Associate Directors, Access & Value Payer Marketing

 

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Job Title: Associate Directors, Access & Value Payer Marketing

 

Employer: EMD Serono, Inc., 400 Summit Drive, Burlington, MA 01803

 

Job Location:  EMD Serono, Inc., 400 Summit Drive, Burlington, MA 01803

 

Telecommuting is an option. 20% domestic travel required per year.

 

Job Responsibilities:

 

Specific duties include the following:

 

1. Own the development and implementation of the annual US Market Access pull-through strategy, in line with brand objectives for a potential future launch within Fertility/Oncology and existing brands in market;
2. Optimally manage budgets and project timelines. Partner with therapeutic area marketing leads to develop and implement pull-through access strategies with playbooks for channel, segment, reimbursement managers, and key account management;
3. Support in-depth strategic analyses of the managed markets landscape for assigned products and provide strategic recommendations to Senior Management based on insights. This includes execution of EMD Serono’s customer engagement strategy and contract strategies with a broad range of access influencers;
4. Lead agency and vendor relationships to develop promotional programs and tactics aligned with the payer plan (i.e.: syndicated market research initiatives, etc.);
5. Support business development activities and new product planning through landscape analysis, understanding of access drivers and competitors, and evaluation of likely payer response to varying scenarios;
6. Partner with Directors of Patient Services and HUB to further connect contract offerings with facilitation of enhanced patient access and process efficiencies;
7. Work with access influencers to ensure continued profitable access with minimal restrictions for EMD Serono’s pharmaceutical products;
8. Supervise the changing payer landscape mergers and acquisitions (industry consolidation), benefit design trends, strategic account trends, medical loss ratios, quality metrics, and the evolution of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and report on impact of market trends and events to EMD Serono customer relationships, programs, and brands;
9. Provide proactive market feedback to Market Access and cross-functional teams on business trends, competitive updates, and industry issues and opportunities; and
10. Lead and influence cross-functional teams and drive alignment across key stakeholders, including but not limited to, brand teams, finance, field-based teams, Global, Corporate Communications, Commercial Operations, Senior Leadership, legal and compliance.

 

Telecommuting is an option.

Job Requirements:

 

Employer requires a bachelor’s degree in any field and at least four (4) years of work experience in any occupation in a commercial biopharmaceutical field that includes experience leading cross-functional teams across the managed markets organization (brand teams, finance, legal and regulatory).

 

Employer also requires the following:

 

1. Demonstrated understanding of payer market dynamics and how managed care organizations make decisions across private and public channels gained through two (2) years of work experience in payer marketing;
2. Demonstrated ability analyzing current and future landscape and specific contract outcomes at the micro and macro level to make investment recommendations that impact company brands gained through working on at least five (5) strategic planning initiatives;
3. Demonstrated experience working in the market access function within payer marketing gained through two (2) years of work experience; and
4. Demonstrated ability translating access stakeholder strategies into measurable tact