Associate Director, US Market Access Therapeutic Area Strategy Immunology/Neuroscience (2 positions)

Job Description Summary

Location: East Hanover, NJ

The Associate Director, US Market Access Therapeutic Area Strategy is responsible for supporting the optimization of the market access strategy for launch and inline brands through the delivery of the tactics designed to achieve the market access strategy. This role will work across the US market access organization to ensure that different subgroups are involved and/or informed in tactical execution as appropriate (i.e., Strategic Pricing & Contracting, Commercial Access Integration, Patient & Support Services, Finance). Additionally, this individual will ensure that market access tactics are executed against across the broader affected organization (i.e., the Product, Integrated Marketing, and Customer Engagement Organizations). The overarching objective is to ensure that each of our products is positioned for optimal payer coverage, affordability for appropriate patients, and durable value for Novartis over time and as the product matures and/or extends into new indications.

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
• Support TA Director/Executive Director as point of contact for US product teams
• Assisting in the development of annual Market Access product-specific tactical plans and partnering with brand and other Market Access teams to ensure that annual budgets are secured
• Engaging with the Integrated Marketing and Customer Engagement Organizations to ensure that we are working efficiently and market access strategies are seamlessly executed upon across the organization
• Developing market access promotional materials for Market Access, Marketing, Patient Sup-port, and Customer Engagement organizations
• Supporting annual forecast activities
• Supporting the socialization of US market access product strategies as appropriate with US Product Leads
• Supporting development of critical market research including development of qualitative and quantitative areas of study, and determining fundamental go-to-market principles to achieve optimal product commercialization
• Managing vendor RFP process and ensuring contracting compliance
• Responsible for managing multiple budgets and deliverables, including organizing interim project read-outs to ensure cross-functional alignment and ensuring deliverables do not exceed allocated budget
• Working closely and engaging with Legal, Compliance, Brand and Marketing teams to ensure tactics are aligned and implemented in an expeditious and compliant manner
• Mastering the NVS Material Approval Process, including FUSE platform, compliance with pharma/FDA marketing policies, and vendor payment systems
• Works within ethical and compliance policies, ensures a diverse and inclusive environment free from all forms of discrimination and harassment, adheres with Company policies, state and federal laws and regulations and ensures those around them do the same.

This position will be located in East Hanover, New Jersey site and will not have the ability to be located remotely. This position will require travel as defined by the business (domestic and/ or international)

 

Job Description

What you’ll bring to the role:

Education: Bachelor’s degree required; MBA, Healthy Policy or equivalent preferred

Experience:

•Minimum of 5 years of pharmaceutical experience in Marketing/Sales, Market Access or Managed Care Finance

•Awareness and understanding, and experience with US healthcare dynamics and the drivers of pharmaceutical value

•Success in the areas of commercial pharmaceuticals and a track record of execution and results

•Ability to recognize complex relationships and market dynamics and to synthesize simplified, direct and effective communications

•Strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills combined with an ability to success-fully collaborate across a matrix organization

•Ability to consistently meet deadlines and manage multiple projects with potential interdependent findings and deadlines

•Engage a diverse group of people across product, marketing and customer experience

•Ability to adapt to changes within the internal and external environment

•Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly PowerPoint and Excel

Why consider Novartis?

Why Novartis: Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture 

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