Director, Value Strategy & Marketing

Thousand Oaks, CA (Remote)

$208K/yr – $282K/yrDirector/Executive9+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and execute the payer value strategy for Rare Disease and Oncology, shaping evidence plans, launch readiness, and cross-functional partnerships.

  • Lead portfolio value strategy and develop customer value stories
  • Build payer resources and AI-enabled workflows to speed insights
  • Align budgets, priorities, and executive communications across the matrix

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead portfolio value strategy across Rare Disease and Oncology, translating brand objectives, payer dynamics, competitive change, and access barriers into clear priorities and actionable strategies.
  • Define differentiated payer value propositions for priority assets and ensure clinical, economic, real-world, and population-level evidence is translated into credible customer value stories.
  • Guide U.S. payer-relevant evidence strategy with HEOR, CfOR, Medical, Brand, and Insights; identify evidence gaps and shape studies intended to defend coverage, improve quality of coverage, and support appropriate patient identification and treatment.
  • Ensure payer and reimbursement considerations are integrated early into launch, indication-expansion, and lifecycle planning, including medical-benefit, pharmacy-benefit, site-of-care, specialty distribution, and utilization-management dynamics.
  • Partner with Market Access and MVPH leadership to shape customer engagement priorities, prepare for high-value payer and health-system discussions, and translate field insights into broader portfolio actions.
  • Partner with Coverage & Pricing to ensure value strategy complements coverage, pricing, contracting, and reimbursement strategies while maintaining clear functional accountability.
  • Oversee development and deployment of payer value resources, including payer customer value aids (CVAs), economic tools, RWE communications, health care economic information (HCEI) and pre-approval information exchange (PIE) resources where appropriate, payer FAQs, training, and customer-specific materials.
  • Lead, coach, and develop two Senior Managers; establish clear portfolio ownership, operating rhythms, and expectations for strategic thinking, cross-functional leadership, and executional excellence.
  • Champion AI-enabled ways of working across Value Strategy & Marketing, using approved AI tools to accelerate insight synthesis, evidence translation, strategic development, content creation, and team productivity.
  • Build AI capability across the team by identifying high-value use cases, encouraging responsible experimentation, sharing best practices, and ensuring adherence to company policies, privacy, compliance, and review requirements.

Requirements

  • Doctorate degree & 4 years of commercial experience OR
  • Master’s degree & 7 years of commercial experience OR
  • Bachelor’s degree & 9 years of commercial experience

Preferred

  • 8+ years of pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry experience, including significant U.S. market access, payer marketing, value strategy, or related Value & Access responsibility.
  • Demonstrated experience developing payer, value, reimbursement, or market access strategies for specialty pharmaceutical products; Rare Disease and/or Oncology experience strongly preferred.
  • People leadership experience with a demonstrated ability to coach, develop, and prioritize work across a high-performing team.
  • Strong understanding of U.S. payer decision making across medical and pharmacy benefits, including medical policy, utilization management, specialty distribution, site of care, and reimbursement for physician-administered therapies.
  • Launch and lifecycle-management experience, including the ability to anticipate future market dynamics and translate them into access implications.
  • Demonstrated ability to synthesize payer insights, clinical evidence, health economic evidence, and real-world data into differentiated value strategies and executive recommendations.
  • Experience influencing evidence-generation priorities and partnering effectively with HEOR, observational research, Medical, Brand, Market Access, and Coverage & Pricing teams.
  • Strong business acumen, strategic judgment, analytical capability, and ability to manage multiple complex workstreams in a matrixed environment.
  • Demonstrated aptitude for generative AI and emerging technologies, with the ability to apply them responsibly to improve strategic thinking, productivity, and organizational effectiveness.
  • Strong executive communication and presentation skills; advanced degree such as MBA, MPH, PharmD, PhD, or another relevant graduate degree preferred.

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