Director, Global Market Access and Pricing, Immunology

Role Summary

Director, Global Market Access and Pricing, Immunology. Location: Cambridge, MA.

Responsibilities

• Leads the assessment of various internal assets and potential target indications, in collaboration with the therapeutic global cross-functional partners
• Leads the development of the access and pricing strategy of internal assets, based on relevant scenarios developed in collaboration with New Product Planning
• Responsible for the timely development a clear Early Market Access Roadmap for all assets under scope to ensure the organization has the right level of understanding and preparedness to support decision making and market preparation
• Responsible for the timely execution of all core activities pertaining to the following:
  • Foundational knowledge of disease and payer unmet needs (through conducting secondary and primary payer research where relevant)
  • Early market access success factors / risks identification
  • Fact-based early potential assessments (with price/access assumptions for forecasting) and scenario development
  • Informed market access input to clinical development plan & pivotal trial design
  • Early market access plan
  • Early payer value proposition
  • Payer evidence plan and IEGP support, in partnership with HEVA, to ensure it supports the Payer Value proposition
• As part of the GPT and early commercialization team:
  • Contributes to the formulation and execution of the asset(s) strategy and ensure key payer/ market access considerations are made explicit and are addressed as appropriate (target patient population, clinical endpoints, comparator, etc)
  • Provides the relevant support for governance meetings (ie, TARC, DWG, IDCC, SPM, etc)
• Coordinates the relevant Market Access GLocal subteams, ensuring relevant input and engagement from priority markets
• Maintain a high level of knowledge with regards to the scientific, clinical, strategic pricing and commercial developments relevant to the assets under scope
• Develop and maintain a robust understanding of relevant pricing and reimbursement criteria used by payers in key markets to make informed decisions about payer strategy, plans and tactics
• Improves early market access capabilities across the pipeline through methodology & standard improvement in areas such as value assessment, strategic pricing, robust and early insights generation, scenario development, risk management

Education

• Master‚Äôs degree in science, business, or related discipline with minimum 7 years of relevant professional experience with an accomplished track record in market access

Skills

• Strong analytical skills, including pricing, with ability to translate clinical information and messages into clear payer access strategies / recommendations
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills, including the ability to write and deliver presentations to professionals at all levels within Sanofi in a straightforward way
• Strong leadership and demonstrated relationship building; ability to work well in a cross-functional team and build coalition
• Understanding of the evolution of the market access landscape and implications for the business
• Demonstrated business acumen, analytical and financial skills to evaluate investment strategies, and comfortable with product forecast and P&L, quantitative skills