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Associate Director, Oncology Market Access Marketing

AbbVie · Mettawa, IL · Full time · Other

Posted Aug 31, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

You'd represent market access in brand governance forums including annual and long-range planning. How do you get access considerations into a brand plan early?

What they are checking: Whether they can get access realities into brand plans early, before decisions are made that payers will later refuse to cover.

What would you do

You'd lead a recurring cross-functional forum to identify and resolve access challenges. How do you run a forum that resolves things rather than lists them?

What they are checking: Whether they can run a cross-functional meeting that ends in owners and decisions, rather than a weekly list of unresolved complaints.

You'd synthesize field insights for leadership. How do you tell an anecdote from a signal?

What they are checking: Whether they can tell a single loud story from a real trend in field reports, before leadership acts on the wrong one.

A payer places a restrictive policy on your product. Walk me through your response.

What they are checking: Whether they respond to a coverage restriction calmly and methodically, since protecting patient access is the core of this role.

Where is the compliance line between market access work and anything that could look like inducement?

What they are checking: Whether they understand where access support crosses into inducement, because that line carries real legal risk for the company and for them.

This is based at Mettawa on a specific oncology brand. What would you want to know about the product's current access position before you took it?

What they are checking: Whether they would ask hard questions about the brand's current access position before accepting, which signals the judgment the job needs.

About the work

This role leads payer strategy for an oncology brand. Walk me through building a payer strategy for a new oncology product.

What they are checking: Whether they can build an oncology payer strategy from evidence, pricing and contracting, since that is the core job this role exists to do.

You'd monitor the payer policy landscape and produce regular policy updates. What would you be watching right now that could change oncology access?

What they are checking: Whether they are already tracking current payer and policy changes in oncology, because this role is expected to warn leadership early.

You'd support channel-specific strategies including community oncology and group purchasing organizations. How do those two channels differ in what they need?

What they are checking: Whether they understand that community oncology practices and purchasing groups buy and decide differently, and need different strategies to match.

You'd track account activation and launch-readiness metrics. What tells you a launch is going well from an access standpoint?

What they are checking: Whether they know which access signals show a launch is on track, so problems surface before they cost the brand patients.

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The full job description

As published by AbbVie.

The Oncology Market Access Marketing Associate Director, DECNUPAZ Associate Director, leads payer-strategy activities that help ensure seamless patient access to the brand. This role integrates market access insights into cross-functional and financial strategic decisions while building the evidence, partnerships, and operational readiness required for effective launch execution and sustained brand performance. Key Responsibilities Core/Primary Responsibilities: Access Monitoring, Launch Execution, and Strategic Decision-Making • Monitor the payer policy landscape and produce regular policy updates and communications in partnership with market access analytics teams. • Track account activation and launch-readiness metrics; synthesize field insights; and provide regular reporting to commercial leadership and executive business reviews. • Represent Market Access in cross-functional brand governance forums, including brand team meetings, annual strategy and planning, long-range planning, and latest best estimate forecasting, to ensure access realities inform strategic and financial decisions. • Lead a recurring cross-functional access forum to proactively identify, prioritize, and resolve access challenges and opportunities. • Support the development and finalization of channel-specific strategies, including community oncology and group purchasing organization (GPO) strategies, in partnership with brand and market access leadership. Secondary Responsibilities: Building the Evidence and Execution Foundation for Future Planning Cycles • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to plan and execute advisory boards that generate insights for future brand and market access strategy. • Manage budget stewardship and vendor or agency processes, including scope-of-work submissions and optimization of available funds. • Partner with market access analytics and research teams to build evidence bases, including market research, that support future tactical execution. Additional Responsibilities: Informing Future Strategic Engagement • Support research and evaluation of conference and congress engagement opportunities to inform future brand presence and stakeholder-engagement strategy. Scope & Remit The Payer Strategy Associate Director serves as a strategic Market Access representative across the brand and enterprise. The role influences cross-functional and financial decisions by translating payer, channel, and access realities into actionable recommendations, priorities, and operating plans. • Collaborates across Market Access, Brand, Finance, Trade, Medical, and external vendors and agencies, representing the market access point of view in decision-making forums. • Owns defined operational cadences, including weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly reporting, governance meetings, and cross-functional access forums. Required Qualifications: • Bachelor’s Degree required to enable this individual to demonstrate an appropriate level of business acumen, the ability to process scientific information and financial analysis. • Demonstrated ability to understand clinical aspects of a pharmaceutical product and its application to marketing strategy and tactical execution. • 5-7 years of marketing or market access experience required • Previous experience supporting HCP-administered assets. • Knowledge of the Commercial and Medicare FFS aspects of the Medical Benefit and associated utilization management and reimbursement dynamics. Preferred Qualifications: • Previous Oncology experience strongly preferred, but not required • 3 years of US Market Access experience preferred • Pre-launch activities and Market Access launch experience • Demonstrated understanding of financial planning and analysis • Master’s Degree Key Leadership Competencies: • Builds strong relationships with peers and internal matrix partners to enable exceptional performance and seamless execution of key deliverables. • Exceptional learning agility, grasps the “essence” and can change the course quickly when necessary. • Raises the bar and is never satisfied with the status quo. • Cultivates a learning environment, open to suggestions and experimentation for improvement. • Embraces the ideas of others, nurtures innovation, and manages innovation to reality. • Positive, solutions-oriented attitude required. Key Collaborators/Stakeholders • Market Access field teams; market access analytics and research partners; Brand Marketing; Finance; Trade; Medical Affairs; GPO Marketing; and external agency and vendor partners. 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. 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