Senior Manager of Strategic Pricing & Contracting

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 114000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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 for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical 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 a remote 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 Senior Manager of Strategic Pricing & Contracting you will be responsible for managing contract development and negotiation for the Market Access / Managed Care Channel. The position will work cross-functionally with Account Management Finance Forecasting Contract Operations and Access Strategies teams to provide strategic contracting partnership and analytical insights to support decision-making.  This position requires an experienced contracting professional with strong attention to detail and adaptable to constantly shifting priorities.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the negotiation of complex contract terms for Managed Care / Market Access contracts across large PBM/GPO relationships.

• Employ a strong understanding of the U.S. healthcare landscape including Commercial Payors Pharmacy and Medical Benefit structures CMS and FDA guidelines to inform strategic contracting decisions.

• Translate pricing strategies to contractual terms such as price protection and rebate structures.

• Assess and quantify the impact and risk of both financial and non-financial contract terms.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and enhance contract development effectiveness and drive continuous process improvements.

• Identify and anticipate key trends and assess opportunities and risks for contract negotiations.

Experience You'll Bring

Required

• B.A./B.S. required

• 7  years’ experience in roles of progressive responsibility to develop the competence required to meet the skills and responsibilities of the position.

• Accomplished and skillful in execution.

• Strong financial acumen including compliance

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Effective leadership skills

• Strong customer orientation and focus

• Professional presence and polished presentation skills.

• Ability to evaluate complex processes.

• Ability to establish strategic direction and lead change.

• Ability to influence and lead both with and without direct authority.

• Ability to use various types of databases and other computer software.

Preferred

• Minimum 3+ years’ experience in Retail Pharmacy Payor/PBM contracting

• Minimum 3+ years’ people management experience

• Excellent analytical written and verbal communication and negotiation skills

• CLM systems or pricing software tools knowledge (e.g. Model N DocuSign etc)

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Divisional Information

Medical Devices

General Medical Devices:

Our medical devices help more than 10000 people have healthier hearts improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders and liberate more than 500000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.

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.

The base pay for this position is

$111300.00 – $222700.00

In specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY:

Market Access

DIVISION:

ADC Diabetes Care

LOCATION:

United States of America : Remote

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

TRAVEL:

Yes 20 % of the Time

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

No

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day) Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdfEEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf