National Access Director – East

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Ensure adherence to all laws, regulations, and policies that govern Pierre Fabre operations.

• Facilitate prompt access to Tab-cel following approval by educating payer customers and financial stakeholders at treatment centers about the product's value proposition.

• Track trends, policy changes, and their implications for the US Value and Access Team, taking ownership of this expertise.

• Seek synergies and partnerships to meet the goals of both Pierre Fabre and customers through effective planning and engagement with cross-functional teams.

• Enable payer coverage assessments for Tab-cel by exchanging pre-approval information and engaging with national and regional payers in Commercial, Medicare, and VA sectors post-approval.

• Contribute to the overall access strategy by collaborating with Federal Payers and Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS).

• Educate payers on unmet needs and provide resources that support a pathway to coverage.

• Identify payer stakeholders and collaborate with payer colleagues to establish expedited case-review pathways.

• Deliver approved product education and health-economic information to both payer and provider customers.

• Communicate payer coverage details to providers, ensuring financial and reimbursement confidence after approval.

• Educate treatment sites and stakeholders about reimbursement processes, coverage, and coding specifics.

• Coordinate with external specialty distributor counterparts.

• Relay payer coverage criteria to internal field teams and external sites of care.

• Prepare potential treatment centers to be reimbursement-ready both prior to and following anticipated approval.

• Ensure that providers and payers have the necessary information for prior authorizations and single-case-agreement negotiations.

• Educate care sites about patient assistance programs.

• Act as a field expert on market-access issues, partnering with payer-relations teams to resolve coverage and reimbursement challenges.

• Carry out other responsibilities as required by evolving business needs.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree is required; healthcare degrees or credentials are preferred.

• Significant prior working experience with national and regional payers who manage medical and pharmacy benefit policies.

• In-depth knowledge and experience in inpatient and outpatient reimbursement methodologies, along with their impacts on hospital access economics.

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in the biotech/pharmaceutical industry is required.

• At least two years of direct experience concerning coverage and reimbursement dynamics for complex advanced therapies, such as cell therapy, gene therapy, or radio ligand therapy.

• Experience with cell and gene therapy networks and Medical Director teams at payers managing Cell Therapy products is strongly preferred.

• Excellent presentation skills and executive presence are essential.

• Exceptional business acumen and expertise in hospital administration are required.

• Experience in Cell, Gene, and Stem Cell Transplant service lines with established relationships with financial Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) at institutions.

• Capability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment while maintaining cross-functional internal relationships and contributing to site-of-care account planning.

• Familiarity with pharmacy/therapeutics committees and high-impact drug review processes at institutions.

• Willingness to travel domestically up to 30% of the time.

🏝️ Benefits

• Pierre Fabre offers a bonus, commission, or incentive program in addition to base salary.

• Comprehensive medical coverage.

• Dental coverage included.

• Vision coverage provided.

• Various voluntary benefits available.

• 401(k) retirement plan offered.

• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) policy.

• Paid company holidays.

• Paid parental leave provided.

• Employee discounts on products.

• Opportunities for professional development.

• Access to mental health and wellness programs.