Global Pricing and Market Access Director

AstraZeneca•Gaithersburg, MD

12h•Remote

About The Position

The Global Pricing and Market Access Director will be responsible for developing and implementing global price policies and strategies. This role involves matrix managing a cross-functional team to support the development of global price and market access strategies, aligning with payer evidence strategies, and revising pricing and market access strategies and value stories as needed to optimize life cycle management opportunities. The position requires driving payer insights for robust price and reimbursement strategies, developing price and market access inputs for forecasts and business cases, and ensuring alignment across the brand portfolio. Additionally, the role involves developing value messages and claims to meet payer needs and monitoring external trends that could influence access strategies.

Requirements

Graduate degree in biomedical science, business, or economics.
Minimum of 4 years experience in pharmaceutical industry or consulting.
Prior oncology therapy area expertise is essential, including oncology launch experience.
Relevant drug development and/or commercialization experience within the pharmaceutical/medical industry.
Knowledge of the needs and expectations of national and regional payers, insurers, and commercial customers in our strategic markets.
Several years of previous project leadership experience in the generation of payer evidence or development/execution of payer commercial strategies (e.g. Health Economics, Market Access, Pricing).
Ability to make reasoned decisions under pressure.
Ability to take people with you and bring the best out of others.
Excellence and precision in communication: credible and persuasive.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with clinicians, pharmacists and payers on evidence-based customer solutions, e.g. through working with local payers in EU or commercial customers in the US.
Experience in a commercial strategy function, e.g. managed markets brand director, business development director, head of pricing/access.
Experience constructing payer value stories and incorporating these into TPPs.
Experience in country or regional pharmaceutical role.

Responsibilities

Develop and implement global price policy and its strategic implementation.
Matrix manage a cross-functional team to support the development of global price and market access strategy.
Align with the payer evidence strategy.
Revise pricing & market access strategies and value stories as needed to optimize the value of life cycle management opportunities.
Drive required payer insights to ensure robust and validated price & reimbursement strategies.
Develop price and market access inputs into forecasts and business cases and ensure assumptions are aligned across the brand portfolio.
Develop value messages and claims, ensuring target product profiles and target claims can meet payer needs.
Monitor ongoing trends and dynamics in the external (access) environment that could influence current and future AZ access strategies.