Associate Director, Patient Support Program Strategy

North Wales, PA (Hybrid)

$142K/yr – $224K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end affordability and adherence programs by turning patient insights into prioritized improvements, coordinating cross-functional implementation, and driving data-driven performance across channels and lifecycle stages.

  • Affordability & Adherence Strategy: Translate insights into prioritized program enhancements to optimize patient experience and retention.
  • Data, Measurement, and Performance Management: Define KPIs and dashboards, integrate data sources, and translate insights into actions that improve affordability, adherence, and persistence.
  • Enterprise Collaboration & Journey Integration: Coordinate across functions to integrate the program into the real-world ecosystem and deliver coordinated omnichannel touchpoints.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Affordability & Adherence Strategy: Translate patient insights into prioritized program enhancements to optimize patient experience and retention.
  • Program Leadership & Governance: Own end-to-end affordability- and adherence-related decisions and lead cross-functional execution and post-launch optimization.
  • Data, Measurement, and Performance Management: Define KPIs and dashboards, integrate data sources, and translate insights into actions that improve affordability, adherence, and persistence.
  • Enterprise Collaboration & Journey Integration: Collaborate across Marketing, Patient Experience, Market Access, Regulatory, Legal/Compliance, Medical Affairs, Privacy, Data Strategy, and partners to ensure seamless real-world integration and channel coordination.
  • Vendor Leadership & Execution: Oversee vendors and contracts, manage SLAs, performance, and budget stewardship for affordability and adherence initiatives.
  • Governance, Compliance, and Risk Management: Ensure programs comply with FDA, HIPAA, privacy, and other regulations, embedding guardrails for speed with governance.
  • Omnichannel Engagement: Design and execute an integrated omnichannel strategy delivering timely, relevant patient touchpoints across channels.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent; MBA or equivalent preferred
  • Direct relevant experience in patient affordability and/or adherence/retention programs
  • 5+ years designing, scaling, or optimizing such programs with measurable outcomes
  • Knowledge of specialty pharmacy, hub operations, reimbursement pathways, and distribution ecosystem
  • Strategic thinking, problem solving, analytical and planning skills
  • Cross-functional influence and collaboration; ability to align senior stakeholders
  • Data-driven decision-making and executive-ready storytelling with data
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred

  • MBA or equivalent preferred
  • Experience with omnichannel marketing and integration of digital and non-digital channels related to affordability and adherence
  • Awareness of US commercial and regulatory requirements
  • Understanding of Immunology market
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