Associate Director, Market Access

Job Description

Position will be responsible for the development of above-brand segment strategies and tactics related to Integrated Account Management customer segments, specifically 340B/government lives, GPO, and Specialty Pharmacy. The incumbent will support the customer facing account teams and OCAR and payer/brand marketing. This role will serve as an expert on segment trends, customer needs, and business opportunities. This position ensures that business decisions and contract strategies incorporate the perspectives and impact that our customer’s business and financial POV (e.g. actuarial, budget-orientation, business strategies) may have on product access.

The position will be reporting directly to Executive Director of IAM Strategic Insights group and may be worked from UG/HQ or hybrid remote.

Responsibilities include:

• Address strategic questions as part of in-depth assessment of customer segment (market segmentation, leverage points and gaps/opportunities) to address current and future market evolution

• Provide input into brand/payer marketing teams for them to incorporate segment trends, customer point of view and related implications into planning and strategy

• Monitors the US Healthcare environment related to Payer segments to understand how our pricing & contracting decisions may impact future affordability, access and utilization of our products. Serve as expert on segment-specific trends, related business models (e.g., dollar flow), and “voice of the customer’. Informs and educates internal stakeholders on trends.

• Support above-brand segment engagement strategies and associated resources for Integrated Account Management customer-facing teams; work closely with IAM Leadership and Point Directors for feedback and insight on approaches

• Work closely with promotion points in the development of above-brand resources and information tools (presentations, coaching guides, etc.)

• Develops or oversees development of decision support (analytics, tools, reports) to incorporate actuarial perspectives and other customer financial points of view into business decision support

• Manages our company relationship with outside actuarial and consulting services that improve and maintain ties to trends in these areas for major customer segments.

Education Minimum Requirement:

• Required: BA/BS Degree

• Preferred: MBA or other advanced degree

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum of five (5) years combined marketing, marketing/sales support or account management/sales; Finance, Market Analytics, Actuarial Science, Population Health Economics, Global Market Access, Managed Markets, Healthcare Economics/Finance, Contract Management, Pricing, or related functions

• Strong analytic background, with experience helping to frame and support important business decisions

• Strong, demonstrated verbal and written communication skills

• Demonstrated capability to think strategically

• Ability to learn quickly and to assess a variety of scenarios, strategically and operationally

• Strong project management and demonstrated experience and ability to manage cross functional teams effectively as well as ability to manage external experts (consultants, actuaries)

• Understanding of macro US healthcare trends and stakeholders

• Strong proactive leadership skills and ability to collaborate across the organization

• Ability to influence without authority

• Commitment to compliance

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Experience with pricing, contracting and reimbursement in US, including knowledge of rules and regulations, contract management and execution, contract performance evaluation

• Understanding of key US customers (payer, channel, provider), especially the financial considerations and business models that drug assessment and coverage decisions. Well-versed in underlying trends in healthcare reimbursement, payment, and coverage in the US

• Works well with customers and customer facing teams with a mindset of improving our overall account management approach in these areas

• Experience across both medical benefit and pharmaceutical benefit models for drug coverage and reimbursement

Our Human Health Division maintains a “patient first, profits later” ideology. The organization is comprised of sales, marketing, market access, digital analytics and commercial professionals who are passionate about their role in bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide.

Who we are …

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for …

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Requisition ID:R228743