Associate Director, Contracts Pricing & Trade

Neurocrine Biosciences • San Diego, CA

6d • $170,400 - $233,000

About The Position

Responsible for developing and implementing market access agreements with various organizations to ensure competitive access for Neurocrine's products. Analyzes contracting impact, provides insights, ensures pricing compliance, and supports process improvement and compliance oversight. Works closely with legal and compliance teams to manage complex contractual rebate obligations and validate account performance results.

Requirements

• BS/BA degree in business or science Fields and 10+ years of experience in healthcare/pharma; ophthalmic and/or biopharma launch experience and operations and analytics strongly preferred OR Master's degree or MBA preferred and 8+ years of related experience
• Anticipate business and industry issues; recommend relevant process / technical / service improvements
• Demonstrate broad expertise or unique knowledge
• Excellent communication (verbal/written), presentation, problem-solving, analytical thinking and project management skills
• Strong mentoring skill and abilities; typically mentors lower-level employees and/or indirect teams
• See broader picture and longer-term impact on division/company
• Ability to meet multiple deadlines across a variety of projects/programs, with a high degree of accuracy and efficiency
• Understand coverage, and payments across all payer types
• Understand and monitor payer policies and trends that impact the therapeutic area
• Working knowledge of reimbursement, clinical coding/terminology, managed care, and healthcare policy
• Ability to build relationships with Managed Care, Trade, and Policy executives
• Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional matrix environment
• Good understanding of regulatory, legal, compliance requirements for success
• Skilled at negotiating with business partners or management and influencing senior level leaders regarding matters of significance to the organization
• Proficient at creating and communicating a clear vision among team members effectively aligning resources and activities to achieve functional area and/or organizational goals
• Ability to complete quantitative and qualitative analyses of complex strategic initiatives
• Knowledge of the business models, influence/impact, and decision drivers of U.S. commercial and government payers and PBM’s as well as channel customers (i.e., pharmacy and distribution, etc.)
• Understanding of reimbursement methodologies utilized by commercial and government payers under pharmacy benefits
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate complex business challenges and data-driven recommendations to senior leaders
• Ability to create contracting and pricing tactics to implement strategic goals
• Innovative and able to invent and create opportunities
• Ability to work in a quickly shifting and fast paced environment
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Outlook and database applications

Responsibilities

• Facilitate pricing and execution for INGREZZA and other assets in the pipeline
• Develop thorough, and meaningful analytics pre and post execution to clearly communicate contract results and performance
• Contribute to shaping the scope and approach for contracting with access stakeholders, including Pharmacy Channel, Commercial Payers, Government Payers, etc.
• Handle the execution and communication aspects of pricing and contracting, including supporting the preparation of materials for pricing committee meetings, communicating pricing and access strategy to the executive committee and other senior leaders, and informing external stakeholders and field personnel as needed
• Oversee State Price Transparency Reporting to ensure timely completion of government price reporting requirements and compliance with state price transparency regulations. Effectively lead and manage vendors and internal stakeholders to achieve this
• Support Gross-to-Net projection and accrual process: develop and run reports from the projection model, perform analysis, and collaborate on accruals
• Support internal and external audits
• Stay informed about the market access and health policy landscapes, understanding key legislative policies like the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and staying abreast of payer and access stakeholder evolution, pricing, and payment changes that could impact Neurocrine
• Develop key actionable insights via conceptualizing complex data into concise and actionable insights from access customer (Specialty Pharmacy, Specialty Distributor, Long Term Care Specialty Pharmacy, etc.)
• Develop insights, strategies, and tactics for market access to include, but not limited to: coverage dashboards and payer team performance metrics
• As required, attend Field Sales and other company meetings, industry conferences, and customer meetings to stay current on the competitive environment, challenges, and other relevant issues
• Oversee and manage the rebate analyst duties for all payer invoicing, as well as build and manage all Pricing Committee proposals for payer rebates
• Other duties as assigned

Benefits

• retirement savings plan (with company match)
• paid vacation, holiday and personal days
• paid caregiver/parental and medical leave
• health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees