Director, Market Access & Reimbursement

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Job Description
 

Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that has pursued and achieved breakthroughs in medicine for more than three decades, with the goal of creating a healthier world for all people. The company is committed to advancing innovative medicines to prevent and treat life-threatening diseases, including HIV, viral hepatitis, and cancer. Gilead operates in more than 35 countries worldwide, with headquarters in Foster City, California.

Reporting to the Executive Director, Market Access Strategy (MAS), the Director will develop and execute strategic and tactical initiatives to support optimal coverage, reimbursement, and patient access for Gilead's HCV and HBV therapies. Secondarily, this role may support other MAS – Virology strategic initiatives. The Virology team is responsible for HCV, HBV, PBC, HIV treatment and HIV prevention (PrEP). Additionally, the MAS department includes a Pricing & Contracting, Virology team.

This role is based at Gilead, Foster City, CA HQ offices.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• As U.S. access lead for HCV & HBV, develop respective access strategies and execute in partnership with Market Access field teams, across all lines of business and payers.

• Serve as HCV/HBV subject matter expert cross-functionally with the Business Unit, Medical, Analytics, and others. 

• Provide expertise to pricing and contracting strategy for Gilead’s HCV/HBV portfolio, providing both an access landscape perspective and informed Business Unit brand-level point of view to inform decision-making, and shape effective storytelling.

• Lead and/or attend key workshops/workstreams to provide HCV/HBV access lens, such as the annual strategic and tactical planning cycles, landscape strategies, and policy and access-related initiatives.

• Develop payer tools, resources, and programs for the Market Access field teams and ensures appropriate training and implementation for the field.

• Integrate critical data elements with Medical Affairs, HEOR, and RWE partners to build payer value propositions and key messages for account team coverage and access initiatives.

• Provide payer-related context and insights such as US market trends, size and dynamics, product clinical profile, product differentiation, and competitive environment to define strategies, positioning, and plans to support broad access to Gilead's branded and unbranded HCV/HBV therapies.

• Partner collaboratively with brand marketing and cross-functional partners to develop a Market Access Brand-aligned POA designed to achieve payer access goals and net revenue aligned to the overall brand and Liver business unit objectives

• Works with commercial operations and market access research & analytics to attain deep customer and market insights to create KPIs aligned to strategic objectives with quarterly updates

• Lead Market Access-specific primary and secondary market research to refine access strategy for all in-line and potential future HCV/HBV products, TBD.

• Lead and manage agency and consultant projects and relationships.

Other Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop understanding of Gilead’s PRC process, including management of materials in Veeva, to shepherd materials through PRC and provide to field teams in a timely manner.

• Manage and maintain budget and accruals process for HCV.

• Ensure compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and regulatory guidelines governing commercial and scientific interactions with payers and other business partners.<