Associate Director, Pricing Strategy - VAP, EPG

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Job Function:

Market Access

Job Sub Function:

Health Economics Market Access

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine (J&J) is recruiting for an Associate Director, Pricing Strategy within its Strategic Customer Group (SCG) on the Value Access & Pricing (VAP) Established Products Group (EPG) team located in Horsham, PA or Titusville, NJ.

Johnson & Johnson provides account management and customer support services to key health care customers, including hospital systems and group purchasing organizations, leading health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, and government health care institutions. The company also provides contract management, logistics, and supply chain functions for the major Johnson & Johnson franchises.

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

The Associate Director of EPG Pricing Strategy is:

• Building, implementing, and executing the optimal pricing strategy for Janssen’s EPG portfolio, driving value across key payer segments, and evaluating value based agreements.

• This individual will interact with Senior Brand Leaders, SCG Leadership Team, Legal, HCC and Finance in the establishment and implementation of pricing and contracting strategies. This position reports to the Director of VAP Established Products Group (EPG).

• Serves as a brand pricing lead by synthesizing customer, industry and competitive insights and intelligence to guide in developing channel and franchise pricing strategies.

• Ensures awareness of price as key component of the marketing mix at the gross and net level. Effectively work with all key stakeholders to drive alignment on the pricing strategies and how they impact business.

• Leads CPC (Contracting and Pricing Committee) discussions regarding pricing strategies with Legal, Finance, Contracting Administration, HCS, HCC (Healthcare Compliance) and other key stakeholders.

• Proactively conducts competitive analysis and evaluate the changing marketplace and proactively make recommendations on pricing strategies.

• Acts as a pricing strategy lead on customer contract negotiations and discussions.

• Develop Innovative Pricing Strategies and programs to insure patient and provider access at a reasonable Gross to Net.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Marketing or other critical thinking major required; advanced business degree (MBA) or CPA preferred.

• 5 or more years of work experience in the pharmaceutical/healthcare industry required.

• Solid knowledge of US payers, GPOs and US reimbursement and access landscape, price regulations/reporting as well as state reporting requirements.

• Emphasis in finance, market access, marketing or strategic/product functions preferred.

• Experience in finance, pricing or contracting or account management preferred.

• Strong understanding of reimbursement/payment models and customer structures preferred.