Associate Director, Market Access Marketing and Strategy at Jazz Pharmaceuticals | San Diego, CA | $172K/yr – $258K/yr

Jazz Pharmaceuticals

Associate Director, Market Access Marketing and Strategy

San Diego, CA (Remote)

$172K/yr – $258K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive market access marketing and payer-focused messaging across functions to align with brand strategy and strategic plans.

Must-have: 7+ years in pharma/biotech, with patient services or managed markets marketing experience.
Standout: Demonstrated cross-functional influence, vendor leadership, and MLR coordination.

Job Description

Responsibilities

Lead execution of all market access marketing resources and messaging across all market access functions, ensuring tactical delivery aligns with core job responsibilities.
Support development and execution of short- and long-term Market Access strategies across functions.
Implement strategies and tactics supporting brand and access goals to optimize payer, channel, and patient access for assigned products.
Serve as a strategic partner to the Director of Market Access Marketing, shaping commercial brand strategy and driving alignment between brand marketing and market access priorities.
Collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure Market Access strategies and tactics are intentionally incorporated early in the brand planning cycle, providing clear input on shaping pre-launch and in-line brand performance.
Partner with Market Access Directors and SMEs to help prepare for evolving access dynamics such as legislative changes, competitive shifts, 340B developments, and updates in distribution models.
Work with cross-functional leaders to incorporate integrated market access strategies into the franchise’s three-year plan and annual tactical plan, aligning with corporate and franchise objectives.
Partner with Market Access functions to ensure strategies and tactics align with corporate and franchise objectives within the franchise’s three-year strategic and annual tactical plans.
Partner across Market Access functions—Market Access Marketing, Pricing/Contracting & Reimbursement, Channel Distribution & Trade Relations, Patient Access Services, Payer Field Teams, Payer Value & Outcomes, and Market Access Analytics & Insights—to support the execution of cohesive and integrated strategies.
Continuously monitor and assess effectiveness of Market Access strategies.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical device industry.
Minimum 4 years of experience in patient services, payer account management, or managed markets marketing (preferred).
Experience leading core marketing processes (brand planning, insights generation, value proposition development, promotional campaign development).
Demonstrated success influencing cross‑functional teams and senior stakeholders.
Strong written and verbal communication skills; exceptional project management capability.
Proven record of success in working with cross-functional teams; demonstrated ability to successfully influence multiple levels of an organization, both internally and externally
Proven vendor and agency leadership experience.
Strong strategic thinking, problem‑solving, and decision‑making skills.
Experience managing budgets and forecasting.
Experience in Epilepsy or Movement Disorders (preferred).

Preferred

Experience in Epilepsy or Movement Disorders (preferred).
Customer‑facing experience (preferred).

Benefits

medical, dental and vision insurance
401k retirement savings plan
flexible paid vacation
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Jazz Pharmaceuticals

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Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc (Nasdaq: JAZZ), is a global biopharmaceutical company whose purpose is to innovate to transform the lives of patients and their families. We are focused on developing life-changing medicines for people with serious diseases—often with limited or no options—so they can live their lives more fully. By transforming biopharmaceutical discoveries into novel medicines, we are working to give people around the world the opportunity to redefine what’s possible – to make the “small wins” big again. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, Jazz Pharmaceuticals has a significant corporate presence in Palo Alto, CA and Philadelphia, PA and in England in London, Oxford and Cambridge, with manufacturing facilities in Ireland, England and Italy. We maintain a highly collaborative culture where employees focus on how they can be successful and accomplish positive results by exemplifying the company’s core values: integrity, collaboration, passion, innovation and the pursuit of excellence. Together, we are experts, analysts, specialists, advocates, scientists and professionals all with diverse backgrounds and perspectives. Working together, we are proud to support patients, innovate and bring new medicines to patients with critical unmet needs. Please see our website at www.jazzpharma.com for more information. For information on recruitment, please visit https://careers.jazzpharma.com/. For guidelines on engaging with Jazz on social media, please visit https://bit.ly/2OaMOuq.

Founded in 2003

Dublin 4, County Dublin, IRL

3.6K employees (220 in marketing)

www.jazzpharma.com

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