AbbVie Posted August 21, 2026

Associate Director, Immunology Payer Strategy

Mettawa, IL Full-time
BD&L & Strategic Planning Immunology Associate Director
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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 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

Qualifications

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

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 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.​

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Job details

Seniority
Associate Director
Function
BD&L & Strategic Planning
Therapeutic area
Immunology
Location
Mettawa, IL
Employment type
Full-time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active BD&L & Strategic Planning role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 129 comparable Associate Director BD&L & Strategic Planning roles across 42 biopharma companies.

129Comparable roles tracked
114Currently active
42Companies hiring similar roles
25Countries represented

Salary context

44 of 129 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 $141,500/yr – $268,500/yr
Lowest disclosed · Manager, Portfolio Management · Sandoz $0/hr – $0/hr (≈ $0–$0/yr)
Highest disclosed · Global Tech Sr Strategist · IQVIA $163,100/yr – $453,700/yr
Peer group range $0 – $308,400 (median $180,500)

Where these roles are based

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United States67
India12
China11
Germany6
Japan5
United Kingdom3

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Seniority mix

129 of 129 peers have a known seniority level

Manager73
Associate Director42
Senior14

Therapeutic area mix

15 of 129 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Dermatology & Aesthetics9
Oncology2
Neuroscience1
Immunology1
Cardiovascular / CVRM1
Gastroenterology1

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