Job Description

Joining AbbVie means you will be part of a team of outstanding professionals dedicated to making a remarkable impact on patients' lives. At AbbVie, we conduct ground-breaking science on a global scale every day. AbbVie Canada is one of the Best Workplaces in Canada whereby 92% of our employees are proud to say they work for AbbVie. When choosing your career path, choose to be remarkable. AbbVie?s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines 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, eye care, virology, women?s health, and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. The Associate Manager, MA and HEOR, will assist the immunology market access team members with:

• Market Access strategy development
• Market Access submission planning and execution for HTA / private payers
• Cross-functional collaboration to execute market access and advocacy strategies
• Participate/assist in 2024 brand planning process and ensure MA input

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in developing market access, health economics & outcomes research strategies to gain / maintain / optimize reimbursement for new and existing products with various public and private payers;
• Assist in developing submissions dossiers for CADTH, INESSS and private payers, including the development of budgetary impact analyses and the development/adaptation of economic analyses. This requires:
• Ensuring effective communication of health economics & outcomes studies progress and results to relevant audiences (e.g. investigators, brand team, etc.);
• Liaising with consultants, contract research organizations, economic experts, as needed on various health economics & outcomes research projects.
• Assist in providing analytical & strategic support for the development of the pricing strategy of new products in compliance with the Patented Medicines Price Review Board (PMPRB) regulations and in alignment with the Global pricing strategy & payer considerations;
• Playing an active role on Brand Team to identify opportunities to work collaboratively with cross-functional colleagues to deliver on brand objectives.
• This position reports to the Lead, Market Access / Health Economics and Outcomes Research ? Immunology.

Education/Experience Required:

• Bachelor Degree in Science; Bachelor Degree in Pharmacy or Pharm.D;
• Graduate Degree in pharmacoeconomics, epidemiology or drug development, an asset.
• The ideal candidate should have experience in market access, pharmacoeconomic and outcomes research in immunology.

Essential Skills & Abilities:

• Clinical acumen or ability to acquire it quickly, across different therapeutic areas.
• Communication effectiveness, medical writing (technical) skills and presentation skills.
• Strategic thinking, analytical and data interpretation skills to support the development of compelling value propositions addressing public and private payer needs.
• Ability to work cross-functionally and be a strong team player. Work with field-based Market Access & Government Affairs team, Brand Teams and global Market Access & HEOR organization to assist in the development of strategies and tools to fully leverage value stories with customers.
• Ability to prioritize & project management skills. Ability to manage multiple projects across different therapeutic areas and work well under stress (timelines).
• High quality standards & rigor; detail oriented.
• Understanding of public and private drug reimbursement landscape and health technology assessment process and submission requirements in Canada.
• Understanding of pharmacoeconomic principles / guidelines and methodological developments.
• Proficient with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) as well as Outlook.
• Incumbent is also required to work with databases, such as Payer specific databases (e.g. PharmaStat, RxDynamics, etc.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women, Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities to apply. Covid vaccination new hires amendments: Full vaccination against COVID-19 is a condition of employment for this position, with possible accommodation for validated exemptions, within the limits of applicable legislation. AbbVie employees are also required to comply with any COVID-19 related external requirements, including any testing requirements, applicable to their work activities outside AbbVie premises (for example, travelling and visiting stakeholders and customers).
Vous joindre ? AbbVie signifie que vous ferez partie d?une ?quipe de professionnels exceptionnels qui se sont engag?s ? avoir un impact remarquable sur la vie des patients. Chez AbbVie, nous effectuons des recherches scientifiques r?volutionnaires ? l??chelle mondiale au quotidien. AbbVie Canada est l?un des meilleurs lieux de travail au Canada. En fait, 90% de nos employ?s sont fiers de dire qu?ils travaillent chez Abbvie et 88% sont fiers de la contribution que nous apportons ? la communaut?. AbbVie a pour mission de d?couvrir et d?offrir des m?dicaments novateurs pour r?pondre ? des besoins importants en mati?re de sant? aujourd?hui et relever les d?fis m?dicaux de demain. AbbVie met tout en ?uvre afin d?avoir un impact remarquable sur la vie des gens dans divers secteurs th?rapeutiques cl?s, dont l?immunologie, l?oncologie, les neurosciences, les soins oculaires, la virologie, la sant? des femmes et la gastroent?rologie, de m?me que dans le domaine de l?esth?tique par le truchement des produits et services d?Allergan Esth?tique. Lorsque vous d?terminez votre cheminement de carri?re, choisissez d??tre remarquable. L'Associ? a l'acc?s au march? et HEOR aidera les membres de l'?quipe d'acc?s au march? de l'immunologie avec :

