ABBOTT LABORATORIES Market Access Manager Salary in the United States

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 103,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Exciting new opportunity to join Abbott's fast growing Diabetes Care division, home to the world-leading FreeStyle Libre continuous glucose monitor (CGM) system.

The Market Access Manager will:

• Support efforts to remove or lower barriers to patient access to company products by developing and implementing strategies directed at healthcare providers, thought leaders, payers, health plans, public agencies and patient advocacy groups; 
• Ensure Market Access for current and pipeline products;
• Develop and implement market access and reimbursement tactical plans for new and existing products;  
• Monitor relevant health policy developments and provide meaningful guidance on opportunities and risks for product adoption and suggest actions to mitigate the risk;
• Work with public and private payers, Medical and Actuarial Directors to negotiate coverage and payment.

Major Responsibilities: Coordinate and develop market access projects with internal and external stakeholders; provide guidance on reimbursement research as well as patient advocacy efforts. Manage deliverables such as reimbursement dossiers, reimbursement landscape analyses, consultant driven research projects; ensure that deliverables are accomplished on time and within budget.  Work with Global Market Access and Reimbursement, Global Marketing, R&D, Medical, Clinical, HEOR and selected consultants and KOL's to create effective channels of communication and gain support in the formation of the value proposition and the implementation of the strategy.  Assist in guiding the outcome of Health Technology Assessments, where they are used to determine coverage, coding and payment.

Education:  Masters Degree is preferred; desirable would be higher education in health studies, business or economics due to anticipated involvement in HEOR evidence creation to support reimbursement applications.

Background: Minimum of three years of experience in Market Access and Reimbursement for pharmaceutical products, medical devices or diagnostics, gained, ideally  in more than one National healthcare delivery system.  Good working knowledge of market access and reimbursement pathways, health technology assessment, Health Economic and Outcomes Research (HEOR) as well as peer review publication strategies are highly desirable;  excellent verbal and written communication skills in English is a must and one or more additional languages would be a plus.