About the Role
The Director, National Access will ensure broad patient access to products by removing payer-related barriers and balancing corporate revenue objectives. This role involves managing relationships with national and regional payers, Medicaid buying groups, and PBMs to secure favorable formulary access.
Responsibilities
- Create strategies and tactics for national and regional payers, key health systems, and integrated delivery networks.
- Lead engagement and pull-through with national payer accounts and PBMs, including formulary positioning, coverage negotiations, and contract strategy.
- Develop tactical plans and execution strategies in coordination with Market Access leadership, Medical, Marketing, and Sales teams.
- Analyze and understand the oncology market access environment.
- Serve as a subject matter expert on market access, including evolving pricing, payment, and reimbursement models.
- Act as a strategic leader within the commercial organization regarding reimbursement.
- Collaborate and communicate with internal customers on account strategy, plans, and execution.
- Perform market, financial, competitive, and industry analyses.
- Solicit, embrace, and act on feedback from internal and external stakeholders.
- Ensure integrity and compliance with regulations and corporate policies.
- Ensure patients have the necessary information and resources to support financial coverage needs.
- Attend and participate in meetings and conferences as needed.
Requirements
- Prior experience presenting HEOR and budget impact modeling to payers is required.
- Prior launch experience with oncology and/or small patient/rare disease population products preferred.
- Established relationships with national commercial payers, PBMs, and government accounts with demonstrated ability to influence coverage decisions.
- Experience with both national and/or regional commercial payer plans.
- Ability to establish and enhance customer relations with industry influencers, varied and complex payer stakeholders, and key strategic partners.
- Experience developing and executing comprehensive business development plans, budgets, and programs.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
- Ability to deliver reports, plans, and presentations to multiple audience types in an impactful and enthusiastic manner.
- Strong knowledge of trends, issues, and policies impacting oncology sites of care.
- Understanding of emerging oncology payer reimbursement models.
- Prior experience negotiating PBM contracts preferred.
- Strong communication and negotiation skills.
- Strong orientation to customer service and teamwork.
Skills
- HEOR
- Budget impact modeling
- Market access
- Payer engagement
- Formulary positioning
- Coverage negotiations
- Contract strategy
- Oncology market analysis
- Reimbursement models
- Business development
- Financial analysis
- Competitive analysis
- Communication
- Negotiation
- Customer service
- Teamwork
Location
- US remote
Work Type
- Remote
- Work from home
Experience Level
- Minimum of 10 years of Market Access experience in specialty products.
- At least 5 years experience in a pharmaceutical, biotechnology, oncology, or related healthcare environment preferred.
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree required.
