Manager, Provincial Affairs, Alberta

6 months ago


Edmonton, Canada AbbVie Full time

**Company Description**

Joining AbbVie means, you will be part of a team of outstanding professionals dedicated to making a remarkable impact on patients' lives. At AbbVie, we conduct ground-breaking science on a global scale every day. AbbVie Canada is one of the Best Workplaces in Canada whereby 90% of our employees are proud to say they work for AbbVie and 88% are proud of how we contribute to the community.

AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines 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, eye care, virology, women’s health, and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

When choosing your career path, choose to be remarkable.

We are looking for a Manager, Market Access & Government Affairs to join our Market Access & Government Affairs (MA & GA) team. This position reports directly to the Field Lead, Market Access & Government Affairs and is field based covering the immunology therapeutic area in Alberta.

**Key responsibilities**:
Gain and maintain market access for all of AbbVie products with provincial payers in Alberta.

Oversee the Alberta government payer and policy-maker interactions related to immunology: to develop and execute AbbVie’s health policy strategy and tactical plans.

Support the MA & GA team’s development and implementation of the annual Alberta customer plans. Track the execution and impact of MA & GA lobbying policy-making activities.

Identify health policy barriers and ensure optimal policy conditions and reimbursement for current and future AbbVie immunology products.

Play an active role with therapeutic area in field teams and identify opportunities to work collaboratively with cross-functional colleagues to deliver on brand objectives.

Work closely with the Community Relations team, as needed, to encourage advocacy including provincial patient evidence submissions.

Play an active role with provincial regional biopharmaceutical industry association committees (Innovative Medicines Canada, BIOTECanada; Provincial Life Sciences Organizations).

Identify and shape multi-stakeholder projects that are of interest to policy makers / public payers and that position AbbVie as a trusted and expert stakeholder.

Liaise with Market Access & HEOR team to support in providing policy makers/drug plan managers with customized relevant clinical and health economic information.

Work closely with the Lead, GA & Policy to execute external affairs plans and ensure needs are reflected in planning.

Responsible for developing the GA strategy and tactical plan in collaboration with the Lead GA and the Field Lead MA & GA.

Manage the Alberta regional brands and corporate budgets.

Influence the development of provincial legislation and policy, leveraging customized value propositions in Alberta policymakers, where appropriate.

Work closely with the Field Lead MA & GA to support financial cycle and ensure the tactical plan is aligned with the MA strategy.
**Qualifications** Education/Experience Required**:
Bachelor's degree in commerce or science.

At least eight years of experience in a similar role or in a role that would provide the skill requirements.

MA and GA experience (either provincial or federal), with previous involvement and success in influencing the development of legislation and policy.

Policy analysis experience and ability to support position papers and expeditiously respond in writing to proposed legislation and new health policies.

In-depth knowledge of Canadian health care system: including roles, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies I Health (CADTH), private and provincial governments drug approval processes

High-level public/stakeholder relationship experience with Alberta payers.

Knowledge of the healthcare landscape, including local /provincial payer and private healthcare environment and funding budget flows.

Strong knowledge of Pharmaco-economic, outcome research and real-word evidence principles.

**Essential skills & abilities**:
Build strong relationships with high-level government (including ministers, deputy ministers, Premier’s offices); public health care policymakers, influencers; provincial and private payers.

Translate brand strategies into actionable and realistic GA & MA engagement plans to ensure a supportive regional policy environment for AbbVie immunology products.

Collect and share insights with MA team to support the development of value propositions addressing the policymakers and public health care stakeholders’ needs.

Ability to take key actions and demonstrate behaviors that support AbbVie’s core and leadership and brand teams behavior

Strong communication, presentation, and strategy development skills. Proficiency in writing is necessary.

Travel within Canada is a


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