution.  They will also have accountability for bridging the gap between launch and market access optimization with a robust patient prior authorization support strategy executed via a fully staffed patient therapy access team.

This position will lead a strong patient therapy access team, and leverage central resources, to develop, expand and integrate prior authorization support into Abbott’s robust pipeline of innovations.  This role is responsible for working with peers across our Health Economics and Reimbursement (HE&R) capabilities to deliver business critical insights about the impact of payer policies on patient access and opportunities to improve patient access through cross-functional strategies including education and evidence generation activities. 

The PTA lead will serve as the single point of contact for prior authorization policy insights and implications to Abbott Medical Device portfolio strategy and may be required to design and execute related education and advocacy efforts.

This leadership role will report directly to the Divisional Vice President of Health Economics and Reimbursement and will carry additional responsibilities as a member of the HE&R Leadership Team.  Such responsibilities may include spearheading cross-functional strategic planning and growth initiatives, improving organizational access literacy, or driving functional customer centricity programs.

This is an on-site role.  Talent will be required to co-locate with peers at an Abbott office. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO –

• Serve as the subject matter expert for payment pathways, policies and regulatory requirements that govern processes such as prior authorization in the United States

• Work with US business leaders, and peers across our Market Access capabilities, to deliver business critical insights, externally informed US patient access opportunities, and cross-functional strategies to unlock/improve patient access to life changing technologies   

• Build account level relationships, in collaboration with business units partners, to help Abbott identify and navigate patient access challenges

• Co-create integrated US Market Access strategies alongside global therapy area leaders

• Lead a strong patient therapy access team, by setting the direction of the capability and mentoring the team to be business integrated and customer engaged

• Benchmark capabilities, and stay abreast of prior authorization policy trends, to inform internal capability development and long-term product strategy

• Merge PTA data with business, and US market, insights to enhance integrated product access strategies

• Elevate organizational awareness of the role of PTA in product access strategies by building strong working relationships with Business Unit Presidents and Cross-Functional Divisional VPs to improve access literacy across Abbott Med Device

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