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Associate Director, Immunology Payer Strategy

AbbVie · Mettawa, IL · Full time · Marketing

Posted Aug 21, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about a time you worked with legal, regulatory and compliance on payer materials. Where did it get difficult?

What they are checking: The governance partnership this posting names explicitly.

The posting says you influence without direct authority across medical, health economics, trade, patient services and brand marketing. Tell me about mediating a cross-functional disagreement.

What they are checking: Influence and mediation, which this role runs on.

This is based in Mettawa, asks for five or more years in marketing, market access or immunology, and sits on the Immunology Payer Strategy Team alongside portfolio work. What do you want to know about how this brand's strategy fits with the rest of the immunology portfolio?

What they are checking: Whether they probe the portfolio context the posting mentions.

What would you do

A payer says your product costs more than the alternative and the outcomes look similar to them. How do you answer?

What they are checking: The hardest payer objection in a crowded immunology class.

A competitor publishes economic evidence that undercuts your access position. What do you do in the first two weeks?

What they are checking: Anticipating and responding to the access environment shift the posting names.

How do you manage an agency producing payer resources so the output is strategic rather than just well designed?

What they are checking: Agency management, which this role owns.

About the work

This role owns the payer strategy for a psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis product. Walk me through how you would build the payer value proposition.

What they are checking: Value proposition construction in the specific indication this role covers.

How do you decide which evidence gap is worth filling when real-world evidence studies take time and money?

What they are checking: Evidence prioritization, which this posting makes a stated duty.

How do you use health economic outcomes research and treatment guidelines together in payer messaging without overstating either?

What they are checking: Evidence discipline in material that legal and regulatory will review.

How do you measure whether payer messaging is actually working in the field?

What they are checking: The performance measures and feedback mechanisms this posting requires.

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The full job description

As published by AbbVie.

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 • 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 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.​ AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more: https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html

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