Responsibilities

• Develop and manage patient affordability program messaging, content, and communication plans for copay and patient assistance programs, ensuring clear, compliant, and effective support for patients and healthcare providers.
• Develops and implements the action plan related to patient support services, patient assistance program and payer/channel pull-through materials.
• Understands and monitors payer pharmaceutical coverage policies and trends that may impact access and affordability for patients.
• Achieves expense targets for areas of responsibility, leads expense budget tracking, and contributes to budget planning.
• Leads the development of insights, strategies and tactics for reimbursement, and distribution and create coverage dashboards for the US Market Access Strategic Accounts team as well as other access-related sales tools and patient coverage messaging (e.g. pull-through optimization tool).
• Leads the development of payer-facing educational materials for the US Market Access Strategic Accounts team (e.g. Inflation Reduction Act – Medicare, medication adherence).
• Manages Market Access tool (including content creation) and partners with US Commercial Field Team to monitor usage and effectiveness of promotional materials.
• Lead the development, creation, and execution of Market Access content, communications, and engagement materials across all U.S. Market Access functions, partnering closely with, pricing, reimbursement, distribution, trade, patient services, and payer access teams to deliver coordinated access strategies and stakeholder communications. This includes ownership of payer, reimbursement, formulary, coverage, access, and pull-through materials that support Market Access objectives.
• Collaborates with US Marketing to ensure patient support, access, and reimbursement messages are incorporated into promotional materials for the US Commercial Field Team.
• Partners with Medical Affairs and Market Access team to develop payer publications that focus on HEOR (Health Economics and Outcomes Research).

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree is required but experience would be considered in lieu of a degree. MBA preferred.
• At least 7 years of pharmaceutical experience is preferred with at least 5 years of patient support or market access-related experience.
• Blend of both biotech and pharma company experience would be nice to have.
• Strong understanding of the payer landscape, including insurance companies, PBMs, and Market Access.
• Experience in supporting idea generation and managing strategic and tactical execution of high-impact projects.
• Willingness to travel up to 20%.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, highly visible, and dynamic environment.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex concepts to diverse audiences.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret data and make informed decisions.
• Strong project management and problem-solving skills.

Preferred

• MBA preferred.
• Blend of both biotech and pharma company experience would be nice to have.

Benefits

• Nestlé offers performance-based incentives and a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k with company match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits.