Associate Director – Early Pipeline Global Market Access

Job Category: Business Professional

Duration: 12 Months

Salary: $89/hour on W2

Job Description:

The Early Pipeline Market Access Associate Director/Director will lead commercial and business case assessments for both business development opportunities and gene therapy pipeline programs.

The role will provide strategic guidance by integrating timely payer insight and perspectives into commercial planning and clinical development decisions. This role will also be assisting with/leading

certain ad-hoc cross-functional initiatives and will report into the Senior Director Global Market Access; Value gene therapies.

Position Requirements:

• Any equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience that fulfills the requirements of the position will be considered.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 7 years of work experience in the pharmaceutical, medical, biotech, or related industries;  preferably in commercial assessment/new product planning/disease area strategy/early commercialization from the pharmaceutical industry, consulting, or equity analyst roles.
• Thorough understanding of price and reimbursement mechanisms, key EMEA, International.
• Established Markets, and APAC HTA systems, access challenges, and payer perspectives.
• Proficient in both primary and secondary market research.
• Experience leading early pipeline market access strategy.
• High skill levels in cross functional collaborations and teams, strong leadership, and presentations skills with leadership across commercial and scientific team members.
• Strong interpersonal and peer leadership skills with the ability to work cross-functionally in a dynamic environment.
• Proficient in MS Office, including MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, etc.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Education/Certification/Experience:

• BA or BS degree required, Master’s degree in health sciences, pharmacy, economics, business, or related field preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct market research to understand disease epidemiology, patient segmentation, treatment and competitive landscape, and unmet medical needs, pricing and access expectations, etc.
• Translate insights from market research to both qualitative and quantitative commercial assessment.
• Provide commercial/business case assessment to inform business development projects and critical investment decisions.
• Identify clinical and economic evidence needs to achieve target reimbursement; ensure that market access inputs are incorporated into clinical trial designs for early pipeline assets and that there is a plan
• in place to address evidence gaps.
• Provide inputs into clinical development to align to what is meaningful to patients and payers, assist in developing a differentiated target product profile, and develop market positioning strategies for early-
• stage pipeline programs.
• Analyze trends and changes in the global market access environment, including landscape, competitors, and timelines to determine strategic implications for pipeline assets.
• Plan for early access programs and compassionate use programs in partnership with the development team and patient advocacy
• Collaborate with Commercial, NPP, Global Analytics, GEORR, and Medical Affairs to build long-term relationships with stakeholders and effectively drive Market Access activities.
• Support certain ad-hoc cross-functional initiatives (e.g., portfolio prioritization process, disease area strategy formulation, etc.).
• Support monthly GMAV meetings operations of developing pre-reads, taking meeting minutes, also support budget tracking for key projects throughout the fiscal year.

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