Manager, Market Access and Government Affairs, British Columbia & Saskatchewan

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 X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

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 90% of our employees are proud to say they work for AbbVie and 88% are proud of how we contribute to the community.

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AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines 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, eye care, virology, women’s health, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

We are looking for a Manager, Market Access and Government Affairs – British Columbia and Saskatchewan to join our AbbVie Market Access & Government Affairs (MA & GA) team. This position reports directly to the Field Lead, Market Access & Government Affairs and is field-based covering the Specialty and Neurology therapeutic areas for both British Columbia and Saskatchewan.

Key Responsibilities:

• Gain and maintain market access for all of Specialty & Neurology AbbVie products with provincial payers in British Columbia and Saskatchewan.
• Oversee the British Columbia and Saskatchewan government payer and policy-maker interactions related to Specialty and Neurology to develop and execute AbbVie’s health policy strategy and regional market access tactical plans.
• Support the MA & GA team’s development and implementation of the annual regional British Columbia and Saskatchewan MAGA plans. Track the execution and impact of regional government lobbying policy-making activities. 
• Identify health policy barriers and ensure optimal policy conditions and reimbursement for current and future AbbVie Specialty and Neurology products.
• Play an active role with therapeutic area In-field Teams and identify opportunities to work collaboratively with cross-functional colleagues to deliver on Specialty and Neurology brand objectives.
• Work closely with the Patient Engagement team, as needed, to encourage advocacy including any provincial “patient evidence” submissions for Abbvie products.
• Play an active role with provincial regional biopharmaceutical industry association committees (eg., Innovative Medicines Canada, BIOTECanada; Provincial Life Sciences Associations).
• Identify and shape multi-stakeholder projects that are of interest to policy makers / public payers and that position AbbVie as a trusted and expert partner with provincial governments.
• Liaise with Market Access & HEOR team to support British Columbia and Saskatchewan initiatives in providing regional policy makers/drug plan managers with customized relevant clinical and health economic information.
• Work closely with the Lead, GA & Policy to execute British Columbia and Saskatchewan external affairs plans and ensure needs are reflected in immediate and long range planning.
• Liaise with Market Access & HEOR team to support  British Columbia and Saskatchewan in providing policy makers/drug plan managers with customized relevant clinical and health economic information.
• Responsible for developing the provincial Specialty and Neurology GA strategies and tactical plan in collaboration with the Lead GA and the Lead MA.   
• Manage the  British Columbia and Saskatchewan regional MAGA brands and corporate budgets.
• Influence the development of provincial legislation and policy, leveraging customized value propositions in British Columbia and Saskatchewan policymakers, where appropriate.
• Work closely with the Lead MA to support financial cycle and ensure the tactical plan is aligned with the Specialty/ Neurology MA strategy.

Qualifications

Education/Experience Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Commerce or Science.
• At least seven years of experience in a similar role or in a role that would provide the skill requirements in Specialty Care and Neurology.
• Industry provincial/ government affairs/ market access experience (either provincial or federal), with previous involvement and success in securing market access for new products including negotiation experience with provincial Product Listing Agreements (PLAs). Provide field provincial PLA insights, PLA trends and mentoring to other MA in field team members.
• Lead provincial or national GA policy issues and strategy development for new and existing products. Demonstrate cross functional leadership in implementation of an annual provincial MA and GA plans
• Policy analysis experience and ability to support position papers and expeditiously respond in writing to proposed legislation and new health policies.
• In-depth knowledge of Canadian health care systems:  Canadian Drug Agency (CDA); INESSS; Pan Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance (pCPA); British Columbia and Saskatchewan provincial governments drug approval and listing processes and health policies.
• High-level public/stakeholder relationship experience with British Columbia and Saskatchewan public payers.
• Knowledge of the Canadian healthcare landscape, including local /provincial payer and private healthcare environment and funding budget flows.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively leverage knowledge of Pharmaco-economic, outcome research and real-word evidence principles.

Essential Skills & Abilities:

• Relationships building expertise with HTA, provincial payer stakeholders and key influencers including provincial healthcare policymakers, provincial government stakeholders, key national and/or regional medical associations and patient advocacy groups.  Building strong and long lasting relationships with high level government (including Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Premiers Office) public healthcare policy influences.
• Demonstrated ability to drive provincial health care policy issues and influence the development of provincial related healthcare legislation and policy, leveraging customized value propositions with provincial policy makers. Lead/support provincial government budget submissions on key provincial healthcare issues.
• Stakeholder advocacy expertise and providing leadership with the internal cross functional teams to lead national and/or regional provincial policy.
• Build strong relationships with high-level government (including Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Premier’s offices); public health care policymakers, influencers; provincial and private payers.
• Translate brand strategies into actionable and realistic GA & MA engagement plans to ensure a supportive regional policy environment for AbbVie Specialty and Neurology products.
• Collect and share insights with MA team to support the development of value propositions addressing the policymakers and public health care stakeholders’ needs.
• Ability to take key actions and demonstrate behaviors that support AbbVie’s core and leadership and brand teams’ behavior
• Strong communication, presentation, and strategy development skills. Proficiency in writing is necessary.
• Familiar with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).

Travel within Canada is approximately 25 % of the time.

Valid driver’s license and passport are required.

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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