National Access Director – West

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

📋 Description

• Prepare for the successful launch of tabelecleucel (Tab-Cel) in the US, an investigational allogeneic T-cell immunotherapy.

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

• Monitor trends in value and access, policy changes, and their implications for the US Value and Access Team.

• Build collaborative synergies and partnerships through transparent planning and engagement across functions with customers.

• Enable assessment of payer coverage through pre-approval information exchange and post-approval engagement with commercial, Medicare, and VA payers.

• Support the access strategy by engaging with federal payers and Medicare Fee-for-Service.

• Educate payers about urgent unmet needs and provide resources to support coverage pathways.

• Identify payer stakeholders and establish expedited case-review pathways.

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

• Communicate payer coverage details to providers and ensure reimbursement confidence following approval.

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

• Liaise with specialty distributors to support care sites.

• Communicate payer coverage criteria to both internal field teams and external stakeholders at sites of care.

• Prepare treatment centers to be ready for reimbursement both before and after the expected approval.

• Provide information to navigate prior authorizations and negotiate single-case agreements.

• Serve as the field expert on market-access issues and educate care sites about patient assistance programs.

• Collaborate with payer-relations teams at care locations to address coverage and reimbursement challenges.

• Perform additional responsibilities as business needs evolve.

⛳️ Requirements

• A bachelor's degree is required; degrees or credentials in healthcare are preferred.

• Strong, existing working experience with national and regional payers managing medical and pharmacy benefit policies.

• Extensive knowledge and experience in inpatient and outpatient reimbursement methodologies, dynamics, and their impact on hospital access economics.

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in biotech/pharma is required.

• At least two years of direct experience in the coverage and reimbursement dynamics of complex advanced therapies such as cell therapy, gene therapy, or radioligand therapy.

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

• Strong presentation skills and executive presence are essential.

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

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

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, 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%.

🏝️ Benefits

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

• Medical coverage.

• Dental coverage.

• Vision coverage.

• Voluntary benefits.

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Generous paid time off (PTO) policy.

• Paid company holidays.

• Paid parental leave.

• Employee discounts on products.

• Opportunities for professional development.

• Mental health and wellness programs.

• Remote work arrangement available.

• Domestic travel up to 30%.