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Director, Policy & Access, ICON/Japan

Bristol Myers Squibb
Full-time
Remote friendly (Princeton, NJ)
$228,000 USD yearly
Sales, Marketing, and Market Access
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Position Summary

The successful candidate for this position will play a pivotal role in formulating and executing a strategy to shape the access policy environment to ensure patients have access to BMS medicines...An enthusiastic access or policy professional, they will be motivated by the goal of improving the lives of patients through enhancing access to medicines and contributing to the wider health policy environment...They will engage with policymakers, stakeholders and partners with the ultimate aim of fostering a pro-innovation environment and optimizing patient access to innovative therapies...Reporting to the Global Policy and Access Lead, they will lead a team of talented individuals with responsibilities spanning the access policy environment and BMS key areas of therapeutic focus including oncology, hematology, immunology and cardiovascular disease...

Key Responsibilities

  • Prepare, champion and execute activities to shape the ICON / Japan access policy environment to support patient access to BMS medicines.
  • Develop specific strategies and activities to shape how national and EU level HTA bodies, assess medicines, advocating for processes and methods that support timely access to BMS medicines.
  • Monitor, engage and shape policies that impact the price of BMS medicines in EU/ICON regions (including International Reference Pricing), horizon scanning external trends in the policy environment to elevate policy risks and opportunities to the BMS Global Policy council.
  • Drive BMS external engagement and positioning on efficient and sustainable Health expenditure policies, monitoring cost containment initiatives and working with market colleagues to proactively engage with the political debate, legislation and national policies.
  • Work with commercial, medical and market access leaders to proactively identify policy levers and barriers in the access environment that