AbbVie hiring Healthcare Partnership Manager (HPM) – 12 mth FTC - North & East Scotland (Immunology Team) in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom | LinkedIn (2024)

Company DescriptionAbbVie'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 DescriptionHealthcare Partnership Manager (HPM) – 12 mth FTC - North & East Scotland (Immunology Team)

• This is a 12-month FTC due to an internal secondment
• Field based role reporting to the Healthcare Business Manager (HBM)
• Competitive salary, company car and exceptional benefits package

Objective of the role:

• Implementation of Market Access element of the Brand Strategy for Immunology Products through Integrated Account Management.
• Ensure rapid access to innovative medicines, anticipate access barriers, work to achieve optimal positioning and funding of AbbVie products in line with brand strategy and AbbVie’s value proposition
• A comprehensive understanding of the NHS environment including Integrated Care Systems or the relevant devolved nation equivalent
• Proactively responding to the changing NHS environment and payer needs and share insights across organisation
• Analysis of patient pathways to identify pinch points and inefficiencies to support the development and project management of solutions in order to improve the efficiency of these pathways to demonstrably improve the use of NHS resources and patient care
• Deliver projects that improve patient outcomes and create efficiencies within the NHS and reduce health inequalities for people across the UK
• Collaborate with the NHS to pool skills, experience and resources to deliver projects that support the appropriate use of medicines in line with local or national guidance through Collaborative and Joint working projects in line with AbbVie SOPs and approved briefing

Key responsibilities:Act with the highest ethical standards in accordance with AbbVie’s policies, procedures, local laws, regulations and the ABPI Code of Practice.

Promotional Activities

• Plays a leading part within the Immunology cross functional infield team and identifies opportunities to work collaboratively with cross-functional colleagues to deliver on brand objectives and optimise the performance of key accounts.
• Maps and understands the role that all key stakeholders play in relation to influencing, decision making and funding mechanisms across the territory.
• Achieves sales targets and functional outcomes in line with actions in the integrated account management plans.
• Ensures optimal funding of AbbVie products through negotiation on designated commercial pricing schemes.
• Documents and shares insights with the organisation, including other areas of the organisation that may interact with payers such as pricing and contracts and Government Affairs
• Develops plans with clear objectives, Milestones, contingencies and next step actions to optimise the funding & access of AbbVie products
• Identifies and shapes multi-stakeholder projects which add value to the NHS and that position AbbVie as a trusted and expert partner company.
• Where appropriate, supports contracting and tendering processes and facilitate the development and delivery of proposals

Non promotional activities

• Delivery of Advanced Budget Notification in line with ABPI Code of Practice, Abbvie SOPs, AbbVie processes and approved briefing.
• Collaborative and Joint working projects in line with AbbVie SOPs, AbbVie processes and approved briefing and
• These activities must be delivered separately from any promotional activities.

QualificationsQualifications and Experience:

• Degree in Business, Marketing, Life Sciences, or relevant professional experiences.
• Must be ABPI qualified.
• Previous experience in Infield Market Access preferred but not essential.
• Experience of launching a new pharmaceutical product into an HTA or single-payer market
• Strong knowledge of the UK healthcare system at all levels (CCG, Trust, National)
• Experience and strong ability in working collaboratively across matrix functions.

Additional Information

AbbVie 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.