Description
The Director, Oncology Market Access Strategy – Access Optimization Lead serves as the enterprise market access leader for assigned oncology brand(s) and indications. This role is responsible for shaping and leading the integrated market access strategy across payer, provider, patient access, pricing and contracting, trade and distribution, and health system channels to maximize brand performance and patient access.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as the market access strategy lead for assigned oncology brand(s), accountable for the integrated access strategy across payer, provider, patient support, pricing/contracting, trade/distribution, and organized customer segments.
- Act as the primary Market Access representative on the Integrated Brand Commercialization Team (IBCT), shaping brand strategy and ensuring access considerations are embedded in core commercial decisions, launch plans, lifecycle planning, and performance discussions.
- Develop and own the near-, mid-, and long-term market access strategy, including strategic choices required to optimize access, brand growth, financial performance, and customer pull-through.
- Lead the development of the brand’s access perspective within the integrated brand plan, annual operating plan, and long-range strategic planning.
- Translate customer, competitor, policy, reimbursement, and market signals into actionable recommendations that evolve the value proposition, evidence needs, strategic priorities, and tactical plan.
- Partner with pricing and contracting, analytics, HEOR, patient experience, account teams, and trade/channel teams to evaluate choiceful tradeoffs across investments, GTN implications, customer strategies, and launch/lifecycle priorities.
- Shape the oncology access journey for the brand, identifying critical barriers and opportunities across coverage, coding, reimbursement, affordability, site of care, channel strategy, and patient support.
- Lead cross-functional alignment around access strategy and ensure the broader market access matrix is coordinated against the most important business priorities.
- Provide clear and timely access guidance to brand and senior leadership on competitive events, reimbursement changes, payer and provider dynamics, organized customer trends, and emerging risks/opportunities.
- Inform the development of customer-facing resources, evidence communication, segment strategies, and field guidance to ensure the market access strategy is translated into meaningful action.
- Support launch readiness and lifecycle optimization for new brands, new indications, and portfolio priorities within oncology.
- Build strong relationships across the organization and serve as a trusted strategic advisor on oncology market access issues.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree
- 5+ years of relevant experience in pharmaceutical/biotech market access, access strategy, payer marketing, reimbursement, pricing/contracting, brand strategy, or related commercial roles
- Experience developing and leading market access strategies for specialty and/or oncology products
- Experience working across key access stakeholders, including payers, providers, health systems, organized customers, and channel partners
- Experience leading cross-functional strategy in a matrixed organization
Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced degree (e.g., MBA, MPH, MS, PharmD)
- Experience in oncology market access
- Experience supporting oncology launches, relaunches, and/or new indication launches
- Strong understanding of oncology reimbursement and access dynamics, including buy-and-bill, specialty pharmacy, specialty distribution, provider economics, and patient support models
- Strong strategic thinking, communication, and influencing skills, including the ability to influence without authority
- Experience with Commercial, Medicare, Medicaid, hospital/IDN/health system, and organized customer strategy
- Experience navigating CMS policy, coding, reimbursement, medical benefit dynamics, and oncology-specific access barriers
- Experience with 340B, site-of-care dynamics, and provider channel strategy
- Demonstrated ability to synthesize quantitative analysis and qualitative insight into strategic recommendations
- Experience making tradeoff decisions across competing initiatives, finite budgets, and GTN/access investment considerations
- Strong executive communication and presentation skills
- Experience managing agencies, third-party vendors, and strategic projects