Director, Market Access Strategy, Access Optimization Lead

Director, Market Access Strategy, Access Optimization Lead

Reporting to the Senior Director Market Access Strategy, Access Optimization, this Director is responsible for creating and owning the holistic Market Access (MA) strategies and tactics for all payers, institutional, pricing/contracting, patient services and trade/channel customer segments.

• Create and own near/mid/long term access strategies for brand and therapeutic areas at channel level focused on optimizing access through strategic tradeoffs of resources and activities inclusive of forecast and Gross-to-Net tradeoffs across pricing, payer, provider, patient access, pharmacy and distribution needs.
• Evolve market access strategies over time through monitoring of access environment and competitive landscape and coordinate cross functionally to ensure alignment.
• Drive cross functional access strategy synergies with broader brand strategy at IBCT level inclusive of customer perspective and evolving access and environmental considerations.
• Deliver key access insights to brand leadership cultivated through close collaboration of field facing and in house market access colleagues and reciprocate brand insights to market access partners.
• Own market access component of brand level strategic plans and ops plan, ensuring alignment to brand objectives as well as near/mid/long term market access objectives.
• Lead Market Access focused collaborative efforts with brand, global, finance, and others in support of best‑in‑class launch strategy development for new to market brands and new indications.
• Partner closely with Value Evidence & Outcomes (AKA HEOR) and Access Optimization Marketing, Analytics & Strategy team to ensure value prop and customer materials are in alignment to brand and market access strategies and developed in a timely manner to support organizational needs and potential launches.
• Deliver critical brand and Access Optimization needs to business partners in a timely fashion to ensure value prop, customer material development, and field priorities are in line with brand objectives.
• Develop access journey for brand, highlighting critical access components including pricing/contracting, channel strategy, payer strategy, patient services, enterprise strategy, etc.
• Create and manage insights‑based tactical plans across key customer segments to prioritize efforts that deliver business impact and utilize resources efficiently.
• Partner in the development of the end‑to‑end customer‑facing and multichannel marketing promotional interventions for payers, channel partners, customer‑facing teams (includes account manager promotional materials, value propositions, e‑tactics, leave‑behinds, etc.) – from opportunity identification to training and implementation guides.
• Collaborate in the development of access and customer materials for field use including those related to patient services (HUB), Payers, SGPOs, Population Based Decision Making, etc.
• Partner with brand team and matrix stakeholders to identify brand‑specific opportunities and ensure a clear understanding of the competitive access environment.
• Support insights development including conducting primary market research to support the market access strategy and tactical planning.
• Monitor & synthesize syndicated market research and external issues impacting pharmaceutical delivery and reimbursement including industry trends, public policy, and competitive landscape.
• Support the evolution of the payer value proposition across payer segments including short‑term delivery of in‑market payer promotional tactics and long‑term influencing of evidence generation planning.
• Monitor the external environment and ensure timely stakeholder (both home office and customer‑facing) communications that clearly inform and offer strategic guidance where appropriate in response to competitive market events and changes.
• Partner with cross‑functional Business Unit teams to understand key brand objectives and to ensure market access strategy is properly considered and implemented.

• Bachelor's degree.
• 3+ years’ experience in market access or comparable pharma area with a focus on access…