Associate Director, Contract Strategy- Neuropsychiatry Franchise
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About This Role:
As an Associate Director, Contract & Prescription to Dose Strategy, you will be pivotal in advancing market access, payer contracting, and dosing optimization strategies for our groundbreaking postpartum therapeutic. Your expertise will guide the creation and execution of contracting approaches with payers and PBMs, alongside spearheading Rx-to-dose strategies to enhance patient experience, uptake, and outcomes. This role demands a deep understanding of pharmaceutical contracting combined with clinical dosing dynamics, health economics, and the specific needs of women's health populations. This position offers the exciting chance to lead access strategies from inception, joining a team committed to innovation, collaboration, and patient-centric values as we deliver transformative therapies to patients.
What You'll Do:
Contract Strategy & Market Access
Develop and execute national and regional contracting strategies across commercial, government, and specialty pharmacy channels.
Monitor competitive landscape and assess contracting trends in women's health and specialty therapeutics.
Rx-to-Dose Strategy
Lead development of strategies that optimize the patient journey from prescription to appropriate dosing, with emphasis on postpartum clinical needs.
Collaborate with medical affairs and HEOR to align dosing strategy with real-world evidence, safety, and outcomes data.
Identify barriers to appropriate prescribing and dosing (e.g., coverage gaps, step edits, patient dynamics) and recommend solutions.
Partner with commercial distribution and patient support teams to ensure dosing education, patient experience, and provider resources are effectively implemented.
Cross-Functional Leadership
Serve as the subject matter expert for contract and dosing strategies, advising senior leadership on market dynamics.
Collaborate with sales, marketing, medical, and patient services to integrate access and dosing strategies into brand planning.
Support forecasting, scenario planning, and process improvement for the postpartum drug.
Who You Are:
You are an innovative thinker with a passion for transforming patient access to therapies. Your experience in market access and contract strategies empowers you to navigate complex payer dynamics and implement solutions that enhance patient outcomes. You thrive in collaborative environments, bringing together diverse teams to achieve shared goals. Your strong analytical and communication skills enable you to craft strategies that resonate with stakeholders and drive meaningful change in women's health.
Required Skills:
Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree (MBA, MPH, PharmD, or related field) preferred.
7+ years of experience in pharmaceutical market access, contracting, pricing, or related commercial functions.
Deep understanding of payer dynamics, provider networks, and reimbursement models within specialty or women's health markets.
Experience developing Rx-to-dose or patient access strategies for specialty products preferred.
Strong analytical, negotiation, and communication skills.
Ability to work in a fast-paced, evolving environment and lead cross-functional initiatives.
Preferred Skills:
Experience launching or managing products with complex Rx to dose pathways.
Strategic thinker who can operate both at the tactical and enterprise level.
High level of comfort working in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
Experience with controlled substances.
Additional Information
Base salary offered is determined through an analytical approach utilizing a combination of factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills & experience, job location, and internal equity.
Regular employees are eligible to receive both short term and long-term incentives, including cash bonus and equity incentive opportunities, designed to reward recent achievements and recognize your future potential based on individual, business unit and company performance.
In addition to compensation, Biogen offers a full and highly competitive range of benefits designed to support our employees' and their families physical, financial, emotional, and social well-being; including, but not limited to:
- Medical, Dental, Vision, & Life insurances
- Fitness & Wellness programs including a fitness reimbursement
- Short- and Long-Term Disability insurance
- A minimum of 15 days of paid vacation and an additional end-of-year shutdown time off (Dec 26-Dec 31)
- Up to 12 company paid holidays + 3 paid days off for Personal Significance
- 80 hours of sick time per calendar year
- Paid Maternity and Parental Leave benefit
- 401(k) program participation with company matched contributions
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Tuition reimbursement of up to $10,000 per calendar year
- Employee Resource Groups participation
Why Biogen?
We are a global team with a commitment to excellence, and a pioneering spirit. As a mid-sized biotechnology company, we provide the stability and resources of a well-established business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning, growth, and expanding their skills. Above all, we work together to deliver life-changing medicines, with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.
At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired. Read on to learn more about our DE&I efforts.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.
- Location:
- Cambridge, MA
- Job Type:
- FullTime
- Category:
- Biotechnology
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