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

Chiesi Group•Boston, MA

9d•$184,140 - $225,060•Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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.