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About the Role
Axsome Therapeutics is seeking an Associate Director/Director, Payer Marketing to drive Payer Marketing efforts and ensure effective representation of Axsome’s products to payer decision makers. This role is critical for ensuring patients have affordable access to the Company’s innovative medicines and will collaborate cross-functionally to develop and articulate payer marketing strategy.
Responsibilities
- Support the payer marketing team in the development of access and pricing strategies, focusing on interpreting and quantifying the impact of legislation, political actions, and PBM/payer initiatives.
- Monitor and interpret federal and state healthcare policy developments to assess implications for payer access and affordability strategy.
- Translate complex policy and regulatory changes into clear strategic guidance for payer marketing, brand teams, and senior leadership.
- Partner with market access, legal, compliance, and government affairs teams to ensure payer strategies and materials align with policy requirements.
- Evaluate how policy changes affect formulary positioning, access barriers, and payer decision-making.
- Integrate policy-driven insights into payer value propositions and account-specific strategies across Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial segments.
- Support scenario planning and forecasting by assessing downstream impacts of policy shifts on access timelines, contracting leverage, and payer behavior.
- Develop internal education and training resources to improve cross-functional understanding of policy-driven access dynamics.
- Engage in strategic planning for launches, LOE planning, and lifecycle management by incorporating policy uncertainty and payer response models.
- Partner with the HEOR team to deliver value messaging to payers substantiated by real-world evidence generation/synthesis.
- Manage multiple projects requiring cross-functional buy-in across different indications and therapeutic areas.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in science, Business, Accounting, Finance, Mathematics, or related field required.
- Ability to work onsite Monday, Tuesday & Thursday.
- Previous product launch experience, preferably in the CNS space.
- Familiarity with current legal and regulatory landscape pertinent to the industry.
Skills
- Deep understanding of the U.S. healthcare market: reimbursement, payment models including legal and compliance requirements.
- Excellent problem-solving abilities and demonstrated critical thinking.
- Strong understanding of the payer landscape and how payer decision making impacts providers and their patients.
- Strong intellectual curiosity and the desire to learn how clinical trial data and RWE factors into payer decision making.
- Proven project management experience.
- Ability to influence internal and external stakeholders.
- Excellent oral, written and presentation skills with ability to use number and data to tell a story, influence decision makers, and explain complex concepts clearly to a variety of audiences.
Location
- New York City
Work Type
- On-site (at least three days per week)
Experience Level
- 8-12 years of Pharmaceutical Industry related experience
- 6-10 years of Payer Marketing, Government Affairs, or PBM/Health plan experience or other Market Access related activities
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- MBA preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $175,000 - $225,000
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Significant equity
- Generous benefits package
About the Company
- Axsome Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company leading a new era in the treatment of central nervous system (CNS) conditions.
- We deliver scientific breakthroughs by identifying critical gaps in care and develop differentiated products with a focus on novel mechanisms of action that enable meaningful advancements in patient outcomes.
- Our industry-leading neuroscience portfolio includes FDA-approved treatments for major depressive disorder, agitation associated with dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease, excessive daytime sleepiness associated with narcolepsy and obstructive sleep apnea, and migraine, as well as multiple novel product candidates addressing a broad range of serious neurological and psychiatric conditions that impact over 150 million people in the United States.
- Together, we are on a mission to solve some of the brain’s biggest problems so patients and their loved ones can flourish.
Equal Opportunity
- Axsome is committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.
- We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.