What are the responsibilities and job description for the Field Reimbursement Manager-Immunology Biologics-Southeast Territory (Georgia, Alabama, North Florida/Gulf) position at AstraZeneca?
At AstraZeneca, it’s our patients that come first; every decision we make and action we take is centered around how we can better serve them. It’s why we are shaping patient care for the future, working along the whole experience to give hope to billions of lives across the world.
The general purpose of the Field Reimbursement Manager (FRM) role is to minimize reimbursement barriers for patients and providers and, therefore, support access to AstraZeneca products in the Respiratory Biologics therapeutic area. This purpose will be achieved by delivering high-quality interactions with key physicians, accounts, and institutional customers through specialized services. The FRM must have a strategic mindset and complex problem-solving skills to be successful in their role.
FRMs will work directly with and across several different internal departments and cross-functional partners, including Managed Markets, Access Services, Key Accounts, Trade & Channel, as well as Sales & Marketing, supporting accounts experiencing challenging reimbursement, access, and affordability cases in AZ’s Immunology therapeutic area. FRMs are expected to develop and execute ethical and customer-oriented reimbursement strategies. They are expected to demonstrate market expertise in communicating payer criteria/terms and practices, as these relate to assigned AZ products.
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As all other employees, FRMs are fully accountable for compliance with all laws, regulations, and policies that govern the conduct of Astra Zeneca activities.
What you’ll do:
- Partners with the manager, peers, and internal partners in Marketing, Sales, and various Managed Markets and Trade groups to review and contribute to relevant franchise and managed care business plans, tactics, goals, and priorities.
- With appropriate information, identify trends and emerging issues, align resources to address the issue, and communicate resolution to the customer/field in a timely fashion.
- Maintain a high level of Managed Care and related Managed Markets benefit structures, reimbursement mechanisms, legal and regulatory influences, and health management programs.
- Access and influence key business decision-makers
- Maintain an outstanding level of industry awareness and Therapeutic Area knowledge, utilization management techniques, and treatment and reimbursement guidelines.
- Maintain an outstanding level of performance metric analytics.
- Prepare and present provider-level communications.
- Maintain a comprehensive and detailed Territory Plan
Essential for the role
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Minimum of 10 plus years of total business experience in the healthcare or pharmaceutical/biotech industry.
- Minimum of 6 plus years of sales, managed care or reimbursement experience in the healthcare or pharmaceutical/biotech industry
- Ability to travel a minimum of 50-75% (overnight)
Desirable for the role
- MBA or other related graduate-level degree is preferred.
- 8 years of Biotech or Pharmaceutical Sales experience.
- 4 years of experience in the Respiratory Biologics therapeutic area.
- 2 years of Access Services, Reimbursement and/or Managed Markets experience.
- Significant and documented experience with business planning and market analysis.
- Minimum 2 years’ experience with buy & bill physician administered specialty products.
At AstraZeneca, we play a critical role in making our pipeline accessible to patients. We are a research-driven enterprise, always working on something new; new indications and securing access for new medicines to reach even more patients in need. Our knowledge of patients, fused with our forward-looking mindset and innovations, helps us to spot opportunities, get involved earlier and approach access sustainably. We are always finding new ways to explore and innovate, to assess and steer the role we play in the healthcare ecosystem.
Are you ready to take a tailored approach to delivering sustainable access? Are you ready to join a team that is always working towards a future where all people have the right access to healthcare solutions for life-changing treatment and prevention? If so, apply today!
