What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Global Market Access Ophthalmology position at Merck?
Job Description
Our company has an exciting and growing Ophthalmology pipeline, reinforcing our position as a sustainable innovation engine for the coming decade. Our Global Market Access (GMAx) organization is driven by a passion to save and improve lives through ensuring sustainable access to our medicines and vaccines at a price reflective of their value. We work collaboratively across the enterprise, and with regional and local market teams, to deliver the development and implementation of integrated access strategies, excellence in pricing strategy and execution, and shaping of the external access landscape. We drive sustainable patient access through innovation in patient access models and solutions.
The Director, Global Market Access, Ophthalmology will play a leadership role in developing and executing an integrated global market access, pricing and reimbursement strategy for our ophthalmology product. In this role, the Director will lead the development and execution of global market access strategy, payer value proposition, pricing strategy, and payer stakeholder communication tools in collaboration with Commercial, R&D, Value and Implementation, Medical Affairs, Policy, Communications and regional and country teams. This role will report to the Executive Director, Global Market Access, Infectious Disease and Ophthalmology.
Responsibilities :
- Develop global payer value proposition and access strategy for our ophthalmology product, ensuring access considerations are integrated into global access plans and taking informed positions related to price, value and affordability challenges at the appropriate time of product development and launch.
- Partner closely with the cross functional team including marketing and Product Development Teams (PDTs), (ex. clinical, CORE and medical affairs), regional and country teams to ensure patient access objectives and strategy are linked to clinical development, commercial and value evidence plans.
- Synthesize and communicate payer customer insights to inform current and future access strategy, including access opportunities and risks by country archetype. This includes conducting payer market research and analysis of payer landscape and competition.
- Co-lead with V&I the 4th hurdle framework assessments to inform access strategy and evidence generation plans.
- Develop global pricing strategy, product value scenarios and negotiation strategies in support of Global, Regional, Country plans.
- Collaborate with Regional access, pricing and affordability solutions teams within GMAx to inform access strategy development.
- Provide access assumptions into business development assessments on an ad-hoc basis.
- Collaborate with Policy colleagues in the assessment of and development of action plan to shape the value frameworks and other policies impacting value assessment.
- Lead the development of value communication resources, including payer value deck and other access resources.
Position Qualifications :
Preferred Experience and Skills :
Education Minimum Requirement :
Travel : Yes, 10-20% of the time.
Work Location : Rahway, NJ or Upper Gwynedd, PA (Hybrid).
Employee Status : Regular.
Relocation : Domestic / International.
VISA Sponsorship : Yes.
Travel Requirements : 10%.
Flexible Work Arrangements : Not Applicable.
Shift : Not Indicated.
Valid Driving License : No.
Hazardous Material(s) : N / A.
Job Posting End Date : 03 / 8 / 2025.
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