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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 forfree medical coverage in ourHealth Investment Plan (HIP) PPOmedical 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 Division. 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're committed to continuous improvement in the way patients and professionals measure, track and analyze glucose levels.

As a Manager of Market Access Forecasting, you will support the quarterly Managed Care forecast process and contribute to volume and trend analysis, epidemiology modeling, financial analysis, and performance metric evaluation for the Managed Care organization. In this role, you will collaborate cross-functionally with Account Management, Finance, Contracting, and Access Strategies teams to deliver forecasts and provide analytical insights that inform business decisions. This is an onsite opportunity in Alameda, CA.

What You'll Do

• Support the development, refinement, and ongoing maintenance of Managed Care forecasts across multiple product portfolios
• Effectively collaborate with Account Management, Strategic Contracting, and Finance to align on key assumptions and inputs
• Incorporate payer coverage, contracted rates, formulary positioning, and utilization management criteria into forecast assumptions
• Drive forecasting best practices, standardization, and continuous process improvements
• Maintain clear documentation and transparency around key assumptions, methodologies, and outputs
• Establish and track forecasting KPIs, and produce regular reports to monitor forecast accuracy
• Present insights, findings, and recommendations to leadership to inform strategic decision-making and planning
• Complete special projects and other duties as assigned

Experience You'll Bring

Required

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Minimum 7 years of related professional experience
• Strong analytical, quantitative, and communication skills
• Solid financial acumen, with the ability to build and execute financial models in Microsoft Excel
• Excellent problem-solving, critical-thinking, and time management skills

Preferred

• Experience with Tableau or other data visualization/BI tools
• Familiarity with coverage policy databases (i.e. MMIT, Fingertip Formulary/DRG, Policy Reporter)
• 5+ years forecasting and/or analytical experience, preferably within the healthcare industry in a market science or business analytics role
• Familiarity with U.S. market access dynamics; experience in the diabetes and/or medical device space is a plus

Apply Now

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Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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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 ngersticks.

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