Associate Director, Oncology Global Market Access

Job Description

At our company, our Oncology team is dedicated to delivering breakthrough innovations that extend and improve the lives of cancer patients worldwide. Our team of forward-thinking individuals achieve this through an unwavering commitment to support accessibility to medicine, providing new therapeutic solutions, and collaborating with governments and payers to ensure that people who need medicines have access to them. Our focus is on innovation and launch execution excellence; we translate breakthrough science into innovative medicines that help people with cancer across the globe.

Position Description:

• Lead the access development input of oncology pan tumor initiatives for the oncology portfolio with cross functional input

• Support Access Directors in the implementation of Global Market Access Strategies for lifecycle management indications for future Oncology brands.

• In collaboration with Market Research, manage the payer landscape/pricing research portfolio of activities.

• Lead Annual Profit Planning, one plan process for Global Oncology Market Access Pricing Teams Pan tumor activities including the team operational budgeting.

• In collaboration with Project Managers, manage operations for Payer Value Tool development, ensuring quality and deadline adherence.

• Monitor Global Oncology market access/pricing/reimbursement trends including any policy initiatives to reshape existing market access/pricing/reimbursement constructs.

• Support Access Directors in the coordination and development of Affordability solutions for future Oncology brands

• Support Access Directors in providing strategic input into country launch sequencing and LCM

• Support the development androle out of prioritization planning tools from a market access perspective.

• Support Access Directors in providing strategic market access input and support for regional and local market access teams.

• Manage the Reimbursement Tracker and ensure latest reimbursement statuses are up to date.

• Lead Planning, Implementation, and Execution of Global Oncology Market Access/Pricing/Reimbursement global and regional meetings and workshops

Position Location: Rahway, NJ (Hybrid work model is combination of in-office and work from home ability US based)

Position Qualifications:

Education Minimum Requirement:

• Bachelor's Degree (BA/BS)

• MBA preferred

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in market access, marketing, market research, pricing/reimbursement, outcomes research or managed markets

• Experience successfully leading cross functional matrix teams

• Proven success working within large and complex strategic initiatives

• Strong project management and implementation/operational skills

• Knowledgeable about product development and commercialization process

• Understanding of the payer environment and perspectives preferred

• Strong verbal and written communications skills

• Strong commercial orientation and business acumen

• Strategic thinking and integration skills

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Oncology Experience

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:R233028