Director, Global Value & Access Strategy, povetacicept

Role Summary

Director, Global Value Access & Strategy, povetacicept. Location: Boston, MA (3 days onsite, 2 days remote weekly). The role supports the asset with a primary focus on launch readiness for new indications and lifecycle management, responsible for global price & access strategy and value communications, and contributing to lifecycle strategy and cross-portfolio capability building.

Responsibilities

• Ensure launch readiness for new indication(s):
  • Partner cross-functionally and cross-Regionally to ensure robust, differentiated value proposition and integrated evidence plans to support global market access and value
  • Develop the global pricing and market access strategy, payment models and negotiation approach
  • Lead development of global strategic payer plan and evidence prioritization in the evidence generation plan
  • Drive delivery of unbranded, branded payer value communications and supportive training
• Life-cycle management:
  • Partner cross functionally to shape LCM strategy, including indication sequencing
  • Identify, prioritize and champion evidence required for access enabling trials and value optimization; determine minimum reimbursable profiles
• Accountable for ensuring the market access and payer perspective is reflected in cross-functional strategies (e.g. commercial, product development, regulatory affairs)
• Collaborate closely with HEOR, regional market access, global commercial strategy, clinical development, medical affairs and corporate affairs counterparts to ensure value & access optimization
• Maintain industry awareness and proactively address changes in market trends, competition, product acceptance and new product releases and adjust market access plans accordingly

Qualifications

• 8+ years of direct biotechnology / pharmaceutical industry experience and/or payer experience
• Deep working knowledge of both US and ex-US healthcare systems required; experience in comparable global and/or specialty disease area role considered a plus
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and make sound pricing and market access recommendations
• Entrepreneurial, energetic, dynamic, enthusiastic, decisive, and self-motivated; possesses a sense of urgency with the ability to "make things happen"
• Strong practical, quantitative and analytical skills with understanding of pricing & reimbursement / HEOR principles
• General experience in commercialization and drug development
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively within highly cross-functional teams in a matrix environment
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills; able to write and deliver presentations to professionals at all levels
• Strong relationship-building skills across geographies; team-oriented and reliable
• Demonstrates ethics and alignment with Vertex’s core values

Education

• BA/BS in a field requiring quantitative analysis; advanced degree preferred

Skills

• Strategic pricing and market access
• Global payer communications and evidence generation planning
• Cross-functional collaboration in a matrix organization
• HEOR principles and economic modeling