Associate Director, Market Access Deal Analytics

Are you ready to turn complex payer data into crucial contracting strategies that improve access for people living with rare diseases?

In this Boston-based role, you will be the enterprise lead for deal analytics, shaping how we assess and execute US Market Access contracts that drive sustainable growth and patient impact.

You will be responsible for the analytical framework that informs high-stakes negotiations and leadership decisions—from pre-deal modeling and assumption development to pull-through measurement and post-deal value realization. Your work will directly connect contract terms to real-world outcomes, enabling disciplined GTN, margin, and return on investment management. How will you use your expertise to help us reach more patients while strengthening our business performance?

Accountabilities:

• Pre-Deal Modeling and Assumption Development: Build and enhance pre-deal models to evaluate payer and IDN contract scenarios, quantify financial impact, and weigh risk trade-offs; co-create and validate core assumptions using historical performance, external benchmarks, and product/payer analogs; establish rapid prototyping approaches that accelerate negotiations and clarify decision-making.

• Deal Analytics Frameworks and Processes: Build and maintain scalable analytical frameworks and data processes that deliver repeatable, high-quality deal evaluations; define consistent business rules and assumptions across contracting analyses; partner with data and reporting teams to secure timely access to critical datasets and improve methodologies, sensitivities, and documentation standards.

• Pull-Through Design and Value Measurement: Engineer measurement approaches aligned to deal structures and assumptions; define clear success criteria—volume lift, new starts, adherence, return on investment, exit share—and link them to behavioral and financial outcomes; set leading indicators (access status change, PA removal, field engagement, early NBRx trends) and lagging indicators (TRx lift, net revenue, rebate realization) that signal performance early and at maturity.

• Post-Deal Value Realization: Lead rigorous post-deal evaluations comparing realized volume, GTN, margin, and access outcomes to modeled expectations; decompose variance to isolate drivers such as assumption gaps, competitive shifts, operational barriers, and uptake timing; recommend corrective actions—field targeting shifts, payer re-engagement, contract renegotiation, or exit—and translate findings into updated modeling guardrails and targeting criteria to continuously improve deal quality and return on investment rigor.

• Leadership and Partner Engagement: Serve as the primary analytics partner to Contracting, Pricing, Market Access leadership, Finance, and Legal; deliver executive-ready insights that articulate trade-offs, risks, GTN impact, and value; influence contracting strategy with clear, data-driven recommendations that advance access and business performance

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Analytics, Finance, Economics, Business, Life Sciences, or related field

• 5+ years of experience in pharmaceutical or biotech analytics with deep focus on payer contracting or pricing analytics

• Strong experience in pre-deal modeling, assumption development, and post-deal evaluation

• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills

• Validated ability to communicate sophisticated analyses to senior leadership

• The duties of this role are generally conducted in an office environment. As is typical of an office-based role, employees must be able, with or without an accommodation to: use a computer; engage in communications via phone, video, and electronic messaging; engage in problem solving and non-linear thought, analysis, and dialogue; collaborate with others; maintain general availability during standard business hours.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Experience in rare disease or specialty products

• Familiarity with GTN concepts and payer contracting structures

• Experience with SQL, Snowflake, Tableau, or Power BI

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Why AstraZeneca:

We move fast on problems that matter, combining the focus of a nimble biotech with the scale and scientific depth of a global biopharma. You will collaborate with diverse experts who challenge assumptions, share data openly, and tie analytics to real patient stories—bringing clarity to complex decisions and impact to communities often overlooked. We value kindness alongside ambition, and we support your growth with opportunities to lead, learn, and build tools that shape access, outcomes, and the future of our medicines.

Call to Action:

If you’re ready to turn rigorous analytics into better access and measurable value, step into this role and help us create results that matter for patients and the business.

The annual base pay for this position ranges from US $147,908 & $221,862. Our positions offer eligibility for various incentives—an opportunity to receive short-term incentive bonuses, equity-based awards for salaried roles and commissions for sales roles. Benefits offered include qualified retirement programs, paid time off (i.e., vacation, holiday, and leaves), as well as health, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms of the applicable plans. 

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