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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 www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

The Associate General Counsel, U.S. Market Access and Pricing is responsible for developing legal strategy and support for the U.S. Market Access organization, with a substantial focus on government price reporting. The Associate General Counsel will report to the Senior Associate General Counsel, U.S. Market Access and Pricing.

This position will provide counsel on a broad range of legal, compliance, and regulatory issues, with a primary focus on federal price reporting, as well as the Anti-Kickback Statute, the False Claims Act, FDA regulations, and competition law. The position plays a critical role in ensuring that patients are able to access AbbVie’s life-saving portfolio of medicines.

Responsibilities

• Serving as lead counsel for our Government Price Reporting function concerning legal, regulatory, and compliance issues associated with federal government price reporting requirements across the AbbVie portfolio of medicines.
• Serving as counsel for our U.S. Market Access and Pricing functions advising on Anti-Kickback Statute, False Claims Act, and competition law matters.
• Providing strategic legal counsel to senior management on product pricing and access matters, with significant interaction with senior leaders in both the Commercial and Legal organizations.
• Preparing, reviewing, and negotiating complex government, payor, and trade agreements.
• Developing deep knowledge of AbbVie’s business and supported client areas, and keeping abreast of changes in law that affect supported client areas.

Qualifications

• Law degree from an ABA accredited law school and in good standing with the state bar of the jurisdiction in which your office will be located (or ability to gain licensure in the state in which your office will be located)
• 8+ years of relevant legal experience, with previous pharmaceutical experience required.
• Proficiency in government price reporting requirements, including AMP, Best Price, ASP, and 340B, as well as federal health care program contracting (e.g Medicaid, VA, etc.).
• Developing proficiency in commercial payor and trade contracting.
• Comfort taking on high-visibility, high-impact projects with strong communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to independently identify practical legal solutions to complex and dynamic challenges, and to work effectively in high-pressure, matrixed environments.

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 short-term incentive programs.
• 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.

AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.