Senior Manager, Analytics - Emerging Channel

AbbVie•Mettawa, IL

About The Position

AbbVie’s Analytics and Performance Excellence (APEX) function supports AbbVie’s US organization and is comprised of highly respected researchers, analysts, data scientists 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 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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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.

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, Analytics - Emerging Channel 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.
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.