Senior Manager, HEOR

at AbbVie in Mettawa, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Company Description

AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions 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, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

The Senior Manager, HEOR works independently while under the supervision of the Director to develop and execute outcomes research to demonstrate the value of AbbVie’s products both globally and for the U.S. market. They develop outcomes research plans outlining the strategic approach for generating required evidence and research outputs, which may span multiple product / indications. This research includes: creation of economic models (budget impact and cost effectiveness), conduct of claims analyses and observational research studies / analyses, and the development and validation of Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO) measures, and analyses of PRO data. In addition, they lead completion of systematic literature reviews, meta-analyses, and U.S. / Global evidence dossiers. This is accomplished through cross-functional collaboration with internal groups including Clinical Development, Medical Affairs; Commercial; Market Access; Regulatory Affairs; Global Epidemiology; and Operations. They present health outcomes research findings internally to AbbVie and externally via the peer-reviewed process. In addition, the Senior Manager builds research relationships with key clinical and outcomes thought leaders, resulting in research collaboration.

The employee must conduct their work activities in compliance with all AbbVie internal requirements and with all applicable regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities:

+ Manage health economic and outcomes research initiatives to support and strengthen strategic decision making for early clinical development programs

+ Provide innovative and efficient HEOR strategic input for clinical trial design, ensuring ability to meet regulatory requirements, address patient priorities, and optimize access opportunities

+ Apply technical training and experience to plan, execute, and interpret research and data collection activities.

+ Engage with internal and external experts and data resources to execute strategies and research activities led by HEOR.

+ Implement impactful research dissemination activities to inform internal decision-making and appropriately contribute to external scientific knowledge and literature.

+ Ensure alignment of research activities with scientific and tactical strategic planning, and communicates any changes from plan in timely manner.

+ Actively participate in cross-functional teams as subject matter expert for tactical discussions and proactively escalates foreseeable challenges/issues back to manager in a timely manner.

+ Develop and maintain effective cross-functional working partnerships to assure effective teamwork with assigned teams.

+ Monitor scientific, regulatory, reimbursement and access trends, events and to inform research activities and help ensure future organizational readiness

Qualifications

+ MS in Economics or related discipline; Preferred: PhD in Economics, Econometrics, Health Services Research or related field. Clinical degree (PharmD, MD) considered a plus.

+ Minimum of 2-3 years of relevant experience in the pharmaceutical industry or related industry.

+ Experience and/or substantial training in the scientific fundamentals of one or more of the core HEOR specialties (epidemiology, biostatistics, patient reported outcomes, health services research, economics, clinical practice or behavioral science).

+ Capable of performing health economic and outcomes research projects from inception through publication and application with minimal oversight.

+ Fundamental 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.

+ High goal-orientation with track record of strategic thinking, operational excellence and good communication skills.

+ Strong capabilities to perform the dual roles of working within a cross functional environment and leading independent scientific research.

*Strong preference for the position to sit in our Lake County, IL office, but open to remote in the U.S. for the right candidate.

Additional Information

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+ The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.?

+ We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.?

+ This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ?

+ This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs?

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company’s sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ?

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AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. 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 protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.