Associate Director, US Market Access and Global PSP

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Position Summary:  

Reporting to the Senior Director, US and Above Market Medical and Market Access C&E Lead, this role partners with senior leaders across Legal, Commercial, Medical, R&D, Global Drug Development, Regulatory, IT, Audit, Finance and HR to build and integrate one global compliance program into the US Market Access Organization.  This role is also responsible for developing, launching, and maintaining a monitoring and education framework to mitigate healthcare compliance risk arising from patient support programs worldwide.  In this role, you will combine your knowledge about risk mitigation strategies, such as education and monitoring, with data analytics about executional risk to help the business make well-informed, risk-based decisions.  You will help operationalize those decisions by crafting simple, clear, principle-based policies.  You will educate the business about those policies – and why they exist – leveraging adult-learning techniques that aid retention.  And you will use a combination of live monitoring, transactional monitoring, and data analytics to monitor the business’s adherence to those policies, helping the business remediate deviations from policies by identifying and addressing the root causes of those deviations.  The ideal candidate will be able to execute these tasks with a mindset that believes business functions and Compliance and Ethics are equally accountable for both company success and ethical behavior and will be recognized internally and externally as an expert in mitigating healthcare compliance risk through providing advice, drafting policy, providing education and monitoring execution of high-risk activities. 

Responsibilities Include:  

• Conduct risk assessments specific to market access activities, including patient support programs, utilizing a combination of data analytics, external and internal benchmarking, and review of enforcement trends, to proactively identify the most pressing areas of risk. 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams involved in market access activities, including patient support programs, to ensure compliance requirements are integrated into program design, implementation, and monitoring. 

• Foster trusting relationship with business leaders that enable you to learn of – and advise on – executional risk associated with new initiatives and counsel business leaders about educational initiatives, new policies or monitoring capabilities that can help mitigate risk associated with their decisions. 

• Under the direction of the Senior Director, US and Above Market Medical and Market Access C&E Lead, draft simple, easy to understand policies specific to market access activities, including patient