Executive Director, Global Market Access Portfolio Strategy

Job Description
We are currently recruiting for an Executive Director, Oncology Portfolio Strategy, Global Market Access
Our Oncology access team is dedicated to delivering breakthrough innovations that extend and improve the lives of cancer patients worldwide. Our team of forward-thinking individuals achieve this through an unwavering commitment to support patient accessibility to medicines, providing new therapeutic solutions, and collaborating with cross functional partners to advance our exciting pipeline and lead launch execution excellence. We translate breakthrough science into innovative medicines that are reimbursed timely by governments and payers to ensure that people who need our medicines get access in an accelerated fashion. Our focus is on innovation that help people with cancer across the globe.
The Executive Director will develop the oncology multi-asset, multi-indication access end to end strategy and the execution of above asset portfolio assessment and prioritization. This position will require outstanding leadership across access, commercial and R&D to conduct and update key market assessments, lead tumor strategies, give input to asset access teams on clinical development and business development scenarios and tradeoffs, payer segmentation, asset and indication sequencing, external engagement with payers and policy makers, and be the voice of the customer to the development programs. The role requires overall flawless execution in building critical capabilities in-house to mitigate payers' concerns on budgets and HTAs' expectations.
The role requires engaging stakeholders and leading global market access activities in three spheres:

• With the R&D organization in being able to shape product profiles using the access lens
• Across global functions including payer engagement, policy, medical affairs, CORE, etc.
• Leaders and colleagues with the global and regional market access team

Key responsibilities include and are not limited to the following:

• Overall responsibility for the development and adoption of the pan asset pan tumor access strategy to build a global leadership position for our Company Oncology portfolio of assets from inline to development
• Provides access leadership and input on such activities including launch sequencing, indication sequencing, tumor-specific target product profile development, health authority interactions, launch readiness reviews, key customer engagement and payer research, patient segmentation by tumor, Business Development & Licensing activities, and agency partner management.
• Building leading access capabilities and working effectively with cross-functional partners including research and development, medical affairs, regulatory affairs, Business Development & Licensing, market analytics, country and regional access teams, legal and compliance to successfully navigate the internal and external environments to generate and deliver insights to PDTs and asset teams and deliver value to our customers
• Responsible for achieving key access metrics at a global level through asset teams, collaboration with external partners and 3rd party partnerships to improve and enhance reimbursement to actual patients treated
• Provides direction, support, and expertise to asset access teams in asset, market and indication prioritization
• Builds LMIC access opportunities and options
• Builds strong high performing teams and develops and coaches team members
• Leverages data and digital to build tools and platforms for key insights and decision making
• Excellence in execution

Education:

• Required: Bachelor's Degree (ideally in a life science/ science/ analytical area)
• Preferred: Master's Degree or doctoral degree (MD, PhD, JD, Engineering, business)

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum 15+ combined access, commercial, payer, HEOR or related experiences in pharmaceutical or biotechnology industries 10 years commercial experience; total of 15+ years' experience
• Product launch and reimbursement experience
• Landscape/ Marketplace assessment experience
• Payer excellence, including payer engagements, negotiations and partnerships
• Development of product strategy, product positioning, portfolio strategy and portfolio prioritization
• Comfort with and strong interest in scientific underpinnings of our clinical trials and those of competitors to effectively engage internal and external experts on best patient access strategies for the entire oncology portfolio
• Strong problem solving skills and ability to work and make decisions while dealing with ambiguity
• Agility to learn quickly and adapt to changing environment, flexibility in managing and adapting to evolving internal and external dynamics and needs
• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills
• Must be able to influence without authority as well as work collaboratively in cross-functional teams
• Project management skills desirable

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• People management and cross functional leadership experience
• Oncology experience
• Oncology launch experience
• Market access and pricing experience
• Payer and marketing analytics experience

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Employee Status:
Regular
Relocation:
International
VISA Sponsorship:
Yes
Travel Requirements:
25%
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Hybrid
Shift:
Not Indicated
Valid Driving License:
No
Hazardous Material(s):
n/a
Requisition ID:R285673