Associate Director, Field Reimbursement, Immunology Rheumatology and Dermatology

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 X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

"This role is field-based, and candidates should live within a reasonable distance from the primary city."

The geography includes the following cities:

• Dallas, Texas
• Houston, Texas
• Austin, Texas
• San Antonio, Texas
• New Orleans, Louisiana

The Associate Director, Field Reimbursement Manager - Immunology Rheumatology/Dermatology manages and coaches a regional team of Field Access Specialists, who educate HCPs on AbbVie patient experience programs, focusing on access and reimbursement support. The primary responsibility is to ensure their team of FAS effectively engages customers to understand key coverage, coding, payment, product acquisition and affordability dynamics for AbbVie products in their local geography. This role will spend most of the time working with the FAS and conducting quarterly field rides to ensure the FAS is compliantly and effectively leveraging the tools and materials provided by AbbVie. In addition, this role will help implement and monitor quality control measures to ensure all team members are compliant with AbbVie expectations and ways of working. The Associate Director, Field Reimbursement Manager - Immunology Rheumatology/Dermatology  must effectively and compliantly engage with a team of internal stakeholders, including Patient Services, Managed Health Care, Sales, and Access and Reimbursement hub.

Responsibilities

• Ensure team compliance with the appropriate ways of working
• Assist in the implementation of patient services access resources and programs into area execution, including identifying training needs, in-field and National/Regional meetings, with the purpose of elevating regional effectiveness
• Work with peers in Market Access and Trade to understand the changing Healthcare Landscape and communicates appropriate information to the FAS team
• Appropriately communicate patient services and access program information to sales teams in a compliant way
• Utilize analytics tools to monitor call activity and capacity
• Develop, implement and execute effective skill development plans for direct reports. Deliver consistent coaching direction via field-travel and meeting engagements and optimize their ability to provide effective access to support HCPs.
• Develop, monitor and advance development planning process with direct reports.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in coverage, coding, managed healthcare, and/or market access in neuroscience in Managed Health Care, Payer Account Management, Field Reimbursement Manager or equivalent role
• Minimum 3 years of experience leading field teams, successful team coaching, management and personnel development experience
• Bachelor's degree in health, sciences, pharmacy or business-related field preferred or relevant and equivalent industry experience required.
• Thorough understanding of the technical payer policy processes, systems and requirements for coverage, coding and payment for specialty medicines
• Demonstrated understanding of the rules, regulations and risks associated with provision of reimbursement support services and how to monitor and mitigate for those risks. Demonstrated deep technical understanding of coverage, coding, payment and distribution of specialty products and the rules and regulations that govern provision of reimbursement support.
• Comprehensive understanding of Parts A, B, C and D or Medicare and associated reimbursement dynamics
• Strong understanding of drug acquisition and dispensing in the Neuroscience space (role of Specialty Pharmacies, Specialty Distributors and white-bagging, etc.)
• Track record of strong leadership contributions
• Driving a personal auto or company car or truck, or a powered piece of material handling equipment
• Valid driver’s license: Ability to pass a pre-employment drug screening test and meet safe driving requirements.
• An essential requirement of your position is to satisfy all applicable health care industry representative (HCIR) credentialing requirements to gain and maintain entry into facilities and organizations that are in your assigned territory. You must also be in good standing and/or eligible to obtain these credentials.
• These HCIR credentialing requirements may include, but are not limited to, background checks, drug screens, proof of immunization/vaccination for various diseases, fingerprinting and specific licenses required by individual state or cities. Please remember that you are solely responsible for ensuring that you satisfy all HCIR credentialing requirements and for any associated liability for failing to do so. to AbbVie has resources to answer questions you may have regarding your responsibilities.

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. 

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