Ipsen Looking for Associate Director, Value & Access Analytics at Cambridge, MA  Full Time

Title:

Associate Director, Value & Access Analytics

Company:

Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals Inc.

Job Description:

The Associate Director will be responsible for leading the Value & Access (V&A) analytics strategy and execution roadmap to support our North American Oncology, Neuroscience and Rare Disease therapeutic areas and business needs. Reporting to the Head of Commercial Information Management & Enablement (CIME), this role will be an individual contributor and partner with Payer, Trade Distribution, V&A, Brand, Finance Reimbursement and Contracting & Pricing teams to deliver integrated analytics & drive competitive advantage and data-driven decision-making process.

He/she will act as a subject matter expert to set best practice(s) methodology in V&A analytics and lead vendor teams to provide advanced analytics support to the V&A organization. He/She will lead and improve the way we utilize channel / 3rd party data and deliver contracting/rebate, sales, payer analytics and insights to Ipsen customers. This role requires a deep understanding of market access data and analytics combined with business acumen and knowledge of the ever-changing healthcare payer environment.

The ideal candidate must be highly collaborative and customer-oriented with the ability to influence at the strategic level, drive data & analytics capabilities to business priorities, and deliver high quality analytical solutions with agility. A high level of proficiency in syndicated and custom, secondary data, for both descriptive and predictive analytics is required. She/He will also define key metrics for success to prove the value of analytics & insights in decision making process.

Main Responsibilities & Expectations

• Provide strategic oversight and guidance to develop and maintain key analytics and reporting capabilities for the Value & Access (V&A) organization
• Lead a proactive and systematic approach to capturing and understanding V&A business needs for standard and ad hoc analytics, reporting and insights generation
• Support V&A teams with analytics in contracting and reimbursement processes
• Lead performance / KPI development and reporting, enabling a through understanding of brand opportunities based on a variety of external data sources.
• Collaborate with V&A teams to investigate and explore ad-hoc data investigations for purposes of uncovering and providing key payer, trade and contracting insights
• Effectively triangulate data sources and collaborate with V&A stakeholders to develop and pressure test assumptions; able to explain assumptions and rational to key stakeholders
• Perform post-deal and launch analytics to evaluate the effectiveness of contracting strategies and recommend adjustments to maximize performance
• Drive and lead predictive analytics (either internally or through a vendor) to predict contracted account performance (e.g. market share changes due to new entrants, loss of contracted account, etc.) to ensure timely decisions could be made by relevant teams
• Deliver effective presentations of findings and recommendations to multiple levels of leadership through various communication channels
• Oversee key supplier relationships for execution of V&A analytics initiatives including contract and budget management, performance management and ad-hoc issue resolution

Knowledge, Abilities & Experiences

• BA/BS in a related field is required; advanced degree is a plus
• 8+ years of relevant experience within pharma/biotech or MedTech
• At least 5 years of commercial business experience, ideally within Market Access data and analytics
• Deep understanding of patient level claims, specialty pharma/distributor, formulary and pricing data assets to enable marker access insights generation
• Understanding of all aspects of Value & Access functions and the integrated roles of each key sub-functions (Payor, Corporate Accounts, Reimbursement, Pricing, GPO, Trade & Distribution, etc.)
• Hands-on Knowledge of the V&A data, ability to design analytics from scratch to suit business needs
• Familiarity in designing, implementing and using an advanced analytical algorithms to support predictive analytics initiatives for V&A function
• Strategic and critical thinking with the ability to engage, build and maintain credibility with V&A Leadership and Brand stakeholders
• Ability to lead without reporting authority and to achieve outcomes in a fast-paced, matrixed, complex environment – leading through influence and deep collaboration across the franchise and internal functions
• Ability to lead and manage vendor resources supporting analytics

IPSEN is an equal opportunity employer that strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to an individual’s race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, mental/physical disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.