Senior Manager - Pipeline

About the Department                                                                                                                                                   

Novo Nordisk’s Market Access and Public Affairs team engages diverse stakeholders across political and healthcare landscapes to forge solutions that drive patient access to innovative products.  We strive to deliver the best possible outcomes for patients with diabetes, obesity, growth hormone deficiencies and rare bleeding disorders through mutual wins for both Novo Nordisk and our Market Access customers.  Our passion for helping people live better lives and our award-winning product pipeline can only be as effective as our ability to provide life-changing information to healthcare providers, key stakeholders and policymakers. Our Market Access and Public Affairs professionals ensure that the latest therapies and products reach the people who need them most, by creating an environment where innovation and chronic disease management drive optimal health outcomes. Are you ready to realize your potential?

 

This role is based in Plainsboro, NJ.

 

The Position

Generates insights and provides US market access input to Global and US stakeholders to inform clinical trial programs, guide evidence generation development, payer value stories, and develops market access (pricing, contracting, and value communication) strategies for Novo Nordisk pipeline assets and provides input into Business Development opportunities and forecasts. Monitors evolving US market access environment to identify payer landscape trends and policy changes including but not limited to changes in healthcare policy, government healthcare programs, managed care, payment models, comparative effectiveness, customer engagement, and coverage and reimbursement. Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to leverage and implement knowledge of reimbursement, managed care and healthcare policy to inform pricing strategies and processes for pipeline products to ensure attainment of market access business objectives.

 

Relationships

Reports to the Sr. Director, Market Access Pipeline Strategy.  Interacts internally with team representatives from Public Affairs, PCOR, Finance, Brands, Medical Affairs, HEOR, Future Business Strategy, Commercial, Field Sales, Account Management, Analytics, Legal, Regulatory, Investor Relations, Value Communication and Contracting Strategy colleagues across all franchises, and all others, including global colleagues/counterparts, on a routine basis.  Ensures strong collaboration across functions to optimize profitable access and provides timely communication of insights to all relevant partners. Close relationships with Global Market Access and Pricing, the Global Project Teams (GPT) and Core Commercialization Teams (CCT) for launch brands may be required; as well as global Business Development teams.  External relationships include interactions with key managed markets payers (potentially including but not limited to payers, PBMs, employers, and organized customer groups), associations, key opinion leaders (KOLs), government executives, vendors and consultants.

 

Essential Functions

• Support key pipeline market and pricing research strategy initiatives in the US and in collaboration with Global Market Access and Pricing teams to support development of pricing and net price assumptions for aligned assets and provide input and insights into forecasting and valuation discussions
• Support the development of the payer value story, supported by credible clinical, health economics and quality of life messages in order to justify brand value; interfaces with HEOR team to guide evidence generation efforts that support payer value story development
• Proactively identify and execute on projects to answer key business questions and share learnings/insights with appropriate stakeholders. Provide project management oversight (i.e., leads RFP process, vendor selection, participates in core team meetings, etc) ensuring projects are completed on time and on budget
• Develop and execute value communications initiatives focused primarily on pipeline products in order to optimize patient access and reimbursement
• Proactively provides insights that support Product Development Plan (PDP) updates and contributes input into Evidence Generation (EGP) for pipeline assets; ensuring that US payer evidence generation updates are incorporated into TPPs/TAPs
• Deliver internal and/or external trainings and presentations on payer value communication and market access. Collaborates with Training to develop POA session format and content
• Support assessment of investments in payer contracts and patient copay programs
• Assist in evaluations of business development opportunities as needed
• Evaluate innovative contracting approaches