About This Role
The Senior Manager, Lupus Market Access Strategy is accountable for shaping and executing the US payer and reimbursement strategy for future lupus launches. This role owns the translation of brand ambition into actionable access strategy and payer-facing marketing execution, ensuring that pricing, evidence, reimbursement, and channel tactics collectively enable optimal patient access.
With support from the Access Strategy Lead, the Senior Manager serves as a strategic and operational leader, shaping access direction while also driving the development, approval, and deployment of payer and reimbursement marketing initiatives across commercial and government channels.
What You’ll Do
• Drive market access launch strategy as well as development and execution of payer and reimbursement marketing initiatives
• Ensure alignment and coordination of Market Access & Reimbursement strategies across both commercial and government payers with US brand/commercial partners
• Liaise with Global Value & Access / HEOR teams and US Brand teams to build payer value narrative and messaging tailored to various stakeholders, including government and private payers, health plans, and PBMs
• Collaborate with National/Regional/Trade Account teams and field reimbursement teams to understand field needs; design and execute impactful tactics and training programs
• Develop strategies and frameworks for access and reimbursement engagement with providers and other key contacts within our provider customer base
• Develop and deliver appropriate pre- and post-launch payer and channel resources (e.g. DSA, PIE, Economic/BOI Considerations, BIM, PVP and pull-through resources)
• Own the medical, legal, and regulatory approval (Promotional Review Committee/PRC) of all payer and reimbursement marketing tactics
• Manage our vendor agency of record to ensure fulfillment and execution of projects and tactics within budget
• Lead the annual brand planning process for access and reimbursement activities
• Partner closely with Business Insights & Analytics, HCP Marketing, Patient Marketing, and Lupus Franchise leadership to monitor the progress of the various initiatives and adjust execution plan appropriately
• Lead field input sessions to collect feedback from field-based account and reimbursement teams to continuously align marketing materials with key customer feedback and strategic priorities
• Partner with data analytics for targeting, pull through and opportunities to maximize engagements
Who You Are
You are a strategic thinker who loves working collaboratively across the business to design and execute solutions to complex business challenges. You are an engaging communicator who can craft a strong story and deliver it in a compelling way. You are adept at influencing without direct authority.
Required Qualifications
• BA, BS required, MBA or other graduate degree preferred
• 5+ years of pharmaceutical, biopharma industry experience, including direct responsibility for marketing activities, ideally for payers
• Demonstrated understanding of payer market dynamics as it relates to commercialization, pricing, specialty distribution and overall access for subcutaneous / specialty pharmacy medicines
• Ability to complete quantitative and qualitative analyses of complex strategic initiatives
• Experience in developing tools and tactics applicable to US payer markets and customers
• Strong sense of professionalism, accountability and urgency for defined areas of responsibility
• Strong project management skills with the ability to independently drive projects forward to meet budgets and timelines
• Ability to communicate tactical direction and related concepts clearly, orally and in writing, across internal and external audiences (e.g., payer account team, sales, marketing, advocacy)
• Heightened ability to collaborate, influence, and work with a wide array of internal and external stakeholders to successfully deliver results
• Experience managing multiple demands and priorities on time and under business constraints
Preferred Skills
• Lupus payer and channel marketing experience strongly preferred
• Previous experience or background in HEOR preferred
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
- 5+ years of pharmaceutical, biopharma industry experience including payer marketing
- Demonstrated understanding of payer market dynamics
- Ability to complete quantitative and qualitative analyses
- Strong project management skills
- Ability to communicate tactical direction clearly
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.
