About This Role
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Director of U.S. Market Access Marketing to lead the evolution and execution of the U.S. market access activities for our Specialty Portfolio in Multiple Sclerosis. This is a critical leadership role responsible for driving comprehensive access strategies, payer engagement, and cross-functional alignment to ensure successful, timely product growth.
What You’ll Do
• Evolve access strategies for products in a highly competitive access landscape
• Deliver impactful value propositions, messaging, and promotional materials (both branded and unbranded) tailored to key customer segments (e.g., payers, IDNs, GPOs)
• Champion pull-through activities to ensure access is being optimized at the territory level
• Lead pricing and contracting strategies for payers and providers, ensuring market competitiveness and optimal access
• Execute strategies for buy-and-bill environments, including physician-administered settings
• Partner with medical and HEOR to support the development of evidence generation plans aligned with payer needs
• Drive competitive intelligence activities to inform access strategies and positioning
• Monitor evolving reimbursement and policy landscapes and integrate insights into access strategies
• Drive cross-functional collaboration across global value and access and several U.S. teams including pricing, HEOR, trade & distribution, field access, medical regulatory, legal, training, and commercial brand marketing/sales/ reimbursement teams
• Coach and develop future market access marketing talent
Who You Are
The ideal candidate will bring a strong background in payer marketing, pricing, trade & distribution, and buy-and-bill models, with a proven ability to drive results through collaboration and broad commercial strategic thinking. A strong background in market access consulting is also applicable. This role requires a hands-on leader who can operate both strategically and tactically to deliver impact across the full market access spectrum. You will join a purpose-driven leadership team that values focus, agility, collaboration, and execution.
Required Skills
• Bachelor’s degree required, MBA preferred
• Minimum 10+ years of experience in U.S. market access, payer marketing, pricing, or related fields within the pharmaceutical or biotech industry
• Strong understanding of buy-and-bill reimbursement pathways, including provider dynamics and payer policy considerations
• Strong knowledge of payer landscape, policy trends, trade & distribution models, and pricing frameworks
• Exceptional leadership and cross-functional team management skills
• Strategic mindset with strong analytical and communication capabilities
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a high degree of ownership and accountability
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Additional Information
Base salary offered is determined through an analytical approach utilizing a combination of factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills & experience, job location, and internal equity.
Regular employees are eligible to receive both short term and long-term incentives, including cash bonus and equity incentive opportunities, designed to reward recent achievements and recognize your future potential based on individual, business unit and company performance.
In addition to compensation, Biogen offers a full and highly competitive range of benefits designed to support our employees’ and their families physical, financial, emotional, and social well-being; including, but not limited to:
- Medical, Dental, Vision, & Life insurances
- Fitness & Wellness programs including a fitness reimbursement
- Short- and Long-Term Disability insurance
- A minimum of 15 days of paid vacation and an additional end-of-year shutdown time off (Dec 26-Dec 31)
- Up to 12 company paid holidays + 3 paid days off for Personal Significance
- 80 hours of sick time per calendar year
- Paid Maternity and Parental Leave benefit
- 401(k) program participation with company matched contributions
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Tuition reimbursement of up to $10,000 per calendar year
- Employee Resource Groups participation
Why Biogen?
We are a global team with a commitment to excellence, and a pioneering spirit. As a mid-sized biotechnology company, we provide the stability and resources of a well-established business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning, growth, and expanding their skills. Above all, we work together to deliver life-changing medicines, with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.
At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired. Read on to learn more about our DE&I efforts.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree required, MBA preferred
- Minimum 10+ years of experience in U.S. market access or payer marketing
- Strong understanding of buy-and-bill reimbursement pathways
- Strong knowledge of payer landscape and pricing frameworks
- Exceptional leadership and cross-functional team management skills
- Strategic mindset with strong analytical capabilities
Biogen Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Biogen and has not been reviewed or approved by Biogen.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is generally positioned as competitive and often perceived as fair across roles, with total compensation framed as strong when bonus and equity are included. Compensation sentiment is described as above-average overall, though it varies by function and business cycle.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity programs are repeatedly highlighted as a meaningful part of the total package, including stock programs and an employee stock purchase plan. Equity and bonus elements are portrayed as important contributors to feeling well rewarded beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are described as distinctive, including a year-end shutdown and a paid sabbatical after extended tenure. Vacation, holidays, sick time, and personal-significance days are also presented as supportive of work-life needs.
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What We Do
Through cutting-edge science and medicine, Biogen discovers, develops and delivers innovative therapies worldwide for people living with serious neurological and neurodegenerative diseases. Founded in 1978, Biogen is a pioneer in biotechnology and today the Company has the leading portfolio of medicines to treat multiple sclerosis, has introduced the first and only approved treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, and is at the forefront of neurology research for conditions including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Biogen also manufactures and commercializes biosimilars of advanced biologics. With approximately 7000 people worldwide, we are truly a global organization, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is also home to our research operations. Our international headquarters are based in Zug, Switzerland and we have world-class manufacturing facilities in North Carolina and Denmark. We offer therapies globally through direct affiliate presence in 30 countries and a network of distribution partners in over 50 additional countries. For more information, please visit www.biogen.com. Follow us on social media – Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube.
