Associate Director, Pricing and Contracting

Role Summary

Associate Director, Pricing and Contracting at Intellia Therapeutics, Inc. supports and executes the operations of pricing, contracting, and market access strategies as we bring CRISPR-based therapies to market. This role involves launch readiness and post-launch operations, including pricing and contracting material development, contract development and tracking, revenue management operations, and state price transparency reporting. Collaboration across Finance, HEOR, Trade and Accounts, Forecasting, Commercial Operations, and Legal is required.

Responsibilities

• Pricing and Contracting Material Development and Workflow Management:
  • Support the development of site-of-care materials related to letter of medical necessity, letter of appeals, billing and coding, ordering instructions, and related office training.
  • Develop trade-related materials to support pricing and distribution network information.
  • Develop pricing and contracting materials to support payer account teams.
  • Manage all of the above through the medical, legal and promotional review process to finalize materials.
  • Develop other materials as necessary (e.g. training).
• Contract Development, Review And Tracking:
  • Support business case development with National Account Directors including analytical modeling to assess the financial impact of potential offers and develop supporting offer justification.
  • Communicate results of offer modeling to vet the potential offer within the Market Access team.
  • Review and provide guidance and recommendations on contract language for business applicability and patient access to support negotiations.
  • Support negotiation and red-lining processes internally and externally.
  • Track and report on contract lifecycle status.
  • Perform lookback analysis to measure contract performance.
• Revenue Management Operations:
  • Work with a 3rd party vendor for development of all aspects of revenue management operations pre-launch.
  • Develop SOPs and policies for revenue management operations for GP methodology, Rebate and Fee Processing, FSS, Gross-to-Net.
  • Support development of these SOPs and policies as they translate to outsourced services for calculating GP.
  • Maintain and update the related SOPs as business operations require.
  • Work with a 3rd party vendor for management of revenue management operations pre- and post-launch including: system configuration for government programs; Government Price Reporting; contract set-up and related payment processing; review of claims data; verification of off-invoice discounts; adjudication processes; and resolving discrepancies.
• State Price Transparency Reporting:
  • Develop SOPs and policies for State Price Transparency Reporting and manage related requirements.
  • Create and submit required state submissions per quarterly and annual reporting needs.
  • Review impacts of price on State Price Transparency reporting requirements and manage state registrations and fee payments.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of traditional and innovative contracting strategies, including outcomes- and value-based approaches.
• Knowledge and experience with GP and related programs for Medicaid, Medicare, Federal Supply Schedule/Tricare and 340B/PHS, including regulatory understanding and impact on business.
• High proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint).
• Experience developing analytical models to analyze contract offers and strategies.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills; ability to influence senior-level decision-making.
• Experience launching novel therapies with medical benefit outpatient reimbursement.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment and adapt to commercialization of gene editing therapies.
• Bachelor‚Äôs degree required; advanced degree in Business, Economics, Finance or related field preferred.
• 6-8+ years in pharmaceutical or biotech, with at least 5 years in pricing, market access, or contracting, preferably in specialty or gene therapies.

Education

• Bachelor‚Äôs degree required; advanced degree preferred.