• D?veloppement de la strat?gie d'acc?s au march?
• Planification et ex?cution des soumissions d'acc?s au march? pour HTA / payeurs priv?s
• Collaboration interfonctionnelle pour ex?cuter des strat?gies d'acc?s au march? et de plaidoyer
• Participer / aider au processus de planification de la marque 2024 et assurer la contribution de MA

Principales responsabilit?s:

• Aider ? d?velopper des strat?gies d'acc?s au march?, d'?conomie de la sant? et de recherche sur les r?sultats pour obtenir / maintenir / optimiser le remboursement des produits nouveaux et existants aupr?s de divers payeurs publics et priv?s ;
• Aider ? l'?laboration des dossiers de soumission pour l'ACMTS, l'INESSS et les payeurs priv?s, incluant l'?laboration d'analyses d'impact budg?taire et l'?laboration/adaptation d'analyses ?conomiques. Cela n?cessite:
• Assurer une communication efficace des progr?s et des r?sultats des ?tudes sur l'?conomie de la sant? et les r?sultats aux publics concern?s (par exemple, les enqu?teurs, l'?quipe de marque, etc.);
• Assurer la liaison avec des consultants, des organismes de recherche sous contrat, des experts ?conomiques, au besoin sur divers projets de recherche sur l'?conomie de la sant? et les r?sultats.
• Aider ? fournir un soutien analytique et strat?gique pour le d?veloppement de la strat?gie de tarification des nouveaux produits conform?ment aux r?glements du Conseil d'examen du prix des m?dicaments brevet?s (CEPMB) et en alignement avec la strat?gie mondiale de tarification et les consid?rations du payeur ;
• Jouer un r?le actif au sein de l'?quipe de marque pour identifier les opportunit?s de travailler en collaboration avec des coll?gues interfonctionnels pour atteindre les objectifs de la marque.

Pre-Requis:

• Baccalaur?at en sciences ; Baccalaur?at en pharmacie ou Pharm.D
• Dipl?me d'?tudes sup?rieures en pharmaco?conomie, ?pid?miologie ou d?veloppement de m?dicaments, un atout.
• Le candidat id?al doit avoir de l'exp?rience en recherche sur l'acc?s au march?, la pharmaco?conomie et les r?sultats en immunologie.

AbbVie offre des chances ?gales d?emploi ? tous et ? toutes, et encourage les femmes, les Autochtones, les personnes handicap?es et les membres des minorit?s visibles ? poser leur candidature. Vaccination contre la COVID-19 obligatoire pour les nouveaux employ?s : ?tre pleinement vaccin? contre la COVID-19 est une condition d?embauche pour ce poste. Des arrangements pour des exemptions valid?es peuvent ?tre pris, tout en respectant les limites de la l?gislation applicable. Les employ?s d?AbbVie doivent ?galement se conformer aux exigences externes se rapportant ? la COVID-19, y compris aux obligations de passage de tests applicables ? leurs activit?s professionnelles ? l?ext?rieur des locaux d?AbbVie (p. ex., voyager et visiter des parties prenantes et des clients).

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer including disability/vets. It is AbbVie?s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a disabled veteran, recently separated veteran, Armed Forces service medal veteran or active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran or a person?s relationship or association with a protected veteran, including spouses and other family members, or any other protected group status. We will take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified minorities, women, individuals with a disability, disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, Armed Forces service medal veterans or active-duty wartime or campaign badge veterans. The Affirmative Action Plan is available for viewing in the Human Resources office during regular business hours.