Associate Director, Global Associate Compound Market Access Leader, Oncology

Johnson & Johnson•Raritan, NJ

13d•Onsite

About The Position

Global Commercial Strategy Organization, a group within Janssen Global Services and a member of Johnson & Johnson's family of companies, is recruiting for an Associate Director, Global Compound Market Access, to support the development and implementation of market access strategies for the treatment of Bladder Cancer. This position will be based in Raritan, NJ. The Associate Director, Global Compound Market Access, reporting to the CMAL Oncology, supports the development and execution of market access strategy for key assets aligned with the global brand strategy. The Associate Director contributes market access expertise at the brand level, representing market access within the Compound Development Team and other global strategy teams, and enabling effective collaboration within the matrix. In this role, the Associate Director provides input into Clinical Development and Integrated Evidence Generation Plans to help ensure that strategic plans address market access needs in key countries. The Associate Director supports development of brand value propositions and collaborates through the (Extended) Market Access Team to enable timely, optimal reimbursement in a highly challenging environment across diverse regions with complex and differing needs. The Associate Director monitors key market dynamics and helps translate insights into actionable recommendations.

Requirements

Ph.D., Pharm D, MD, or M.Sc. in appropriate field (preferably Epidemiology, Health Economics, Public Health, Health Policy).
8+ years of professional experience in the pharmaceutical industry (global, regional or operating company level) with a focus in Epidemiology, Health Economics, Payer Access.
5+ years’ experience in the reimbursement environment for key international markets; experience supporting payer negotiations and/or access submissions strongly preferred.
Strong experience in multiple therapy areas, including Oncology.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a matrix organization across functional and geographic boundaries, preferably across multiple countries/market types/access models.
Market Access Landscape: The ability to analyze the evolving payer landscape by researching, developing, and maintaining a strong understanding of payers and their perspectives in key global markets. This includes knowledge of trends in pricing, reimbursement, healthcare policy, and market archetypes.
Healthcare Ecosystem: Knowledge of and ability to assess and navigate the evolving external healthcare environment to create policy strategies for product or disease area and influence policymaking institutions. This includes an understanding of global healthcare systems and policies and how they impact local and regional efforts.
Health Technology Assessment: Knowledge of the principles of evidence-based medicine and methodologies to evaluate health-related technology and deliver product dossiers.
Market Access Analytics: The ability to systematically gather and analyze information from various sources, including modeling, pricing, and contracting strategies. This includes the ability to generate data to support real-world evidence, identify and communicate patterns and trends, and evaluate and develop strategic plans.
Evidence Generation: The ability to apply data science concepts and methodologies to identify and articulate value propositions, support value strategies, generate business insights, and contribute to evidence generation. This includes providing market access inputs to clinical trial design, implementation, and analyses and knowledge of meta-analysis as well as epidemiologic studies.
Clinical Trial Methodology: Knowledge of clinical trials and trial design. This includes applying knowledge to recommend study design plan and methodology, considering trade-offs of different approaches, and developing hypotheses to test primary versus secondary endpoints and implications for labeling.
Coaching and Mentoring: The ability and willingness to coach, mentor, and develop employees. This includes listening, supporting, delivering constructive feedback, and providing guidance to enable others to develop solutions to their business and career related challenges.

Nice To Haves

Therapeutic Area Knowledge: Knowledge of relevant therapeutic areas and targeted disease states to provide market access inputs into clinical trial design. This includes knowledge of portfolios, products, services, treatment options, associated clinical outcomes, understanding of patient flow, and the broader impact these variables have on market access strategies.
Product Valuation Knowledge: The ability to manipulate, interpret, analyze, and explain financial information to provide market access inputs into product valuation and forecasting. This includes understanding financial data and accurately interpreting financial statements and reports and identifying key factors affecting financial performance. This also includes leveraging financial data to identify key issues, forecast, make decisions, and develop business opportunities, strategies, budgets, and plans.
Legal Landscape: The ability to understand legal requirements for products (e.g., intellectual property protection, data exclusivity, communications, competitive loss) that may impact market access strategies at a global, local, or regional level.
Change Agility: The ability and willingness to adapt and influence within the organization as priorities evolve. This includes proactively adjusting one’s style or approach in response to new information, changing conditions, unexpected obstacles, or ambiguous situations, and being open to change and new information.

Responsibilities

Support the global market access strategy for the brand(s): Support the Compound Market Access Team (CMAT), which includes the core functions within Global Market Access (i.e., Health Economics, Patient Reported Outcomes [PRO], Access Policy, Pricing, Real-World Evidence & Analytics), to execute the global market access strategy and deliver key value communication tools for the brand.
Contribute to strategic planning and implementation of payer value generation and access strategies to support an accelerated path to market.
Support the team as a resource on access strategy topics and contribute as a member of global clinical and commercial product teams, as well as disease area strategy groups.
Support integration of pricing, payer research, health economic and epidemiology information to inform the value strategy and key assumptions.
Coordinate with Regional Market Access/Health Economics / Outcomes Research and Medical Affairs teams to support real-world evidence generation aligned to access programs.
Support development of an integrated access strategy that reflects macro (health care reform, quality metrics, technology assessment) and disease-specific factors, as well as the complexity of a companion diagnostic.
Contribute to ensuring that clinical development programs capture the value of innovative products to payers, physicians and patients, including providing input on patient populations, trial design, and selection of relevant endpoints.
Support the design and management of health outcomes workstreams, including systematic literature reviews, real-world evidence studies, and cost-effectiveness and budget impact models.
Support education of commercial and R&D teams on key access trends and opportunities, contributing insights and materials as needed.
Support the Clinical Development Team (CDT) by helping define market access data needs related to the clinical development plan; represent regional access considerations and advocate for data that supports positive reimbursement across global markets.
Support planning, tracking, and management of market access activities and related discretionary budgets, as applicable, to help ensure spending is managed effectively throughout the year and to plan.
Build expertise in clinical and market access drivers relevant to the therapeutic area and contribute to internal discussions and external insights to inform market access and reimbursement approaches to innovative treatments.
Stay up to date with scientific developments, applying relevant techniques and analyses to support a strong value proposition.
Support incorporation of the patient perspective into market access planning and materials, including recommendations that can help amplify the patient voice in payer engagements, as appropriate.
Support strategic alignment across Regions and Countries: Support an engaged and collaborative Extended Market Access team through strong communication, coordination, sharing of best practices, and co-creation.
Support mapping of reimbursement pathways and funding mechanisms by key geographies to strengthen internal understanding.
To enable timely reimbursement and patient access, support engagements with external decision makers by preparing materials and synthesizing inputs to help reach consensus on evidentiary requirements.
Partner on the design of payer research and support early scientific advice activities, as needed.
Work with pricing colleagues to provide analytical support and perspectives that inform pricing policies.
Support evaluation and modeling of innovative pricing and contracting initiatives and contribute to execution planning.
Support collaboration and alignment across R&D and GCSO functions, including the Clinical Development Team (CDT), Commercial, Medical Affairs, and Global Market Access COE, to enable launch readiness for the brand.

Benefits

Annual performance bonus
Consolidated retirement plan (pension)
Savings plan (401(k))
Long-term incentive program
Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year (or 48/56 hours in CO/WA)
Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period
Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year