Manager, Health Policy & Advocacy

Job Details

Key Duties:

Patient Advocacy

• Support development of advocacy strategy aligned with commercial organizational objectives and within budget.
• Cross functional work and collaboration across all levels of the organization to ensure that patient engagements, partnerships, and advocacy strategy is clearly defined and executed with excellence.
• Identify and execute opportunities to collaborate functional leads on advocacy initiatives and patient engagement.
• Manage program development and execution, including review of materials and project management.
• Support and strengthen existing advocacy partnerships and assist in expanding engagement reach with new stakeholders.
• Communicate internal updates for PR opportunities and corporate communications.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to develop programs to raise awareness of and educate on disease-related topics.
• Serve, as resources dictate, as company presence on advocacy at related meetings and patient engagement events (e.g., walks, meetings, community gatherings).
• Develop and track metrics for engagement activities and financial contributions.
• Build positive stakeholder relations internally and externally and establish active and compliant partnerships with patient organizations and communities.

Health Policy

• Liaises with cross-functional leads to solicit, evaluate, and advocate for policy issues that impact access, communications, and external stakeholders.
• Maintains surveillance of policy developments and legislative tracking and communicates alerts and updates to leadership on timely basis.

• Supports US Policy and Access Strategy to develop internal analysis, education, and generate materials on relevant health policy topics, including but limited to sources of insurance (e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, commercial), drug supply chain and intermediaries (e.g., GPOs, PBMs), healthcare providers (e.g., varying settings of care and practice types; 340B entities), and drug pricing concepts (e.g., WAC, ASP, best price).
• Assists with drafts publications on industry and appropriate medical topics in concert with the medical and policy education focus of the Company and its products.
• Support function to internal analysis of policy matters potentially affecting business.
• Provides relevant policy and government affairs updates for corporate and relevant customer, scientific forums, and investor communications.
• Liaises and communicates with appropriate industry trade organizations to ensure organization’s views are represented fairly and accurately in discussions.
• Participates in engagements with external subject matter experts on policy issues and activities.

Administrative

• Ensure compliance with all legal regulatory and company requirements for scientific communications (publications and medical education materials).
• Manages relevant financial and contractual aspects of assigned projects, including vendor negotiations.
• Contributes to annual budgeting process and manages monthly spending within allocated budget.
• Lead the development and oversight of the patient engagement process, system, and SOPs.
• Supports Executive Director in government affairs administrative functions as needed.
• Supervisory Duties (ES):
• Direct and review the work of outside consultants and stakeholders as required.
• Core Competencies/Behaviors:
• Strong analytic, research, and strategic skills, including familiarity with regulatory and policy materials and process.
• Strong understanding of current pharmaceutical industry, in particular government policy, stakeholder engagement, or market access.
• Knowledge and understanding of pharmaceutical policy, health law, and government affairs landscape.
• Understanding of the approval, coverage, and reimbursement processes for prescription drugs, the 340B program and polices.
• Exceptional writing ability; effective public speaking, planning, presentation, and organizational skills.
• Strong work ethic and ability to produce high-quality work under pressure.
• Strong leadership to envision innovative strategies, including internal patient engagement systems, processes and SOPs.
• Interacts with senior management, employees at all levels, vendors, patient advocacy groups, industry trade associations, governmental agencies, and partners.
• Willingness to travel to meetings in satellite offices and/or conferences or client sites, including policy meetings, as required.