Senior Manager, HEOR RWE Analytics

Company Description

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 - immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

Purpose:

Role is responsible for designing and executing analytical components of plans for research studies that examine the real-world value of pharmaceutical assets or address strategic questions in the disease areas of interest to AbbVie. Position applies methodological and analytical expertise to conduct the analysis of V&E research studies. This involves the application of real-world evidence study design, statistical theories, and technical programming skills to analyze clinical, survey, claims, and electronic medical record databases. he/she is expected to act as point of contact for the assigned therapeutic area (TA) on RWE analytics needs, proactively mitigating, resolving and triaging issues and reducing the operational complexity needed.

Responsibilities:

1. He/she is expected to be the point of contact for the assigned therapeutic area (TA) or product/indications to manage analytics activities on multiple assigned projects/studies focusing on RWE analyses from large databases (e.g., medical claims, EMR/EHR, registries, etc.) across various therapeutic areas
2. Responsibility for analytical component of reports describing studies, outcomes and methods used and provide specifications to the HEOR researchers
3. Identifying appropriate internal and external data resources and external expertise to execute strategies and research activities led by HEOR
4. Supporting clinical trial PRO endpoint strategies by executing statistical analysis plans and providing consultation to design as needed; Apply knowledge of analytical programming to develop and validate statistical tables, data listings, figures, and derived datasets for clinical trials data according to SAP and other specifications
5. Presenting results of studies and contribute to the writing and publishing of scientific presentations
6. Responsibility and accountability for meeting timelines in complex matrix structure. This will require developing and maintain effective cross-functional working relationships to assure effective teamwork and problem solving within the analytics team
7. Interactions with HEOR Strategy scientists and other relevant stakeholders regarding studies design and execution and with other members of the RWE analytics team or other external CRO's to perform QC activities on research studies

Qualifications:

1. Master's degree in Statistics or related discipline required, PhD in statistics or closely related discipline (e.g., Health Economics and Outcomes research, Epidemiology, health services research etc.) preferred
2. Minimum of 3 years' working experience with Master's, 2 years with PhD (can include fellowship experience)
3. Previous experience in designing and conducting research and disseminating the results in the areas of health economics, health outcomes, disease management, and/or population health preferred
4. Minimum of 3 years' experience in SAS, SAS Macro SQL programming and experience in observational study analysis (claims, survey, clinical and EMR analyses); Experience with "R" or other similar Programming (e.g. python) for real world evidence analytics
5. Ability to contribute to study design and development of study protocols
6. Ability to incorporate production code macros in studies required, ability to execute programming assignment and problem solve issues independently, and ability to present complex research and data clearly to stakeholders
7. Experience in RWE generation in pharmaceutical industry or healthcare consulting companies highly preferred
8. Experience in clinical trial PRO (Patient-reported outcome) analysis is highly preferred
9. Experience and/or training in the application of advanced scientific and analytical methods
10. Ability to perform urgent analyses that are needed with short turnaround time and interact with internal and external collaborative partners on joint projects

Qualifications

1. Master's degree in Statistics or related discipline required, PhD in statistics or closely related discipline (e.g., Health Economics and Outcomes research, Epidemiology, health services research etc.) preferred
2. Minimum of 3 years' working experience with Master's, 2 years with PhD (can include fellowship experience)
3. Previous experience in designing and conducting research and disseminating the results in the areas of health economics, health outcomes, disease management, and/or population health preferred
4. Minimum of 3 years' experience in SAS, SAS Macro SQL programming and experience in observational study analysis (claims, survey, clinical and EMR analyses); Experience with "R" or other similar Programming (e.g. python) for real world evidence analytics
5. Ability to contribute to study design and development of study protocols
6. Ability to incorporate production code macros in studies required, ability to execute programming assignment and problem solve issues independently, and ability to present complex research and data clearly to stakeholders
7. Experience in RWE generation in pharmaceutical industry or healthcare consulting companies highly preferred
8. Experience in clinical trial PRO (Patient-reported outcome) analysis is highly preferred
9. Experience and/or training in the application of advanced scientific and analytical methods
10. Ability to perform urgent analyses that are needed with short turnaround time and interact with internal and external collaborative partners on joint projects

Additional Information

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• 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 short-term incentive programs.
• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs

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