Senior Market Access Manager

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Job Description:

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott 

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to: 

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of. 
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year. 
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.  

The Opportunity

This position is an onsite opportunity in the Abbott Diabetes Care (ADC) Division in Alameda, CA. We are helping people with diabetes lead healthier, happier lives. As a global leader in diabetes care, Abbott is constantly working to deliver the highest quality products and unwavering support to our customers. Consistent and accurate glucose monitoring is the foundation of any diabetes management plan, so we are committed to continuous improvement in the way patients and professionals measure, track and analyze glucose levels.

As a Senior Market Access Manager, you will support efforts to remove or lower barriers to patient access to Division products by developing and implementing strategies directed at healthcare providers, thought leaders, payers, health plans, public agencies and patient advocacy groups; ensure Market Access for current and pipeline Division products. Develop and implement market access and reimbursement tactical plans for new and existing drug-test combinations. Monitor relevant health policy developments (i.e., evidence-based medicine, HTA's) and provide meaningful guidance on opportunities and risks for product adoption and suggest actions to mitigate the risk. Work with public and private payers Medical and Actuarial Directors to negotiate coverage and payment.  This is an onsite opportunity in Alameda, CA.

What You’Ll Do

• Coordinate and develop market access projects with internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide guidance on reimbursement research as well as patient advocacy efforts.
• Manage deliverables such as reimbursement dossiers, reimbursement landscape analyses, consultant driven research projects.
• Ensure that deliverables are accomplished on time and within budget.
• Work with Global Market Access and Reimbursement, Global Marketing, R&D, Medical, Clinical, HEOR and selected consultants and KOL's to create effective channels of communication and gain support in the formation of the value proposition and the implementation of the strategy.
• Assist in guiding the outcome of Health Technology Assessments, where they are used to determine coverage, coding and payment.
• Focus placed upon removing or decreasing barriers to patient access will be a critical component of product adoption.
• Help drive a market access strategy for Division products in key markets.
• Accountabilities will include ensuring that public and private payers agree to provide coverage and payment at a rational level for current and pipeline products.
• Part of the Global Market Access and Reimbursement team and will report to the Market Access person leading overall activities for the assigned geographical area.

Experience You’Ll Bring

Required

• Bachelors Degree, desirable would be higher education in health studies, business or economics due to anticipated involvement in HEOR evidence creation to support reimbursement applications and an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Masters Degree Preferred
• Minimum 8 years related work experience. 
• 3 years in Market Access and Reimbursement for pharmaceutical products, medical devices or diagnostics, gained, ideally in more than one National healthcare delivery system.
• Good working knowledge of market access and reimbursement pathways , health technology assessment, Health Economic and Outcomes Research (HEOR) as well as peer review publication strategies are highly desirable.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English is a must and one or more additional languages would be a plus.

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Divisional Information

Medical Devices

General Medical Devices:

Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.

Crm

As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

Diabetes

We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

Vascular

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

Neuromodulation

Our Neuromodulation business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum.

Structural Heart

Structural Heart Business Mission:  why we exist

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of structural heart disease.

Ep

In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

Hf

In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

Diagnostics

We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

Abbott Molecular is a leader in molecular diagnostics and the analysis of DNA, RNA, and proteins at the molecular level.

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key heath and therapeutic areas, including infections disease, cardiometabolic, informatics and toxicology.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges.

Nutrition

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, and Glucerna® – to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives.

The base pay for this position is

$112,000.00 – $224,000.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

Job Family:

Market Access

Division:

ADC Diabetes Care

Location:

United States > Alameda : 1360-1380 South Loop Road

Additional Locations:

Work Shift:

Standard

Travel:

Yes, 15 % of the Time

Medical Surveillance:

No

Significant Work Activities:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdfEEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf