Director, Market Access, Strategic Planning & Initiatives

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor for strategic priorities and organizational effectiveness.
• Translate strategic objectives into measurable operational plans with defined milestones, owners, and success metrics.
• Lead development of annual strategic plans, organizational goals, and business reviews.
• Monitor execution of key initiatives and proactively identify risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies.
• Drive alignment of Market Access priorities with overall commercial and corporate objectives.

Operational Excellence

• Manage the operating cadence of the Market Access organization, including leadership meetings, business reviews, strategic planning sessions, and offsites.
• Cook up and coordinate I&A developed KPIs to monitor organizational performance.
• Cook up resource planning and cross-functional execution across multiple workstreams.

Market Access Communications

• Cook up Market Access presentations, governance updates, business reviews, and leadership communications.
• Cook up organizational communications and ensure consistency of messaging.
• Support executive decision-making through business analysis and synthesis of complex information.

Program & Portfolio Management

• Lead strategic initiatives that span multiple functional areas.
• Establish project governance, timelines, and executive reporting.
• Ensure successful delivery of high-priority organizational objectives.
• Improve organizational processes, meeting effectiveness, and decision quality.
• Support talent initiatives, succession planning, and organizational development.
• Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement.

Required Skills, Experience and Education

• BS/BA degree.
• Minimum of 8-10 years with biopharmaceutical market access experience, including payer, reimbursement, pricing, field team leadership, and established relationships with several key national and regional payers.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed organization.
• Experience supporting executive.
• Experience in one or more of the following: US Payer Marketing, Pricing & Contracting, National Accounts, Patient Services, Channel and Distribution, Market Access Analytics, Commercial Launch Planning.

Preferred Skills

• Master’s degree or higher preferred.
• Minimum of fifteen (15) years of biopharmaceutical market access experience, including payer, reimbursement, pricing & contracting, field team leadership, and established relationships with several key national and regional payers.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.

Pay

The base pay salary range for this full-time position for candidates working onsite at our headquarters in Redwood City, CA is $201,000 - $251,000 USD.