Director, Market Access Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +2 more states.

📋 Description

• Evaluate the potential for early market access, pricing, and strategies for pipeline indications and assets, including sequencing of indications, Target Product Profile (TPP), and Target Product Labeling (TPL).

• Collaborate with Indication Development Teams to enhance trial designs based on payer requirements and feedback from regional Access.

• Coordinate Early Scientific Advice from key Health Technology Assessment (HTA) agencies and perform gap analyses with external consultants.

• Ensure alignment of Access and Commercial positioning, pricing, and strategies with Indication Commercial Teams.

• Analyze unmet needs, payer value propositions, the pricing and reimbursement (P&R) landscape, and overall product outlook.

• Contribute to global pricing strategy and policy formulation.

• Validate payer value messages, pricing expectations, and value propositions through Advisory Boards and payer/HTA research.

• Create core value dossiers and objection handling documents.

• Formulate and assess global and regional access strategies, including considerations for early access, launch implications, risk mitigation, and scenario planning.

• Establish and validate contracting options and go-to-market assumptions.

• Collaborate with Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) and Regional Access teams to enhance evidence generation plans and identify epidemiological trends and unmet medical needs.

• Provide insights for health economic and outcomes analyses necessary for access, including Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA), Budget Impact Analysis (BIA), and burden-of-disease assessments.

• Conduct launch-readiness workshops involving regional and local Market Access teams and other functions.

• Lead strategic access initiatives within the Myasthenia Gravis therapeutic area, focusing on indication expansion, global launches, next-generation FcRn products, and lifecycle management.

• Work in partnership with global, regional, and local country teams as well as cross-functional stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of pertinent industry experience in biotech or pharmaceutical sectors.

• A minimum of 5 years of Market Access and Pricing experience related to specialty drug launches in the US or Europe.

• Advanced graduate-level education in natural sciences, medicine, business, engineering, or finance is required.

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Health Economics, Life Sciences, or a related discipline.

• Proven experience in understanding payer needs, decision-making processes, strategies, reimbursement stakeholders, and influencers in the US and/or significant EU markets.

• Demonstrated experience in developing global and regional pricing and market access strategies and conducting research.

• Familiarity with working alongside clinical development teams.

• Experience with launch and commercialization efforts for orphan and rare disease therapies.

• Proven ability to manage external agency partnerships and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

• Strong leadership abilities and team management skills.

• Possess strategic, critical-thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.

• Ability to navigate through ambiguity and complexity while clearly articulating intricate problems and solutions.

• Capability to comprehend highly technical concepts and operate in a scientific environment.

• Excellent communication skills in a multicultural and multilingual global setting.

• Fluency in English is mandatory.

• Willingness to travel regularly.

🏝️ Benefits

• Participation in a short-term incentives program.

• Access to a long-term incentives program.

• Equal opportunity in an inclusive work environment.

• Opportunities for personal and professional growth.

• Engage in meaningful work.

• Experience unique, once-in-a-career opportunities.