About this role
Pricing & Market Access Director
General Summary:
The Pricing & Market Access Director is responsible for leading the development and/or execution of Market Access strategies for one or more products, as well as partnering cross-functionally on the Commercial and Development strategies.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for payer strategic planning to support value and access optimization
- Leads development of Market Access strategies and core pricing & access deliverables operating within the Commercial model
- Ensures the payer position is consistently represented to internal cross-functional stakeholders and ensures robust strategic input into commercialization and development decisions
- Partners cross-functionally to ensure robust value proposition and integrated evidence plans are optimized to support market access and reimbursement
- Supports strategies with deep functional knowledge, in-depth market research, environmental data & analogs
- Informs financial forecasts
- Works on the execution of pricing and access strategy, including the localization of access strategy, tactical execution and pricing business cases
- Supports capability building and thought leadership projects that advance knowledge of and readiness for the rapidly evolving payer environment.
- Collaborates closely with HEOR, Pricing & Market Access, Government Affairs and Public Policy, Marketing and Clinical Development / Medical counterparts to ensure value and access optimization
Key Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline
- Strong hands on experience managing pricing and negotiations within Swiss market
- Established local network with key stakeholders and decision makers
- Ability to think strategically and make sound pricing and market access recommendations
- Experience representing company externally
- Strong practical, quantitative and analytical skills combined with a sound understanding of how to successfully apply pricing & reimbursement / HEOR principles to support Vertex
- Outstanding written and oral communication skills, including the ability to effectively write and deliver presentations to professionals at all levels within Vertex
- Relationship building at all levels of the organization and across geographies
- Fluent English and German
- Excellent interpersonal skills to communicate complex concepts and negotiate with others.
Flex Designation: Hybrid-Eligible Or On-Site Eligible
Flex Eligibility Status:
In this Hybrid-Eligible role, you can choose to be designated as:
- Hybrid: work remotely up to two days per week; or select
- On-Site: work five days per week on-site with ad hoc flexibility.
Note: The Flex status for this position is subject to Vertex’s Policy on Flex @ Vertex Program and may be changed at any time.
LI-Hybrid