Responsibilities

• Own the Immunology strategy for specialty pharmacy, infusion service provider, and affordability support within the broader patient support program.
• Define the strategic role of core and enhanced SP/ISP services across the patient journey, including where differentiated services can improve access, education, adherence, and continuity.
• Translate brand objectives and patient/provider needs into high-level service requirements, experience principles, and decision criteria for SP and ISP partners.
• Partner with IAM and Patient Access to evaluate partner capabilities, channel considerations, and service-model options and to inform strategic recommendations.
• Shape the strategy and evolution of affordability solutions, including copay support, patient assistance programs, and approaches to emerging accumulator/maximizer challenges, in partnership with the Patient Access CoE.
• Ensure SP/ISP and affordability strategies are integrated with hub, nursing, digital, provider, and field-support experiences and support seamless patient hand-offs.
• Provide strategic input to readiness planning, business requirements, performance measures, and governance so implementation teams can operationalize approved service models effectively.
• Use patient, provider, market, and program insights to identify unmet needs, assess service effectiveness, and recommend enhancements to SP/ISP and affordability offerings.
• Partner with Legal, Compliance, Privacy, Procurement, and other stakeholders to ensure strategic concepts are developed within appropriate policy and regulatory guardrails.
• Bring outside-in perspective on specialty distribution, ISP models, affordability trends, and innovative patient-support services to inform future portfolio strategy.

Preferred

• Awareness and understanding of U.S. commercial, legal, regulatory, privacy, and compliance considerations applicable to patient support programs
• Understanding of and/or experience directly working within the Immunology market
• Familiarity with biologic therapies and/or complex specialty patient support programs
• Experience supporting product launch readiness and lifecycle evolution of patient support programs
• Strong understanding of specialty pharmacy, specialty distribution, integrated specialty pharmacy, and patient-support channel models
• Experience shaping affordability programs such as copay assistance, patient assistance programs, or other financial-support solutions
• Experience evaluating vendor or channel capabilities and translating findings into strategic service-model recommendations
• Understanding of payer, accumulator/maximizer, specialty pharmacy, and affordability trends affecting patient access

Benefits

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days.
• More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits.