Senior Manager, US Value Access and Payer Marketing Program Management (on-site Seaport MA)

The businesses of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany•Boston, MA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Work Your Magic with us! Start your next chapter and join EMD Serono. Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us. United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe. This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US. Your Role: The Senior Manager, Operations, US Value & Access Strategic Marketing will execute the tactical and operational components of the access marketing strategy. Manage day-to-day operations, project management, and ensure successful implementation of plans developed by the Head of Value and Access Strategic Marketing. You will work in collaboration Head of Value and Access Strategic Marketing with Brand Marketing, the Access Influencer Management team, Health Economics, Legal, Regulatory, Commercial Analytics, Medical Affairs, Field Sales Management, and Sales Training to ensure development and execution of optimal payer marketing strategies and tactics. Location: Seaport, MA (Hybrid) Travel: Must be willing and able to travel <20%

Requirements

Bachelors’ degree with minimum 5 years’ industry experience or MS degree with 3 years’ experience or PharmD, PHD with 2 years’ experience
Minimum 2 years’ biopharmaceutical commercial or payer operations experience
Minimum 1 years’ experience in market Access function within payer marketing or payer experience
Ability to work and lead collaboratively in cross - functional teams
Must be willing to execute tactics
Strong project management skills
Strong understanding of payer market dynamics and how managed care organizations make decisions across private & public channels
Must have superior analytical ability to analyze current and future landscape and specific contract outcomes at the micro and macro level to make investment recommendations that impact our brands
Ability to translate strategies into measurable tactical programs that have high ROI for our brands
High level of integrity developing compliant strategies and works transparently with legal, regulatory and compliance.
English language fluency
Normal and routine office duties

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree such as MPH, PharmD or MBA
Ability to communicate openly and share information to foster trust while encouraging constructive debate, making informed decisions, and ensuring shared commitment to outcomes.
Demonstrated willingness to take risks and stand up for what is right while prioritizing the needs and experiences of customers and patients in all decisions.
Commitment to setting and reaching ambitious goals and setting high standards while acting in the best interest of the company and taking initiative to drive results.
Uphold ethical standards and being honest in all interactions.
Ability to streamlining processes to focus on what matters and creates impact and acting quickly to adapt to changes.
Demonstrated ability to embrace new ideas, challenge the status quo, and seek innovative solutions while valuing diverse perspectives and treating others with respect and dignity.

Responsibilities

Implement annual market access pull-through strategies and tactical plans.
Manage project timelines, budgets, and vendor relationships.
Support business development activities and new product planning.
Collaborate with internal teams to execute customer engagement and contract strategies.
Provide market feedback and insights to inform strategy.
Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, and company standards.
Coach and develop project teams within access marketing.
Support in-depth strategic analyses of the managed markets landscape for assigned products and provide strategic recommendations to Senior Management based on insights.
Develop strong lines of communication and partnership with key internal leaders to help lead various commercial initiatives
Serve as a strategic partner to assist in the development and execution of Market Access Channel strategies.
Support business development activities and new product planning through landscape analysis, understanding of access drivers and competitors, and evaluation of likely payer response to varying scenarios.
Develop and maintain expert knowledge of the dynamics driving the various managed markets segments and channels including Commercial Managed Care, Medicare, Medicaid, and Health Exchanges.
Partner with Directors of Patient Services and HUB to further connect contract offerings with facilitation of enhanced patient access and process efficiencies.
Monitor the changing payer landscape mergers and acquisitions (industry consolidation), benefit design trends, strategic account trends, medical loss ratios, quality metrics, and the evolution of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and report on impact of market trends and events to EMD Serono customer relationships, programs, and brands.
Provide proactive market feedback to Market Access and cross-functional teams on business trends, competitive updates, and industry issues and opportunities.
Lead, inspire, and engage with passion by modeling EMD Serono behaviors and working with a sense of urgency to achieve organizational goals.
Cultivate an atmosphere of cross-functional collaboration and reciprocal communication that creates a winning environment and inspires all to hold themselves and others accountable for delivering excellence.
Act as Project Leader for business planning activities including national Value and Access Plan of Action (POA) Meetings and regional Market Access field team POAs, and lead National and Regional conference management, planning and execution on behalf of the Value and Access department