Summit Therapeutics
Director, Market Access Payer Accounts - Northeast
Remote-Field (Northeast US) · Director
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About the role
- This is a critical customer-facing role helping to ensure broad access, reimbursement, and patient affordability.
- These accounts include, National/Regional Health Plans, PBMs, Medicare, state Medicaid, VA/DoD, among others.
Responsibilities
- Co-create account-level strategies, tools, and tactics to communicate the product value proposition effectively.
- Collaborate on pricing and contracting strategies, HEOR evidence generation plans, patient support programs, payer marketing initiatives, and account management approaches.
Requirements
- All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact Summit's Talent Acquisition team at recruiting@smmttx.com to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to Summit.
Nice to have
- Summit's core values include integrity, passion for excellence, purposeful urgency, collaboration, and our commitment to people.
- Summit's team is inspired to touch and help change lives through Summit's clinical studies in the field of oncology.
- Summit has multiple global Phase 3 clinical studies, including:
- Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
- Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy compared to pembrolizumab combined with chemotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.
- Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab monotherapy compared to pembrolizumab monotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.
- Colorectal Cancer (CRC)
- Phase 3 clinical study intended to evaluate ivonescimab in combination with chemotherapy compared with bevacizumab plus chemotherapy.
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in business, healthcare, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
- Minimum of 10+ years biotech/pharmaceutical experience
- Minimum of 5+ years of focused account management experience in the oncology access marketplace
- Demonstrated success in engaging with US payers, MACs, PBMs, and IDNs
- Strong understanding of the US healthcare payer/access landscape and regulatory environment
- Excellent strategic thinking, leadership, negotiation, and relationship management skills
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills
- Successful record of achieving and maintaining compliance with all applicable regulatory, legal, and operational rules
- This is the pay for this position
- Pay Transparency
- $197,000 - $246,500 USD
- This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
Compensation
- $197,000 - $246,500 USD
- Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location.
- The total compensation package for this position may also include bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable variable compensation.
Benefits
- Positively influence decision makers, policies, guidelines, and contracts to facilitate timely and appropriate coverage, access and reimbursement for our drug candidates and approved products.
- Implement Brand access strategies and develop account specific plans and assist in the resolution of access/reimbursement issues.
- Work closely with the Medical Affairs field team to support the communication and understanding of our drug candidates and approved products with payers.
- Work closely with the Patient Services team to support the patient journey and resolve coverage issues.
- Assist Regional Sales teams with pull- or sell-through strategies based on payer coverage.
- Lead discussions with internal and external partners to ensure alignment on access, coverage, and reimbursement strategies.
- Stay informed on healthcare industry trends, payer policies, reimbursement processes, and competitive activity.
Company info
- Our employees are truly the heart and soul of our culture, and they are invaluable in shaping our journey toward excellence.
Equal opportunity
- Summit Therapeutics Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and takes pride in creating and maintaining diverse environment.
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