JOB DESCRIPTION:
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year
- An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
- Tuition reimbursement, the [Freedom 2 Save](https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program and [FreeU](https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
- A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
- A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists
Abbott’s medical device businesses have offered faster, more effective, and less invasive technologies for years. Whether it’s a glucose monitoring system, innovative therapies for treating heart disease, or products that help people with chronic pain or movement disorders, our medical device technologies are designed to help people live better and healthier lives. Every day, our technologies help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve the quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine finger sticks.
We are recruiting a Senior Manager, Field Health Economics and reimbursement (HE&R), to support our Vascular division. This position will educate facilities and clinicians on device-specific coverage, coding, and payment models to establish and maintain economic awareness. You’ll work cross functionally at the customer level to strengthen reimbursement fundamentals and patient access strategies.
What You’ll Do
- Provide customer education on the healthcare landscape to expand product adoption and customer retention.
- Partner closely with US sales organization to deliver customer value messaging.
- Present to various stakeholders, including physicians, hospital C-Suite, service line leadership, purchasing, prior authorization, and billing/coding staff.
- Provide approved health economic education to the commercial sales organization.
- Capture and record customer interactions to track touchpoint activity across multiple engagements.
- Collaborate on corporate-initiated reimbursement strategies as needed.
- Deliver market dynamics on customer insights, trends, and challenges learned from the field in cross departmental meetings and conference calls.
- Manage travel and entertainment within the confines of the allowable budget.
- Comply with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments.
- Maintain positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.
- Participates in regular, internal business unit meetings to influence and provide recommendations.
- Adhere to corporate compliance programs and successfully participate in training and continuing education programs.
- Ensures deliverables are accomplished on time and within budget.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
- 9 years’ work experience or 6 years with an advanced degree
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in health studies, business or economics or an advanced degree
- 5 – 8 years of medical device or pharmaceutical field reimbursement, health policy, or health economic experience.
- Demonstrated ability to develop innovative solutions, understand how to do the research to uncover missing information, and enjoy the challenge of being a solution architect.
- Extensive presentation experience in front of a diverse audience, including C-suite executives, healthcare providers, and the commercial organization.
- Ability to work within a team and as an individual contributor in a fast-paced, changing environment.
- Strong verbal and written communication with the ability to communicate effectively at multiple levels of the organization.
- Advanced personal computer skills, including experience with Microsoft Office.
- Strong organizational and follow-up skills with high attention to detail.
- Ability to travel 30%
Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com
Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.
JOB FAMILY:
Market Access
DIVISION:
MD Medical Devices
LOCATION:
United States of America : Remote
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:
WORK SHIFT:
Standard
TRAVEL:
Yes, 25 % of the Time
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
Not Applicable
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:
Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Continuous walking for prolonged periods (more than 2 hours at a time in an 8 hour day), Driving a personal auto or company car or truck, or a powered piece of material handling equipment
