Field Reimbursement Manager/Field Access Specialist - UCB Team - Bayou Territory (Memphis/Birmingham/Little Rock)

Company Description

At EVERSANA, we are proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work across the globe. We’re fueled by our vision to create a healthier world. How? Our global team of more than 7,000 employees is committed to creating and delivering next-generation commercialization services to the life sciences industry. We are grounded in our cultural beliefs and serve more than 650 clients ranging from innovative biotech start-ups to established pharmaceutical companies. Our products, services and solutions help bring innovative therapies to market and support the patients who depend on them. Our jobs, skills and talents are unique, but together we make an impact every day. Join us! 

Across our growing organization, we embrace diversity in backgrounds and experiences. Improving patient lives around the world is a priority, and we need people from all backgrounds and swaths of life to help build the future of the healthcare and the life sciences industry. We believe our people make all the difference in cultivating an inclusive culture that embraces our cultural beliefs.  We are deliberate and self-reflective about the kind of team and culture we are building. We look for team members that are not only strong in their own aptitudes but also who care deeply about EVERSANA, our people, clients and most importantly, the patients we serve.   We are EVERSANA.  

Job Description

This position is part of our EVERSANA/UCB "Field Access Specialist Team".  

The Immunology Field Reimbursement Manager (FRM)/Field Access Specialist is a key field-based member of the U.S. iPVU’s Patient Strategy and Solutions Team. The FRM will act as the main point of contact at designated accounts providing account management support to Biologic Coordinators and Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) on behalf of Patients prescribed a UCB Dermatology Biologic for approved indications (including in-line and launch brands). As a part of this strategy, the FRM will provide on-going education to accounts around the UCB Immunology Patient Services programs, payer landscape and pharmacy channel access. The FRM will help coordinate pull-through efforts for patients who have been prescribed a UCB Dermatology Biologic, irrespective of channel (HUB, specialty pharmacy, etc.), provided proper HIPAA consent has been secured from the patient. The FRM will be expected to be the primary face of the Patient Services platforms within designated HCP. The FRM is also responsible for partnering with internal and external stakeholders to optimize access to UCB products for patients and health care providers (HCP). 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Expand long term stakeholder partnerships and build advocacy within HCP offices and equip them, through education, to navigate the access and payer approval process, identify access barriers that the HCP must act on to overcome, and highlight HCP actions that support patient access to therapy.
• Offer educational resources to support the entire patient journey by optimizing processes for prior authorizations/appeals/specialty pharmacy and addressing access issues. 
• Coordinate utilization of UCB’s patient service platform to seamlessly support the customer and patient when office chooses the HUB or SP as their ideal path to approved therapy.
• Coordinate annual pharmacy reauthorizations at designated accounts to ensure timely reauthorization and continuation of therapy is maintained.
• Work cross functionally and collaboratively with partners in Sales, Market Access, Patient Services, Strategic Accounts and more to act as a process and payer expert. The FRM will help identify and address time sensitive market development and implementation efforts to remove all access barriers to UCB products for appropriate patients, while optimizing adherence.
• Build and execute a strategic business plan for to meet the needs of top accounts and ensure successful implementation of market access initiatives.
• Obtain and maintain knowledge and understanding of payer landscape, including Specialty Pharmacy and utilization management criteria, on a national, regional and local level so that you can act as a process and payer expert.
• Continuously strive to understand the alignment of Payer/PBM/SP and how national/regional pharmacy drug formularies impact market access in their designated geography.
• Assist in providing appropriate field insights to ensure support of all access and patient/payer support programs and resources offered by UCB’s Patient Support Programs.
• Anticipate, navigate and address individual account and patient access issues that arise by partnering with all appropriate stakeholders.
• The successful FRM must be capable of thriving in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and should

Qualifications

Qualifications: