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Associate Director, Market Access Strategy - Immunology
Associate Director, Market Access Strategy - ImmunologyAstraZeneca • Wilmington, DE, US
Associate Director, Market Access Strategy - Immunology

Associate Director, Market Access Strategy - Immunology

AstraZeneca • Wilmington, DE, US
20 hours ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Associate Director, Market Access Strategy

Do you have expertise in, and passion for Market Access? Would you like to apply your expertise to impact the Immunology therapeutic area in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? Then AstraZeneca might be the one for you!

At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you're our kind of person.

Reporting to the Director Market Access Strategy, the Assoc. Dir., Market Access Strategy will be responsible for shaping and implementing Market Access Strategies for our immunology product. The incumbent will contribute to the development and implementation of a communication strategy and support negotiations with national payers, regional payers and health systems. The incumbent will develop and manage the distribution, affordability strategies and programs. Additionally, this incumbent will develop insights and recommendations on access and affordability messages to support the overall HCP & Consumer communication strategy and promotional assets. This candidate will work closely with the Market Access, Marketing, Sales, Medical Affairs, Finance, Sales, Distribution and Insight teams to ensure seamless customer experience and alignment toward the overall brand objectives.

What You'll Do

  • Collaborates with cross-functional team (Marketing, Insights, Medical Affairs, Field Sales) as well as Market Access customer-facing teams to identify rich market insights across patients, providers, and payers to inform comprehensive market access strategies and aligned messaging across segments
  • Develops compelling and differentiated product value propositions and builds associated customer education materials
  • Leads in the design and implementation of affordability programming that ensures patient access while carefully stewarding brand budget and gross to net impact
  • Develops pharmacy engagement and distribution strategies and tactics that support the overall access strategy
  • Accountable for Field Sales Market Access pull-through strategies surrounding distribution and collaboration with sales representatives / leadership to troubleshoot access challenges encountered in the field
  • Effectively manages agency relationships ensuring promotional programs are delivered on-time and within budget
  • Develops and manages associated budgets in compliance with AZ finance and accounting requirements
  • Performs all company business in accordance with regulations and company policies and procedures

Essential for the Role

  • Bachelor's Degree required
  • Minimum of 5 years progressive experience within the pharmaceutical / biopharmaceutical market including payer marketing, brand marketing, contracting, account management, and / or health economics
  • Strong understanding of the US market access landscape and the legal / regulatory environment for pharmaceuticals / biopharmaceuticals
  • Ability to think strategically across the full business and to translate strategy into tactical implementation
  • Demonstrated ability to motivate colleagues at all levels to complete strategy
  • Teamwork and leadership skills, including the ability to gain consensus and act within ambiguous, complex matrix organization
  • Results oriented with excellent communication and collaboration skills and financial savvy
  • Thorough understanding of customer and industry marketing practices, trends, and financial priorities
  • Demonstrated drive, and desire to grow career beyond the Market Access Associate Director Role.
  • Willingness to travel domestically and internationally (up to 20%)

    • Desirable for the Role

  • MBA in relevant field
  • Experience developing and implementing strategy
  • Customer facing experience
  • Managed care / payer experience

    • Why AstraZeneca?

    At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognizing their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organization to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we're opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

    So, what's next!

    Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can't wait to hear from you.

    AstraZeneca has taken critical steps to protecting colleagues, loved ones, and patients from COVID-19 and its variants. COVID-19 vaccination is required for all US employees, and weekly PCR COVID-19 testing is required for those who are unvaccinated or have an approved accommodation.

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