Description:
The Pricing & Market Access Director is responsible for leading the development and/or execution of Market Access strategies, in close collaboration with country Market Access teams, for one or more in-line/launch products, as well as partnering cross-functionally on commercial pipeline asset development strategies.
Key Duties And Responsibilities
- Responsible for payer strategic planning to support value and access optimization
- Leads development of Market Access strategies and core pricing & access deliverables operating within the Commercial model
- Ensures the payer position is consistently represented to internal cross-functional stakeholders and ensures robust strategic input into in-line commercialization and pipeline development decisions
- Partners cross-functionally to ensure robust value proposition and integrated evidence plans are optimized to support market access and reimbursement
- Supports strategies with deep functional knowledge, in-depth market research, environmental data & analogs
- Informs financial forecasts and commercial assessments
- Works on the execution of pricing and access strategy, including the localization of access strategy, tactical execution and pricing business cases
- Supports capability building and thought leadership projects that advance knowledge of and readiness for the rapidly evolving payer environment.
- Collaborates closely with New Product Planning, HEOR, Pricing & Market Access, Government Affairs and Public Policy, Marketing and Clinical Development / Medical counterparts to ensure value and access optimization
Knowledge And Skills
- Ability to think strategically and make sound pricing and market access recommendations
- Strong practical, quantitative and analytical skills combined with a sound understanding of how to successfully apply pricing & reimbursement / HEOR principles to support Vertex
- Outstanding written and oral communication skills, including the ability to effectively write and deliver presentations to professionals at all levels within Vertex
- Relationship building at all levels of the organization and across geographies
- Excellent interpersonal skills to communicate complex concepts and negotiate with others
Education And Experience
- Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline
- Prior experience in above-country market access roles and working with multiple countries required
- Experience working in new product planning (pipeline) preferred