Job Description
General Summary:
The Pricing & Market Access Director is responsible for leading the development and/or execution of Market Access strategies, in close collaboration with country Market Access teams, for one or more in-line/launch products, as well as partnering cross-functionally on commercial pipeline asset development strategies.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for payer strategic planning to support value and access optimization
- Leads development of Market Access strategies and core pricing & access deliverables operating within the Commercial model
- Ensures the payer position is consistently represented to internal cross-functional stakeholders and ensures robust strategic input into in-line commercialization and pipeline development decisions
- Partners cross-functionally to ensure robust value proposition and integrated evidence plans are optimized to support market access and reimbursement
- Supports strategies with deep functional knowledge, in-depth market research, environmental data & analogs
- Informs financial forecasts and commercial assessments
- Works on the execution of pricing and access strategy, including the localization of access strategy, tactical execution and pricing business cases
- Supports capability building and thought leadership projects that advance knowledge of and readiness for the rapidly evolving payer environment.
- Collaborates closely with New Product Planning, HEOR, Pricing & Market Access, Government Affairs and Public Policy, Marketing and Clinical Development / Medical counterparts to ensure value and access optimization
Knowledge and Skills:
- Ability to think strategically and make sound pricing and market access recommendations
- Strong practical, quantitative and analytical skills combined with a sound understanding of how to successfully apply pricing & reimbursement / HEOR principles to support Vertex
- Outstanding written and oral communication skills, including the ability to effectively write and deliver presentations to professionals at all levels within Vertex
- Relationship building at all levels of the organization and across geographies
- Excellent interpersonal skills to communicate complex concepts and negotiate with others
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline
- Prior experience in above-country market access roles and working with multiple countries required
- Experience working in new product planning (pipeline) preferred
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Flex Designation:
Hybrid-Eligible Or On-Site Eligible
Flex Eligibility Status:
In this Hybrid-Eligible role, you can choose to be designated as:
1. Hybrid: work remotely up to two days per week; or select
2. On-Site: work five days per week on-site with ad hoc flexibility.
Note: The Flex status for this position is subject to Vertex’s Policy on Flex @ Vertex Program and may be changed at any time.
Company Information
Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation.
Vertex is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Vertex is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. Vertex will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.
Any applicant requiring an accommodation in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should make a request to the recruiter or hiring manager, or contact Talent Acquisition at [email protected]
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What We Do
Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation to create transformative medicines for people with serious and life-threatening diseases. We discovered and developed the first medicines to treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis (CF), a rare, life-threatening genetic disease. In addition to clinical development programs in CF, Vertex has more than a dozen ongoing research programs focused on the underlying mechanisms of other serious diseases. Founded in 1989 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, our corporate headquarters is now located in Boston’s Innovation District, and our international headquarters is in London, United Kingdom. We currently employ approximately 3,500 people in the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and Latin America with nearly two-thirds of our staff dedicated to research and development. Vertex is consistently recognized as one of the industry’s top places to work by Science Magazine, The Boston Globe, Boston Business Journal and the San Diego Business Journal. Our research and medicines have also received esteemed recognitions, including the Robert J. Beall Therapeutics Development Award, the French Prix Galien and the British Pharmacological Society awards.
