Director / Senior Director - National & Regional Payer Accounts

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We are seeking a Director / Senior Director National & Regional Payer Accounts to lead the execution of market access and reimbursement strategies to support DRL's portfolio as well as future pipeline products.  As a strategic and tactical expert in areas of market access, payer coverage and contract negotiation, you will be a leader with the ability to execute a national and regional market access strategy that creates patient access. You will have primary responsibility for National Accounts and have secondary oversite for resources responsible for account management with Regional Payors and Health Systems. You will develop strong influential relationships with Payor customers including medical and pharmacy departments and be responsible for ensuring financial and reimbursement confidence and communicate payer coverage with all internal stakeholders and sales teams.  You will assist in developing strategic and tactical direction for the team by monitoring customer trends that could impact pipeline of products with Payers and key stakeholders.

The role will report into the Head of Market Access, Biologics for North America 

Responsibilities:

• Lead all account management activities with assigned National Accounts including but not limited to access and reimbursement strategies, formulary coverage, establishing medical policies, contract negotiation and relationship management.
• Shared oversight for Regional Payors and Health Systems resources responsible for account management activities in support of upcoming launches.
• Establish strategic relationships with key stakeholders including Medical and Pharmacy Directors within assigned Accounts and educate all on Dr. Reddy’s biologic portfolio.
• Collaborates with commercial leadership and executive management to develop and refine the company’s Payer access strategy providing input on product offerings, pricing, and contracting.
• Responsible for executing customer-specific market access strategies to assigned National Accounts.
• Demonstrate knowledge and experience in Medicare Part A-D, Medicaid, and commercial payer policies, reimbursement process, health policy, areas of coverage and payment.
• Develop and implement contract strategies that create reimbursement access & coverage with Payors while protecting ASP and the GTN.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders on product and customer strategies to support brand value propositions and secure market access/formulary acceptance of DRL products.
• Collaborate with the cross-functional field team to develop and implement strategies around reimbursement, and product/HCP pull-through within assigned accounts.
• Provide leadership and development to internal and external matrix teams to support strong relationships with National Accounts.
• Develop senior level relationships and thought leader advocacy within assigned accounts.
• Attend key organizational meetings and conferences such as PCMA, AMCP and Asembia.
• Maintain open communication throughout the organization, especially regarding cross region and cross functional payer customer efforts.
• Review and analyze product performance and communicate payer account performance broadly with key internal stakeholders.

Educational qualification: Bachelor's degree required; MBA preferred

Minimum work experience: At least 10+ years of direct US Payer Account management experience. 

Five years’ experience managing Biologics products and medical benefit drugs

Skills & Attributes:

• Demonstrated skills in business planning and payer strategy development with strong problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated negotiation skills and financial acumen required to manage complex customer engagements (Pre-information exchange) and contractual agreements.
• Seasoned National Accounts leader with deep industry relationships.
• Successful product launch experience in the US required with a preference for specialty drug launches.
• In-depth knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturer compliance requirements, product reimbursement and product access.
• Demonstrated experience working with HUB, co-pay, and other patient service providers.
• Strong communicator with the ability to influence others.
• Experience with Commercial Brand Planning process, able to translate brand disease state and business drivers into payer programs.
• Ability to translate and compile data into comprehensive and functional reports.
• Strong leadership and teamwork skills with demonstrated skills working cross functionally to gain alignment and improve business performance.
• Highly organized and detail oriented, excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to travel as required for customer meetings, conferences, and internal meetings up to 50%

The US Biologics team is a new division within Dr. Reddy’s, an established 40-year pharma company with global success and with multiple biosimilars and a rare disease innovative biologic in our product development pipeline. This is an exciting time to join an established, enthusiastic, experienced, innovative, growing team with a robust pipeline and expected to deliver multiple successful commercial product launches in the next 10 years. Passionate about people and transformative medicines? Deeply motivated by delivering good health? Come build our team together!   

Our Work Culture

Ask any employee at Dr. Reddy’s why they come to work every day and they’ll say, because Good Health Can’t Wait. This is our credo as well as the guiding principle behind all our actions. We see healthcare solutions not only as scientific formulations, but as a means to help patients lead healthier lives, and we’re always attuned to the new and the next to empower people to stay fit. And to do this, we foster a culture of empathy and dynamism. People are at the core of our journey over the last few decades. They have been supported by an enabling environment that buoys individual ability while fostering teamwork and shared success. We believe that when people with diverse skills are bound together by a common purpose and value system, they can make magic.

Equal Opportunity Employer

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.

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