Director, Neuroscience, Copay COE

Company Description

Abb Vie'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 Abb Vie, please visit  Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, You Tube, Linked In and Tik Tok.

The Director, Neuroscience, within the Copay Center of Excellence (COE), plays a leadership role in the development and maintenance of our patient access & affordability strategies across the Abb Vie Neuroscience business. This person will be responsible for copay program implementation & operations, strategic innovation, analytics & data operations, forecasting and financial program management. They will be responsible for working cross-functionally within the Copay COE, and across the Abb Vie organization, partnering with Market Access, Finance, Business Technology Solutions (BTS), Patient Services, Analytics and Performance Excellence (APEX), Hub Operations and Brand Teams.

They will lead a team of individuals to successfully deliver executive level recommendations to the Neuroscience leadership team.

• Lead the continued evolution of access and affordability strategies for Abb Vie's Neuroscience business, based upon changes within the market landscape that impact the patients we support.
• Drive an exceptional patient experience through the development of innovative and impactful initiatives that align to the Patient Services strategic imperatives.
• Manage copay program P&L through strong partnership with Finance to lead and execute Abb Vie financial planning cycles across the LBE/LRP/Annual Plan.
• Work cross-functionally to provide leadership and direction for a cohesive Neuroscience Gross-To-Net (GTN) strategy.
• Establish and maintain appropriate relationships with commercial business partners in market access, sales, managed healthcare, trade, and marketing teams.
• Collaborate within the patient support organization to successfully pull through access and affordability programs.
• Partner with APEX on analytics initiatives, to ensure consistent program performance measurement and insights across the enterprise portfolio.
• Ensure a high level of cross-functional coordination and strategic/tactical planning through ongoing communications as well as contributing to a positive team culture.
• Partner with legal and compliance teams to ensure programs are compliant and evolve as needed based on new laws / regulations.
• Manage vendor relationships to successfully execute copay program operations, and auxiliary tactics to ensure program success.
• Build a high performing team, creating business plans and setting priorities to achieve business objectives and goals. Influence across multiple external and internal stakeholders. Lead and develop direct, indirect and cross-business team. Infuse Abb Vie Ways of Working and Talent Philosophy in day-to-day leadership and management of the business.

• Requires minimum of a Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree a plus.
• A minimum of 5-7 years in the pharmaceutical industry with expertise in patient support programs, market access, finance, sales, marketing, or related commercial function in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry.
• Candidates should have working knowledge of the compliance and regulatory environment for manufacturers in the pharmaceutical space.

• Strong writing and presentation skills.
• Ability to effectively plan, prioritize, execute, follow up and anticipate problems.
• Ability to lead across multiple functions (sales, managed healthcare, trade, marketing).
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects in fast-paced, deadline driven, entrepreneurial environment.
• Ability to influence across functions to gain consensus on solutions.
• Excellent leadership, management and organizational skills, along with problem solving, conflict resolution and team building.
• Works on issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth knowledge of functional area objectives and their impact on, and interaction with, other functions within the organization.

• Senior Leadership
• Abb Vie Patient Services Organization
• Market Access / Trade
• Finance
• BTS
• APEX
• Hub Operations
• Brand Teams / Marketing
• Sales
• Legal/OEC

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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…