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Smile Brands

Director of Payer Strategy

Overview The Director, Payer Strategy is responsible for leading Smile Brands' payer contracting, relationship management, and payer performance initiatives. This role develops and maintains ...

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The Payer Strategy Analyst owns the end-to-end lifecycle of case-by-case insurance contracts. In this role, you will analyze incoming out-of-network referrals, negotiate sustainable reimbursement ...

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This is a high-impact role at the intersection of finance, strategy, and payer relations-responsible for shaping how the organization delivers sustainable growth in an increasingly complex ...

0090 Presbyterian System Services

WI · On-site

$150 - $180/hr

This high‑impact role sits at the intersection of finance, strategy, and payer relations--responsible for shaping how the organization delivers sustainable growth in an increasingly complex ...

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Professionals in Payer Strategy are responsible for developing and executing strategies to optimize relationships with health insurance payers, negotiate reimbursement contracts, and ensure organizational compliance with payer requirements. They often analyze market trends, assess payer performance metrics, and collaborate closely with clinical, financial, and legal teams to align contract terms with business objectives. This role frequently requires preparing data-driven presentations and recommendations for executive leadership. By managing these complex relationships and agreements, Payer Strategy professionals directly influence both the financial success and patient access to care within their organizations.

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Associate Director, Immunology Payer Strategy

Mettawa, IL • On-site

AbbVie
Scientific Research and Development Services • 10K+ employees

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$141K/yr

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Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement, PTO

Posted 9 days ago

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Company Description
About AbbVie
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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.
Job Description
The Associate Director, Immunology Payer Strategy will lead the development, evolution, and deployment of the SKYRIZI Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis payer strategy and customer narrative to support business performance across the long-range plan. This role will translate payer and customer insights, clinical and economic evidence, market performance, and the evolving access environment into differentiated, actionable strategies and messages. The Associate Director will serve as a strategic market access leader for the assigned brands, partnering across functions to ensure that payer needs and access considerations are integrated into brand strategy, evidence planning, customer engagement, and commercial execution.
Key responsibilities include:
  • Own and evolve the payer strategy and customer narrative for SKYRIZI psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, including the payer value proposition, customer segmentation, strategic priorities, annual brand plan inputs, and execution roadmap
  • Develop differentiated, evidence-based payer messaging by leveraging clinical data, health economic outcomes research, real-world evidence, treatment guidelines, and market performance data. Ensure that payer messages are relevant to customer needs and aligned with the overall payer strategy
  • Identify and prioritize evidence and RWE needs by assessing evidence gaps, defining payer-relevant evidence priorities, and partnering with Medical, HEOR, and other stakeholders to support development and translation of an integrated evidence strategy
  • Drive resource development through effective agency management; ensure appropriate governance and compliance by partnering with Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance to ensure that payer claims and materials are appropriately supported and consistent with applicable requirements
  • Establish performance measures and feedback mechanisms to assess the effectiveness of payer strategy, messaging, resource deployment, and customer engagement; use findings to refine strategy and execution
  • Serve as the Market Access subject matter expert for the Integrated Brand Teams, providing strategic guidance on payer dynamics, access messaging, brand planning, evidence needs, and competitive readiness
  • Partner within the Immunology Payer Strategy Team to ensure alignment with SKYRIZI and portfolio value propositions, promote consistency, and coordinate training, deployment, and maintenance of Payer Team resources
  • Lead cross-functional workstreams and facilitate strategic alignment across Medical Payer Strategy, HEOR, Trade, Patient Services, Brand Marketing, and other internal partner
  • Influence without direct authority by building productive relationships, driving timely decisions, mediating cross-functional issues, and communicating recommendations effectively to stakeholders and senior leaders
  • Anticipate and prepare for changes in the access environment, including competitor clinical and economic evidence, contracting and formulary strategies, policy developments, guideline changes, customer landscape evolution, and other market dynamics that may affect SKYRIZI's payer positioning
  • Demonstrate a "One AbbVie" mindset by considering enterprise priorities, seeking opportunities to leverage learning across brands and therapeutic areas, and sharing effective approaches across the broader Market Access organization

Qualifications
  • Ideal candidate should have 5+ years of experience in Marketing, Market Access and/or Immunology
  • Cross-functional experiences including field sales, finance, and/or market analytics valued
  • Strong strategic thinking, business acumen, and communications skills required
  • Advanced agility, project management and prioritization skills
  • Positive, solutions-oriented attitude required
  • Bachelor's Degree required

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 long-term incentive programs.

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.
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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, and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn.

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10,000+ Employees

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North Chicago, IL, US

Year founded

2013

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