Access Analytics & Insights Associate Director

Role Summary

Access Analytics & Insights Associate Director leads sophisticated analyses, develops financial models, and generates insights to address strategic questions, business cases and government policy changes for a portfolio of commercial assets.

Responsibilities

• Builds, improves, and manages best-in-class models (i.e; GTN forecast) for commercial assets in the Vertex portfolio
• Generates insights and leads complex analyses to address strategic questions, business cases, government policy changes in the industry and innovative reimbursement approaches such as value-based agreements throughout product lifecycle
• Provides a high degree of support for the monthly and annual forecasting process, focusing on the current year and the following year, and project net revenue by modeling numerous underlying GTN drivers, ensuring quality of output and recommendations, as well as timeliness and business relevance of decision support deliverables
• Delivers robust quantitative forecast assessments of managed care segment discount mix with clear articulation of the key drivers, sensitivities, risks, and opportunities and materials for quarterly earnings calls
• Provides support for the annual long-range planning (LRP) process, which plays a key role in strategic and tactical planning. The LRP process requires substantial cross-functional collaboration to collect and integrate inputs, across all current and future markets
• Integrates relevant pricing and utilization data and information from various sources and databases to develop business case analysis, reporting, scorecards, etc.
• Works collaboratively with stakeholders including but not limited to Market Access, Public Affairs, Commercial Legal, US Sales & Marketing, Global Pricing & Market Access, FP&A, Commercial Sales Operations and Forecasting, Accounting, etc. to ensure transparency and collaboration across key decisions

Knowledge And Skills

• Prior experience in developing short and long term commercial forecasts, GTN models, pricing and contracting break-even analysis
• Excellent working knowledge of the evolving pricing & reimbursement dynamics and health system environment for specialty, rare and transforms therapies, such as cell and gene therapy
• Track record of producing insights and analysis based on Government Pricing (i.e; Medicaid, Medicare, 340B) data sets and communicating impacts and sensitivity analysis to senior management
• Demonstrated understanding of contracting with PBMs, trade & distribution partners and strategies for value-driven pricing and reimbursements
• Working knowledge and familiarity of syndicated Market Access databases (IQVIA, MMIT etc.)
• Exposure and understanding of financial systems (such as Oracle, Hyperion, SAP etc.)
• Experienced in complex Excel modeling and executing on PowerPoint presentations for senior management
• Proficient in analyzing large data sets such as transactional or claims data, using a statistical analysis software package (e.g., SAS or equivalent) or SQL interface
• Strong analytical and business acumen: intellectual curiosity, motivation, and ability to structure problems, diagnose issues and triangulate with multiple approaches while keeping sight of the ‚Äúbig picture‚Äù
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to influence and collaborate with a diverse stakeholder community to achieve actionable and timely results, through establishing strong and sustainable relationships

Education

• Bachelor‚Äôs degree in a quantitative discipline required (e.g., Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Finance).
• Typically requires 8 years of progressive experience in forecasting, market access or finance or the equivalent combination of education and experience