Director, Market Access Strategy - Remote

Job Description Summary

US Market Access Strategy will support the company in understanding overarching Market Access opportunities and challenges, and help the organization navigate future complexity with external Market Access stakeholders.

The Director, Market Access Strategy is part of a team that collectively defines and delivers solutions to maintain an industry leading approach to market access. This role is responsible to provide market access perspectives to help inform strategic decision-making. The Director will ensure that the organization has a coherent, well supported, forward thinking, Market Access strategy that optimizes our ability to reach appropriate patients as well as the overall potential value of the portfolio to the organization. This role works cross functionally with multiple internal stakeholders, including Strategic Pricing & Contracting, Therapeutic Area Strategy leads, Policy, Product General Managers, Finance, and Strategy & Growth.

 

Job Description

Location: Remote

Key Responsibilities:

• Partnering with internal subject matter experts to understand Market Access external stakeholder business models and management, industry trends, how they may evolve in the future, and the implications to our business/portfolio, including and the market access portfolio risks and/or opportunities to optimize coverage and patient access
• Working with the Novartis Policy team to assess the potential implications of new or proposed policy changes on our inline and pipeline products
• Ensuring that leadership across the organization is well-informed of Market Access opportunities and challenges
• Supporting leadership and extended team initiatives to educate the organization on Market Access conditions
• Coordinating rapid, ad hoc assessments of emergent business questions, aligning position, and disseminating throughout the organization
• Developing leadership presentations to support the Chief Market Access Officer
• Managing lunch-and-learn and newsletter programming for the internal US Market Access and the broader organization to ensure a common understanding of the US Market Access position on key market access developments and to showcase noteworthy achievements
• Drafting an annual US Market Access Outlook to inform brand planning across the organization (e.g., perspectives on biosimilar landscape evolution, policy changes that might affect our products, key customer evolution)
• Developing industry-leading frameworks, tools and resources, so therapeutic area teams can efficiently develop Market Access forecasting assumptions, including pricing, payer coverage, and implications of forecasted quality of coverage on physician demand and patient Rx fulfillment
• Overseeing critical market research
• Mastering the NVS Material Approval Process, including FUSE platform, compliance with pharma/FDA marketing policies, and vendor payment systems
• Positioning the Market Access Portfolio Strategy team as a destination for high-potential …