About This Role:
The Director of Value & Access is pivotal in crafting and executing market access strategies for Biogen's products, focusing on the EU and Biogen Intercontinental Region affiliates. You’ll play a crucial role in providing strategic vision and tactical expertise across our marketed and pipeline portfolios, collaborating closely with global teams. This position involves preparing for health technology assessments, engaging in negotiation strategies, and developing innovative access schemes. Your efforts will support Biogen's mission, ensuring our products are accessible to those who need them most. You'll work alongside cross-functional teams to align launch strategies, ensuring successful market entry and sustained presence in key regions. Your contribution will be instrumental in navigating the complex payer landscape and driving Biogen's success.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead the development of regional market access strategies and provide insights to global functions.
- Collaborate with affiliate Access teams to set priorities for successful pricing and reimbursement (P&R).
- Partner with Medical and Global Value & Access teams to identify evidence needs for payer value propositions.
- Provide strategic input on the evolving ex-US payer landscape, highlighting future opportunities and challenges.
- Represent the Value & Access function in the EU/BIR Regional Operations team.
- Oversee national pricing and market access implementation, anticipating changes in the competitive environment.
- Align country market access needs with corporate annual planning processes.
- Ensure training for regional and affiliates on market access materials and capabilities.
- Foster a culture of excellence and collaboration within ICOE, Value & Access, and Affiliates.
- Disseminate key learnings and best practices across teams.
Who You Are:
You are an experienced professional with a deep understanding of market access and the biopharmaceutical landscape. Your strategic thinking and organizational skills are complemented by your ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities. You thrive in collaborative environments, bringing teams together to solve complex problems. Your customer-focused mindset, coupled with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, enables you to navigate challenges and drive success.
Required Skills:
- Minimum of 10 years’ experience in market access, reimbursement, and public affairs within the biopharmaceutical industry.
- Strong technical understanding of pricing, reimbursement, and access.
- Sound knowledge of healthcare systems in top 10 ex-US markets and pricing and reimbursement requirements.
- Strong project management skills.
- Demonstrable experience in managing multiple cross-functional projects and external vendors.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Higher level degree in Health Economics, Health Services Research, Epidemiology, Marketing, or Business Studies (MA/MSc/PhD).
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with health technology assessment (HTA) agencies or direct payer experience.
- Proven track record in strategic market access planning and implementation.
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
- Minimum of 10 years' experience in market access, reimbursement, and public affairs within the biopharmaceutical industry.
- Strong technical understanding of pricing, reimbursement, and access.
- Sound knowledge of healthcare systems in top 10 ex-US markets and pricing and reimbursement requirements.
- Strong project management skills.
- Demonstrable experience in managing multiple cross-functional projects and external vendors.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Higher level degree in Health Economics, Health Services Research, Epidemiology, Marketing, or Business Studies (MA/MSc/PhD).
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.
Biogen Insights
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.
