About the Role
As a Field Access Manager on the Plasma-Immunology Patient Access team, you will play a proactive role in supporting patients by enhancing access to therapies across Takeda’s portfolio. You will act as a trusted partner to healthcare providers and institutions, addressing reimbursement and access barriers and delivering value through strategic account management and patient-focused support.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a key resource to navigate reimbursement and access challenges for patients and providers, ensuring timely and effective access to Takeda’s therapies.
- Deliver tailored, field-based education on reimbursement processes to key accounts, including provider group practices, hospitals, academic institutions, specialty pharmacies, and other healthcare stakeholders.
- Anticipate and address access challenges to support patient care.
- Build and maintain collaborative relationships with healthcare organizations, identifying and resolving reimbursement and access issues to ensure seamless therapy initiation and continuation.
- Provide education and support to internal teams, equipping colleagues with the knowledge and tools to address complex reimbursement and access scenarios effectively.
- Stay informed on healthcare policies, reimbursement trends, and regulatory requirements to proactively address challenges and opportunities in the marketplace.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree.
- 5+ years of field-based experience in account management, sales or medical affairs.
- Strong knowledge of the reimbursement landscape and the practice management environment.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and execute account-based strategies to drive access outcomes.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Expertise in account management, relationship development, and issue resolution.
- Outstanding interpersonal skills and flexibility to meet evolving customer and organizational needs.
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in reimbursement roles within the pharmaceutical, biotech, or rare disease industry.
- MBA or advanced degree.
- Experience in healthcare policy, reimbursement, market access, or related fields.
- Familiarity with buy-and-bill and pharmacy models.
- Experience with specialty or high-cost therapies in chronic or acute care settings.
- Role is field-based, requiring up to 75% travel.
- The incumbent must live in territory.
- Ability to drive and/or fly to meetings is required.
- Must have clean and valid driver’s license.
Skills
- Account management
- Sales
- Medical affairs
- Reimbursement landscape knowledge
- Practice management environment knowledge
- Account-based strategy development and execution
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Relationship development
- Issue resolution
- Interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Healthcare policy
- Reimbursement trends
- Regulatory requirements
- Buy-and-bill models
- Pharmacy models
- Specialty therapies
- High-cost therapies
Location
- New York - Virtual
Work Type
- Employee
- Regular
- Full time
- Field-based
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s Degree
- MBA or advanced degree
Salary/Compensations
- $152,000.00 - $209,000.00
Benefits
- Short-term and/or long-term incentives
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) plan and company match
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Paid volunteer time off
- Company holidays
- Well-being benefits
- Up to 80 hours of sick time per calendar year
- Up to 120 hours of paid vacation
About the Company
- Takeda is transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs.
- Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.
- Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do.
- We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.
Equal Opportunity
- Takeda is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, status as a Vietnam era veteran, special disabled veteran, or other protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws, and any other characteristic protected by law.
