Sr. Associate General Counsel, Legal Strategy

Role Summary

As a Senior Associate General Counsel, Legal Strategy, you will play a pivotal role in advancing company priorities by identifying, developing and executing key legal strategies with a focus on emerging issues within the U.S. drug pricing, reimbursement, and access landscape. Leveraging your understanding of the payer, PBM and drug access environment as well as an innovative mindset, you will collaborate with internal subject matter experts and external partners to drive creative solutions to complex legal challenges.

Responsibilities

• Proactively lead the development of strategies and initiatives to successfully navigate pharmaceutical supply chain and price reform in the US today and in the future.
• Partner with AbbVie’s Business Evolution Strategic Development team to develop and evaluate new U.S. pricing, reimbursement and access strategies designed to support AbbVie’s objectives and goals in complex areas requiring strong cross-functional partnership and external environment shaping.
• Determine prioritization, timeline and resourcing needs for strategic initiatives and gain internal alignment.
• Drive cross-functional team execution and progress.
• Develop lines of communication with internal subject matter experts and key business counterparts to inform strategic initiatives and help build cohesive AbbVie strategies.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 12+ years of relevant experience practicing as a member of a law firm or in-house with a focus on the pharmaceutical industry.
• Significant industry experience, preferably within a pharmaceutical company, pharmacy benefit manager or health insurer, with a deep understanding of US pricing models, reimbursement processes, formulary management, and payer negotiations in the healthcare sector.
• Demonstrates organizational, analytical, communication, leadership, and influence skills. Comfortable presenting complicated information accurately and concisely to senior leaders.
• Demonstrated success in solving complex and dynamic problems, and have an interest in helping to proactively shape the external environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing high-visibility, high-impact projects with a strategic and collaborative approach.
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment while handling multiple priorities.
• Adept at coordinating and facilitating cross-functional efforts and gaining alignment from internal and external stakeholders with a demonstrated ability to work effectively in matrixed environments.

Education

• Law degree from an ABA accredited law school and in good standing with the state bar of the jurisdiction in which your office will be located (or ability to gain licensure in the state in which your office will be located).