Director, Market Access & Payer Marketing

Summary

Join Ultragenyx, a biopharmaceutical company focused on rare diseases, as their Market Access Director – Payer Marketing. This remote position, with occasional travel, involves developing reimbursement strategies, collaborating with internal and external teams, creating marketing materials for payers, and assisting the field commercial team. The ideal candidate will possess a scientific degree, extensive market access experience, and a deep understanding of the US healthcare reimbursement system. Ultragenyx offers a competitive salary, annual bonus, equity incentives, and a comprehensive benefits package including generous vacation time, volunteer days, long-term incentives, employee wellbeing benefits, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• Degrees (MS, PhD, MD, MPH, or PharmD) in a scientific discipline
• Minimum of 10 years + of combined experience in market assess marketing & direct market access field work is desired
• Comprehensive knowledge of US healthcare reimbursement system in both commercial and government payers
• Ability to successfully work both within a team and independently
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
• Well-versed in highly technical and scientific languages to communicate effectively with health care professionals, researchers, payers, and other external and internal stakeholders
• Must be willing to Travel: ~50%

Responsibilities

• In collaboration with HEOR, develop reimbursement dossiers and reimbursement/formulary documents by identifying and effectively using internal and external data sources and literature references
• Collaborate with HEOR, medical and external companies in preparing evidence that satisfies payer requirements
• Generate communication/marketing materials and publications for use with payers and other decision makers
• Proactively bring payer analytic and evidence expertise and insight to the cross-functional teams to inform key processes and decision points
• Work collaboratively with North America functions including the commercial field team in helping design tools and resources for field based commercial field team meeting with Pharmacy and Medical Directors
• Assist field commercial team in developing messages and data to regional payers
• Collaborate with commercial field team, medical affairs, patient services to resolve reimbursement issues that may be barriers to drug access
• Assist in field training on developing and delivering payer value messages
• Develop all payer marketing material as needed to raise payer awareness of products

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferably experience in the rare disease and orphan product environment
• Knowledge of specialty pharmacy and wholesalers is desired
• Experience working across an alliance partnership strongly preferred

Benefits

• Generous vacation time and public holidays observed by the company
• Volunteer days
• Long term incentive and Employee stock purchase plans or equivalent offerings
• Employee wellbeing benefits
• Fitness reimbursement
• Tuition sponsoring
• Professional development plans
• Annual bonus
• Equity incentives