Senior Director, Market Access

Key Responsibilities:
- Partner directly with the SVP of Market Access to shape and refine U.S. access strategy.
- Own and drive high-priority components of pricing, payer positioning, and access execution—personally and with limited support.
- Challenge conventional approaches and bring forward differentiated strategies grounded in real-world payer behavior.
- Lead core elements of U.S. payer strategy, including positioning, coverage objectives, and contracting approach in highly managed, rebate-driven markets.
- Anticipate aggressive payer tactics (step edits, exclusions, reauthorization criteria) and design pragmatic, executable solutions for a small biotech.
- Engage directly with payer stakeholders and translate insights into actionable strategy.
- Develop clear, compelling payer value narratives that differentiate in crowded dermatology markets.
- Create workable outcomes contracting options that augment brand position.
- Translate clinical and economic evidence into practical tools that drive coverage decisions.
- Partner with HEOR and medical to ensure evidence generation is focused, efficient, and tied to access impact.
- Drive launch readiness activities, including payer engagement, distribution strategy input, and patient access solutions.
- Build key deliverables such as payer materials, access assumptions, and strategy frameworks.
- Partner with Insights and Analytics to create actionable dashboards for field team deployment.
- Bring urgency and accountability to cross-functional teams.
- Apply dermatology and immunology market knowledge to anticipate competitor and payer behavior; adapt quickly to changing conditions.
- Continuously refine strategy based on real-time insights.

Qualifications:
- 10+ years of U.S. market access experience within biopharma, including experience in a small company.
- Proven success driving meaningful components of access strategy in lean or resource-constrained environments.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and making decisions with imperfect information.
- Immunology experience required; dermatology experience strongly preferred.
- Experience in highly competitive, rebate-driven therapeutic categories required.
- Launch experience strongly preferred.
- Experience operating in small, agile organizations with limited infrastructure.
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills; ability to influence without authority.
- Agile, solutions-oriented leader with a strong bias for action.
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree (MBA, PharmD, PhD, MPH) preferred.

Benefits (if explicitly stated):
- Health insurance premiums paid at 90% for employee, 80% for dependents
- 401k match
- Free access to Genentech Bus & Ferry Share program
- $100 monthly cell phone stipend
- Unlimited PTO
- Free onsite gym and a kitchen stocked with snacks and drinks
- Stock option grants and annual bonus program

Location / Logistics:
- Based in South San Francisco; local candidates (onsite Tues–Thurs) preferred; may consider nation-wide candidates willing to travel regularly.