Director, HEOR Strategy, US Access Evidence Strategy and Execution

Role Summary

Director, HEOR Strategy, US Access Evidence Strategy and Execution leads the development and execution of the Inflation Reduction Act value and evidence strategy and the capabilities to support AbbVie’s drug price negotiation program with CMS for the Neuroscience portfolio. The role reports to the HEOR Strategy TA Lead. Location preferences include Mettawa, IL, or Irvine, CA.

Responsibilities

• In coordination with IRA Navigation and Possibilities (NAP) Leads, Government Affairs, other Neuroscience leads, HEOR Neuroscience leadership, evaluate neuroscience evidence strategies.
• Educate and embed IRA operational readiness into Neuroscience HEOR team to accelerate and optimize IRA engagement outcomes.
• Provide thought leadership to neuroscience R&D, MHI, and PCS leadership and coordination with Government Affairs to ensure a deep and discreet organizational understanding of IRA impacts to neuroscience access evidence strategy.
• Oversees the design and conduct of projects and effectively communicates the findings and strategic impact of findings to internal and external audiences.
• Ensures project plan integrates and aligns with neuroscience access strategic plans from matrix teams as well as commercial interests. Provides updates on execution of plans, owns, then shares project execution decisions.
• Accountable for end-to-end delivery of HEOR book of work under their remit, from strategy development to content pull through.
• Accountable to ensuring strong partnership with all relevant HEOR COE functions to ensure a comprehensive HEOR voice is represented in cross-functional meetings.
• Executive presence and ability to engage with senior leaders in a cross functional setting.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in health economics or related discipline.
• Minimum of seven years working experience with Master’s, five year with PhD (can include fellowship experience). Professional training and experience in the US private and/or public payer setting is strongly preferred.
• Proven leadership skills in a cross-functional global team environment. Ability to interact externally and internally to support global business strategy.
• The Director must perform at times in previously uncharted territory with few, if any, established guidelines or procedures. At other times, exceedingly complex governmental rules and regulations must be followed. For problems surrounded by complex rules and regulations, the Director must be able to direct compliance knowledgeably and expeditiously.
• Must be able to develop creative and effective solutions to inter- and intra-project priority conflicts, resource constraints and other problems which may impact project or group goals and deliverables across multiple programs.
• High goal-orientation with the ability to see solutions rather than problems as projects encounter the inevitable ups and downs associated with new drug development or on-market product support.
• Extensive knowledge of the global regulatory, HTA and PR&A landscape, as well as understanding of other development-related functions as they relate to all phases of drug development.
• Skills to lead cross-functional teams and manage scientific personnel in clinical research; ability to interact with senior management globally and act as HEOR project/group champion and spokesperson; self-starter with a strong desire to see projects achieve global commercial success.