Senior Analyst, Global Clinical Budget Development

Summary

Join AbbVie as a Senior Clinical Budget Analyst and become a subject matter expert in clinical trial budget development. You will prepare global clinical site study budgets, develop and maintain budget documents, and lead budget strategy meetings with various stakeholders. Responsibilities include ensuring budgets are compliant, aligned with projections, and reflect Fair Market Value. You will also communicate budget status, mitigate issues impacting timelines, and participate in process improvement initiatives. This role requires a BA/BS degree (science degree preferred), clinical research and budget experience, expertise with benchmarking tools and CPT codes, and strong negotiation and communication skills.

Requirements

• BA/BS is required; Science degree is preferred but not required
• Minimum of 4 years of related job experience with 2 years of clinical budget experience
• Must have demonstrated ability in negotiation skills, project management skills and effective communication and relationship management abilities
• Must have extreme attention to detail along with an understanding of the quality/compliance environment

Responsibilities

• Prepares global clinical site study budgets to support efficient and compliant budget negotiations using industry cost benchmarking tools, while channeling the focus on accelerating AbbVie’s Portfolio
• Develop, maintain, and train stakeholders on the use of the global budget development documents, including the Exhibit A and other Fair Market Tool Assessments. Act as the first line of contact to stakeholder to provide strategic insight, when required, into budget building process with difficult protocol situations (i.e., complex clinical protocols, difficult therapeutic areas with high priority studies)
• Lead internal Budget Strategy Meetings and Budget Review Meetings with Clinical Development Operations (CDO), Study Project Manager (SPM), Study Management Associate (SMA), Project Lead (PL), Therapeutic Area Medical Director’s (TAMD), Legal, Outside United States (OUS), US Contract Managers (CM), Payments, to ensure final complete budget is delivered to Contract Managers
• Actively and effectively communicates status of global budget build with key internal and external stakeholders in a timely manner. Communicates with applicable stakeholders to mitigate any issues that could impact project timelines or other aspects for study start-up
• Develops the most current and transparent Global and Country specific budget corresponds with industry standards and local requirements
• Serve as a subject matter expert in medical/CPT code competencies across multiple therapeutic/functional areas
• Applies United States Medicare Coverage Analysis (MCA) guidelines for applicable therapeutic areas and have a solid understanding of MCA requirements. Able to analyze
• Ability to review and analyze complex protocol amendments and decide budget impact and will work with CDO, OUS, CM to be agile in determining the impact of the protocol and if the changes constitute in a budget amendment
• Oversee any requests from our stakeholders that may impact the global and country specific budget, using internal request systems
• Identifies and participates in ongoing process improvement initiatives when appropriate (i.e., new templates/processes etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

• Clinical research experience, clinical budget experience in a scientific and financial setting is highly desirable
• Expertise with clinical cost benchmarking tools and/or ICD-9/10 and CPT codes is highly preferred; expertise with Excel is required
• Experience in Outside United States Experience clinical budget development is highly desirable
• Customer support focused expertise is highly desirable

Benefits

• Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick)
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Short-term incentive programs