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 Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

Purpose

The Medical Outcomes and Science Liaison (MOSL) is a field-based scientific expert within AbbVie’s Value & Access department who uses clinical expertise and experience/ knowledge of managed care, health policy, and pharmacoeconomics to support AbbVie’s scientific strategy across the entire product portfolio and relevant therapeutic areas. The MOSL engages in peer to peer scientific and health economic discussions with external health care access decision makers (HCDMs) and influencers within US public and private health care entities, including but not limited to, managed care organizations (MCOs), specialty pharmacy providers (SPPs), pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), integrated delivery networks (IDNs), accountable care organizations (ACOs), employers and employee health benefits consultants (EHBCs), within assigned geography. The MOSL identifies and builds strong relationships with key regional HCDM customers and serves as the primary medical liaison between AbbVie and the customer.

Responsibilities

This role is considered remote but requires the employee to work within a reasonable distance from the primary cities.

• The MOSL seeks to proactively identify and work with internal and external partners to help advance AbbVie’s field scientific strategies across the entire AbbVie product portfolio. Relationship development and account management. Identification of key HCDMs within an account.

• Tailored communication of scientific, health outcomes, and health policy information to a varied HCDM audience. Maintain and continually enhance clinical, scientific, and current healthcare landscape expertise.

• Communicate and report data point observations.

• Ability to identify and develop scientific opportunities across all managed markets stakeholders within assigned geography.

• Integrate with US Medical Affairs, US Market Access, Global Health Economics & Outcomes Research, and other internal stakeholders as appropriate and as identified through Value & Access leadership. Exhibits peer leadership among internal field medical stakeholders in account management.

• Identify, anticipate and address population level scientific, outcomes research, and health policy needs of customers becoming the trusted scientific advisor while leveraging internal and external resources to meet customer needs, as appropriate.

• Provide clinical and health economic support, including analysis and appraisal of health technology assessments, to healthcare access decision makers and influencers for AbbVie's Therapeutic Areas, new products, new/updated indications and marketed products.

• Solutions-oriented; Contribute, as needed, to create innovative strategies to address specific customer clinical outcomes and health economic questions and needs that align with the core medical affairs strategies.

• Participate in various therapeutic advisory activities involving both marketed and investigational products, spanning the full product life cycle, partnering with HCDMs across all channels within managed markets and participate in other strategic initiatives as identified through Value & Access.

• Completes all required training, expense reporting, and other individual administrative responsibilities; Conducts all business activities in accordance with corporate policy & acceptable practices and state/federal law.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Advanced degree required, preferably M.D., D.O., Pharm.D. or Ph.D.

• Three (3) to five (5) years of experience in a Managed Care/PBM, VA/DoD, CMS, State Medicaid, health care consulting, pharmaceutical industry or related environment preferred. Completion of relevant Residency or Fellowship programs may be considered in lieu of some work experience. Account management experience in a commercial or clinical setting is preferred.

• Required skills include: strong scientific acumen, impactful communication skills, active listening skills, networking, relationship development, lead/influence without authority, business analysis skills, advanced technical expertise and business analysis skills, critical thinking, innovative problem-solving skills and negotiation skills.

• Teamwork involving internal/external networking within the territory and cross-functionally.

• Adaptability to changing market dynamics and competitive challenges. High sense of urgency and commitment to excellence in the successful achievement of objectives. Excellent planning and organizational skills to leadership and initiative.

• An essential requirement of the position is to meet health care industry representative (HCIR) credentialing requirements to gain entry into facilities and organizations that are in the assigned territory. These HCIR credentialing requirements may include, but are not limited to, background checks, drug screens, and proof of immunization/vaccination for various diseases.

• Ability to travel 50% of the time.

• The candidate must live in the territory or willing to self-relocate within the territory. The majority of the territory is in Western PA. Job grade, level, and title will be determined by the selected candidate’s credentials, education, and experience.

Key Stakeholders

The MOSL will primarily have responsibility for engagement with healthcare access decision makers and influencers to provide scientific, health economic, and health policy information, in order to, facilitate well informed access decisions.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• 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 posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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