Executive Director, Market Access, Ophthalmology

Job Description

Our Global Market Access (GMAx) organization is dedicated to delivering breakthrough innovations that extend and improve the lives of individuals worldwide. Our focus is on innovation and launch execution excellence, translating scientific advancements into impactful medicines that help people globally.

This role presents an exciting opportunity to advance patient access and has a significant impact on fulfilling the company's vision and maximizing the value of its Ophthalmology portfolio. Reporting to the Associate Vice President, Global Market Access, Global Pharma, the Executive Director, Global Market Access, Ophthalmology will be a member of the GMAx Pharma leadership team and will lead a team for the Ophthalmology portfolio.

The Executive Director, Global Market Access, Ophthalmology will play a leadership role in developing an integrated global market access, pricing and reimbursement strategy for an exciting portfolio of Ophthalmology assets. In this role, the Executive Director will work collaboratively across the enterprise and lead the team in development and execution of global market access strategy and objectives, payer value proposition, pricing strategy, and payer stakeholder communication tools in collaboration with cross-functional teams from Commercial, R&D, Outcomes Research, Medical Affairs, Policy, Communications, and with regional and local market teams.

In addition, the role will plan, align and execute with other GMAx teams like Global Pricing and Sustainable Access Solutions. The role requires outstanding leadership to support timely, broad, and sustainable access to our Ophthalmology portfolio and deliver value to our customers.

Primary Responsibilities:

• As an integral part of the Global Pharma leadership team, be actively involved in setting the tone, vision and ambition for the organization and setting an example for what great looks like.

• As the Lead of the Ophthalmology team, inspire and coach the team to develop the global payer value proposition, access and pricing strategy for our Ophthalmology portfolio, ensuring access considerations are integrated into global access plans and taking informed positions related to price, value and affordability challenges at the appropriate time of product development and launch.  

• As a visionary, inform current and future access strategy by synthesizing and communicating payer customer insights, including having oversight of payer market research and analysis of payer landscape and competition.

• As a collaborator, ensuring patient access objectives and strategy are linked to clinical development, commercial and value evidence plans by championing the market access vision for the Ophthalmology portfolio in close partnership with cross functional teams including: Marketing and Product Development Teams (PDTs), R&D (ex. clinical, OR and medical affairs), and regional and country access teams.

• As a guide for the asset-leads who will lead the Global Access Team (GAT), a strategic platform that facilitates cross-functional collaboration around Access priorities across global teams, key markets and regions.

• As the owner of the Access strategy, to bring alignment along with co-leads from OR by providing strategic guidance for the 4th hurdle framework assessments that inform access strategy and evidence generation plans for LCM and pipeline.

• As a key resource for regional and country access teams, to prepare for external competitive and environmental pressures with proactive access and negotiation strategies to differentiate and strengthen leadership, including innovative access solutions and contracting.

• As a key resource for Business Development, by providing access assumptions for business development assessments on an ad-hoc basis.

• As a key resource for Policy, to collaborate in the development of action plans that shape value frameworks and other policies impacting value assessment.

• As a Team lead, to build a strong high performing team and coach and develop team members.

Education Minimum Requirement:

• Required: BA/BS

• Preferred: Master’s degree in business administration, health policy, or health economics

Required Experience and Skills:

• At least 10 years of experience in one or more of these areas: market access, pricing/reimburse