Strategic Pricing Manager, Market Access

Montreal, QC

• Function: Commercial
• Job Type: Full-time

Job ID: R00133785
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.
Job Description
Joining AbbVie means, you will be part of a team of outstanding professionals dedicated to making a remarkable impact on patients’ lives. At AbbVie, we conduct ground-breaking science on a global scale every day. AbbVie Canada is one of the Best Workplaces in Canada, whereby 97% of our employees are proud to say they work for AbbVie and 96% are proud of how we contribute to the community.
When choosing your career path, choose to be remarkable.
AbbVie is a global, research-driven biopharmaceutical company committed to developing innovative advanced therapies for some of the world’s most complex and critical conditions. The company’s mission is to use its expertise, dedicated people and unique approach to innovation to markedly improve treatments across four primary therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, virology and neuroscience.
AbbVie Canada is looking to connect with Pricing Manager talents to join our Market Access team. The incumbent will report to the Head of Strategic Pricing and Contracting.

Education requirements:

• University degree in Health Sciences, Business, or Finance; graduate studies in one or more of these fields is an asse

Experience:

• The ideal candidate should have between 3 to 5 years of experience in a similar position, and/or expertise in market access with pertinent experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Working knowledge of PMPRB Regulations and Guidelines
• Understands Pricing & Reimbursement/ Health Technology Assessment requirements and how they intersect to impact pricing assumptions.
• Understands the role of industry associations, pricing policies and PMRPB reform.
• Additional commercial/ business background an asse

Skills required:

• Strong strategic & analytical thinking: ability to understand, synthetize and communicate complex concepts and outcomes and build associated executive reports & presentations
• Proven ability to work within a cross-functional team and within a large organization
• Crafts high quality, concise written and oral communications that emphasizes key points and ideas to connect with stakeholders
• Can work independently and autonomously, detailed oriented, resilient, well organized, strong multi-tasking and project management skills
• Ability to adapt to evolving customer needs/demands within a changing environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills and capacity to manage conflict constructively.
• Strong communicator with presentations skills. Bilingual candidates preferre

Knowledge required:

• Experience in analytics/business insights
• Proficiency with SAP, IQVIA analytic tools, MS Office Suite and applications
• Ability to develop or adapt Excel-based models using various data inputs (both structured and unstructured)

AbbVie strives to provide a French working environment for its employees in Quebec. Although as part of its francization program has taken all reasonable steps to avoid imposing the following requirement, advanced amount of knowledge of English / Fluency in English is an essential requirement for the position of Pricing Manager including, but not limited to, for the following reasons:

• English speaking employees outside the province of Quebec.
• English speaking clients outside the province of Quebec.
• Anglophone region outside the province of Quebec

• Build price strategies to achieve optimal revenues throughout the pipeline, launch, and marketed product portfolios
• Co-develop pricing models, negotiation plans, and contracting strategies in a matrix environment within AbbVie, leading to strategic pricing recommendations that are aligned with Global and local price guidance and approval process.
• Manage internal price approval and Global governance processes across AbbVie product portfolio. Works closely with Global Pricing Team to ensure alignment with Global price guidance and business case development.
• Lead AbbVie PMPRB reporting obligations for reportable products and manage any investigations as required
• Developing and leveraging robust, data-driven business cases for pricing recommendation and/or approval. This includes vigilance on movements of competitor pricing and pricing regulations to ensure AbbVie is competitively positioned while ensuring internally and externally compliant pricing practices.
• Manage and lead the review of contracts and PLAs, while ensuring compliance to AbbVie policies and legal guidelines.
• Tracking federal, provincial and payers pricing policies impacting the pharmaceutical industry and ensuring appropriate internal awareness with relevant internal stakeholders.
• Supporting the operationalization of internal pricing guidance, policies and procedures specific to AbbVie. This includes AbbVie Global and Area internal reporting obligations processes.
• Establishing and nurturing positive working relationships with our internal functions and AbbVie Global and Area offices.
  Qualifications

Education requirements:

• University degree in Health Sciences, Business, or Finance; graduate studies in one or more of these fields is an asset

Experience:

• The ideal candidate should have between 3 to 5 years of experience in a similar position, and/or expertise in market access with pertinent experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Working knowledge of PMPRB Regulations and Guidelines
• Understands Pricing & Reimbursement/ Health Technology Assessment requirements and how they intersect to impact pricing assumptions.
• Understands the role of industry associations, pricing policies and PMRPB reform.
• Additional commercial/ business background an asset

Skills required:

• Strong strategic & analytical thinking: ability to understand, synthetize and communicate complex concepts and outcomes and build associated executive reports & presentations
• Proven ability to work within a cross-functional team and within a large organization
• Crafts high quality, concise written and oral communications that emphasizes key points and ideas to connect with stakeholders
• Can work independently and autonomously, detailed oriented, resilient, well organized, strong multi-tasking and project management skills
• Ability to adapt to evolving customer needs/demands within a changing environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills and capacity to manage conflict constructively.
• Strong communicator with presentations skills. Bilingual candidates preferred

Knowledge required:

• Experience in analytics/business insights
• Proficiency with SAP, IQVIA analytic tools, MS Office Suite and applications
• Ability to develop or adapt Excel-based models using various data inputs (both structured and unstructured).

AbbVie strives to provide a French working environment for its employees in Quebec. Although as part of its francization program has taken all reasonable steps to avoid imposing the following requirement, advanced amount of knowledge of English / Fluency in English is an essential requirement for the position of Pricing Manager including, but not limited to, for the following reasons:

• English speaking employees outside the province of Quebec.
• English speaking clients outside the province of Quebec.
• Anglophone region outside the province of Quebec.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women, Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities to apply.
Additional Information
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