AbbVie Posted July 29, 2026

Principal Data Scientist, 340B Strategy & Analytics

Mettawa, IL Full-time
Biostatistics & Data Science Principal

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About this opportunity

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions 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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at  www.abbvie.com . Follow @abbvie on  LinkedIn,   Facebook ,  Instagram ,  X  and  YouTube.

Job Description

The 340B Drug Pricing program has become an increasingly important area of focus impacting AbbVie’s business. Originally designed to help safety-net hospitals and clinics provide better care to underserved communities, the program has grown significantly in scale and complexity.  As a result, AbbVie has established a high profile, 340B Center of Excellence (COE), that brings together a team of experts who leverage analytics, insights, and innovative solutions to support strategy, strengthen program oversight, and address emerging industry challengThe 340B COE Principal Data Scientist will join the team with deep expertise in the business and operations of the 340B program. The team is responsible for maintaining and strengthening AbbVie’s 340B program, developing reporting and dashboards to track performance and entity eligibility compliance, managing duplicate discount detection and remediation, supporting covered entity eligibility policy, and building models to assess the impact of policy changes, initiatives, and government actions. This role will develop advanced analytics, outlier detection, new tools, models, and platforms to monitor 340B performance and forecast future trends.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Principal Data Scientist to lead advanced analytical initiatives supporting AbbVie’s 340B Center of Excellence. This high-impact individual contributor role operates at a Senior Manager level and will drive strategic insights, develop scalable analytical solutions, and partner with cross-functional teams to support enterprise decision making.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in healthcare and pharmaceutical data, including familiarity with the 340B program, along with strong analytical rigor and the ability to translate complex data into actionable business recommendations.

Primary responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to:

Analytics, Data Science & Modeling

Lead the design and execution of advanced analytical projects supporting 340B strategy, optimization, and operations using large, complex healthcare and pharmaceutical datasets

Support the prevention and elimination of duplicate discounts and diversion in all channels

Build and maintain scalable data models, dashboards, and analytical tools to support data-driven decision making across the organization

Manage the full analytics process, including data sourcing, cleansing, exploration, modeling, and validation

Integrate new data sources to improve 340B program oversight, monitoring and management

Develop predictive and prescriptive models to forecast utilization, identify leakage, and drive program optimization

Apply advanced modeling approaches, such as knowledge graphs, to integrate diverse data sources (e.g. claims, EHR, wholesaler, etc.) and uncover hidden relationships for better decision support

Evaluate and integrate emerging AI tools to enhance analytical capabilities

Translate complex analyses into clear, actionable recommendations for senior leadership

Stay current with evolving 340B program requirements, healthcare data sources, emerging technologies, and industry best practices

Data Strategy & Enablement

Design scalable data solutions, frameworks, and best practices to enhance analytical capabilities

Improve data quality, governance, and integrity across 340B-related datasets

Contribute to the continued evolution of the 340B Center of Excellence through innovation and continuous improvement

Partnership and Communication

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align analytics with business priorities

Serve as a trusted advisor on policy and operational decisions through data-driven insights

Develop presentations and materials that distill complex analyses into strategic narratives, including strong data storytelling and visualization

Strengthen dashboard reporting, KPI tracking, and measurement of 340B initiative impact

Qualifications

Education: Requires minimum of a bachelor’s degree (master’s degree preferred), in fields including Statistics, Business Analytics, Mathematics, Data Science, Computer Science, Economics, or another quantitative discipline

Experience: 5-10+ years of professional experience in healthcare with significant advanced analytics, reporting, and modeling experience within the pharmaceuticals industry; proven success delivering high-impact pharmaceutical insights from large, complex datasets

Domain Expertise: Strong understanding of healthcare business dynamics and data; knowledge of 340B flows highly preferred

Technical Proficiencies: Advanced proficiency in programming languages and querying tools, advanced analytics and modeling, and visualization tools

Leadership Skills: Strong strategic thinking, problem solving, intellectual curiosity, communication and the ability to translate complex data into compelling executive storytelling

Additional Information

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 thisposting 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 anduntil 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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Job details

Seniority
Principal
Function
Biostatistics & Data Science
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Mettawa, IL
Employment type
Full-time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Biostatistics & Data Science role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 62 comparable Principal Biostatistics & Data Science roles across 16 biopharma companies.

62Comparable roles tracked
55Currently active
16Companies hiring similar roles
13Countries represented

Salary context

23 of 62 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject $124,500/yr – $236,500/yr
Lowest disclosed · Sr. Computational Statistician (R2 – R3) · Lilly $46,842/yr – $117,289/yr
Highest disclosed · Scientific Director, Clinical and Real World Evidence · AbbVie $211,000/yr – $400,500/yr
Peer group range $82,066 – $305,750 (median $183,250)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 62 comparable roles

United States36
India6
Japan4
United Kingdom4
Germany3
China2

+ 7 more countries

Seniority mix

62 of 62 peers have a known seniority level

Senior27
Principal24
Director11

Therapeutic area mix

4 of 62 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology4

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