Vice President, US Market Access Lead - Specialty Care

About the role

This role serves as the single point of accountability between USMAPPS and the Specialty Care Business Unit, owning access strategy, payer marketing, and brand-level contracting and pricing strategy across the full Specialty Care portfolio. The role drives and owns outcomes, integrating all USMAPPS capabilities into one coherent access plan that directly supports the Specialty Care BU President and franchise leads.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a fully integrated brand market access plan for all Specialty Care brands, covering payer marketing, contracting strategy, and pricing strategy in one coherent plan

• Translate portfolio-level access priorities into brand-specific execution plans, ensuring consistency across franchise teams and alignment with enterprise GTN objectives

• Define payer value propositions, messaging, and positioning for Specialty Care brands in partnership with access marketing resources

• Ensure brand-level pricing and contracting strategies optimize net trade sales and gross-to-net outcomes across payer, GPO, and channel

• Define and monitor access performance metrics at the brand and portfolio level, including access quality, access speed, GTN performance, and launch readiness

• Periodically reassess and reallocate brand-level resources across the Specialty Care portfolio based on lifecycle stage, launch timing, and business priority

• Proactively adjust access plans in response to external environment shifts, including IRA drug pricing dynamics, 340B evolution, PBM-payer consolidation, and formulary changes

• Serve as the single point of communication and accountability between USMAPPS and the Specialty Care BU President and franchise leads for all access, contracting strategy, and payer marketing needs

• Represent Specialty Care BU access needs back into USMAPPS leadership, escalating resource gaps, strategic misalignment, or unresolved cross-functional tensions

• Drive a cultural reset within the BU interface toward proactive cross-functional collaboration, strategic ownership mindset, and enterprise-level decision-making

• Own the access chapter of the strategic brand plan for all Specialty Care pipeline assets, ensuring access strategy is fully integrated into brand planning from early lifecycle stages

• Identify and close access readiness gaps, including payer coverage, specialty pharmacy pull-through, reimbursement pathways, and formulary positioning, aligned to brand archetype and launch objectives

• Establish and track launch access KPIs in partnership with Strategic Account Management, brand teams, and customer engagement teams

• Define 3-year market access plans for pipeline assets, incorporating GTN inputs into long-range financial planning

• Coordinate all USMAPPS functional support across access marketing, contracting strategy, pharmacy engagement, Strategic Account Management, and Patient Services before engaging the Specialty Care BU, ensuring the BU receives a single, integrated access perspective

• Maintain clear ownership accountability for access pull-through at the brand level, ensuring contracted access terms are being converted into actual prescribing by coordinating with Strategic Account Management on execution and flagging gaps to BU leadership

• Identify and resolve gaps or misalignment across functional teams early, before escalating to functional leaders or the BU President

• Establish and reinforce ways of working that prevent fragmentation, redundancy, or misaligned seniority across all functions supporting the Specialty Care BU

• Act as a limited and structured interface point for Market Access Operations, primarily on contract execution issues that require brand-level context

• Lead and develop a team aligned to Specialty Care brands and franchise clusters, driving execution through the team while maintaining personal accountability for brand-level access outcomes and deliverables

• Coach and develop team members to operate as strategic owners with clear accountability for outputs, not coordinators or traffic managers

• Partner with Specialty Care BU President and franchise leads to identify strong internal candidates for team roles and pursue external sourcing where internal talent is not available

• Create clear career development pathways within Specialty Care, access vertical to build a sustainable talent pipeline within USMAPPS

• Model Pfizer values and leader behaviors

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required

• 15+ years of experience in the healthcare sector, including demonstrated success in market access, payer strategy, or brand-level access roles

• Deep understanding of the US healthcare environment, including payer dynamics, formulary mechanics, GTN economics, and the distinct access requirements across brand lifecycle stages

• Demonstrated experience developing and executing integrated brand market access plans, including payer marketing, pricing strategy, and contracting strategy

• Prior experience in a brand-facing market access role or as a member of a BU leadership team

• Familiarity with IRA implications, 340B dynamics, and other policy-driven access considerations relevant to a large, diversified pharmaceutical portfolio

Skills

• The ability to influence and collaborate with peers

• The ability to develop and coach others

• The ability to oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact

• The ability to integrate across multiple functional capabilities (access marketing, contracting, account management, patient services) and present a unified access perspective to the BU

• The ability to understand brand P&L dynamics and translate them into access investment and GTN trade-off decisions

• The ability to build trust and drive alignment with senior stakeholders across BU and USMAPPS functions

• The ability to communicate effectively, representing USMAPPS credibly with BU Presidents and franchise leads at the most senior levels

• The ability to lead through change and deliver on business objectives

Benefits

• Comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to support each of life’s moments

• Health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage

• 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution

• Paid vacation, holiday and personal days

• Paid caregiver/parental and medical leave