Lead, Pricing & Contracting - Americas Market Access, Global Rare Disease

This is what you will do

This position will support the Americas Rare Disease Market Access team in developing, implementing, and analyzing contracting strategies across all customer segments, including Commercial, Medicare, Medicaid, VA/DOD & 340B for portfolio(s) of products. The position will also own pricing strategies and business development assessments within their portfolio(s) remit.

This position will report directly into the Head, Contracting, Forecasting and Pricing within Americas Market Access.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Develop payer contract strategies & data requirements for both current and future products in conjunction with Market Access team cross functional partners.
• Assist in developing and implementing all Commercial and Government contracts for Chiesi US Global Rare Disease Products, where appropriate.
• Design and develop business case tools and processes for contract proposal evaluation
• Serve as liaison with customers and internal teams (Legal, Market Access, Sales, Patient Services, and Finance) in creating, executing, and managing pricing strategies & contracts.
• Works closely with Forecasting and Finance to model GTN impact of contracts and forecast overall contract impact projections long term
• Responsible for staying up to date and current on Market Access related policies along with outside vendors and perform analysis of impact of policies to Rare disease products
• Create contract performance reporting to monitor and assess customer contracts.
• Lead contractual negotiations with National Account Directors and conduct regular business updates with stakeholders on all contracted accounts (Commercial or Government accounts)
• Evaluate, execute, and maintain Federal contractual agreements-Federal Supply Schedule, Tricare/DOD & 340B
• Lead for WAC Price increase strategy, annual revenue impact drivers and proactively monitoring and communicating competitive landscape price updates
• Responsible for performing price assessments and potential market access positioning for business development assessments for respective portfolio(s)
• Utilize Market Access tools and systems to support contract business cases and payer assessments 
  
  • Oversee Medicare, commercial, VA, DOD, and PHS chargebacks as applicable
  • Assist in other special projects to ensure a well-supported pricing & coverage strategy are incorporated in all assumptions for respective portfolio(s)
  • Perform payer research where needed to proactively understand rare disease landscape utilization management
  • Serve as a subject matter expert on trends related to key drivers of trends through proactive research and analysis of internal and external data sources, industry publications as it relates to payer and segment mix, and other industry related topics and analytics.

You will need to have

• Bachelor's Degree.
• 5-10 years pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical experience, with five years of Pricing & Contracts experience.
• Strong understanding of the specialty pharmaceutical space and orphan drug space.
• Experience working in market access channels with large National Payers, regional health plans, state and local governments.
• PBM's & Specialty Pharmacy/HUBS Potential candidates must have a solid understanding of crucial government policy infrastructure, public and private Payor policy infrastructure, payment methodologies, coverage, health policy trends, and current business challenges.
• Effective executive level negotiation skills
• Well-developed relationship management and collaboration skills with internal and external stakeholders.
• Self-directed and confident, with developed ability to build teamwork centered on shared commitment and goals to achieve high standards of performance
• Ability to successfully manage multiple tasks and multifunctional resources concurrently while maintaining high attention to detail while responding to rapidly changing priorities and aggressive deadlines.
• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, Project, Outlook) Adobe.  Additional experience working with payer formulary access platforms and other data driven interactive dashboards.

We would prefer for you to have

• Master's Degree or advanced degree.
• Market Access experience.

Location

Remote position open to candidates that reside in Central or Eastern time zone. Candidates must have ability to travel minimum of 4-6 days per month to Boston, MA or similar office, in addition to 30-40% domestic/international travel. #LI-Remote

Compensation

The annual base pay for this position ranges from $184,140 to $225,060. Hourly and salaried non-exempt employees will also be paid overtime pay when working qualifying overtime hours. Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If hired, the employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base pay (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.