Director Health Economics & Reimbursement

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life.

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of
• Free medical coverage for employees
  * via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists

We are recruiting a Global Head of Health Economics & Reimbursement (HE&R) to serve as the functional leader for our Heart Failure business. This leader will be a member of both the functional and business unit executive leadership teams and is accountable for developing and executing global health economics, reimbursement and market access strategies across the full product lifecycle. The Global Head of HE&R will lead a global strategy through a network of direct, indirect, regional and cross-functional resources.

The role will partner extensively with business, clinical, medical affairs, regulatory, commercial, finance and regional leadership teams to enable patient access, optimize business performance and support sustainable portfolio growth globally. This role serves as the senior access authority for evidence strategy, value-based care alignment, health-system economics, policy-informed forecasting and reimbursement readiness across the Heart Failure portfolio.

Location:

Pleasanton or Santa Clara, California

• Serve as a member of the Heart Failure business unit and functional executive leadership teams, shaping product, franchise and business strategy globally, including clinical and real-world evidence generation, regulatory planning, commercialization and market development.
• Provide strategic direction and represent the payer, provider and health-system economic customer perspective in portfolio development, reimbursement strategy and commercialization decisions.
• Shape Heart Failure business strategy by integrating patient access, hospitalization economics, evidence strategy, value-based care incentives, payer policy and commercial planning.
• Partner with business and finance leaders to incorporate reimbursement, policy, evidence and adoption considerations into strategic planning and portfolio investment decisions.
• Advise senior leadership on market entry, adoption barriers, evidence-generation priorities and reimbursement assumptions within business plans and forecasts.
• Influence cross-functional strategies where health-system incentives, local evidence requirements, diagnostic pathways and infrastructure readiness determine access feasibility.

• Lead integrated global access, reimbursement, health economic and policy strategies across the full product lifecycle, from innovation planning and clinical development through commercialization,…