Sr. Director

Summary

The job is for a leader in Scholar Rock's Value & Access organization responsible for achieving rapid, appropriate coverage for patients for apitegromab. The position involves leading payer account management and engagement activities, developing value propositions, and recruiting, developing, and leading a team of experienced account directors.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree
• At least 8 years’ experience in US Market Access with a deep understanding of evolving access, coverage, and reimbursement landscape
• Experience and relationships with national and key regional Commercial, Medicaid, and other Government payers
• Proven track record of achieving rapid, broad, and clinically appropriate coverage for medical benefit, rare disease products at launch
• Experience leading payer account teams
• Comprehensive understanding of payer decision making bodies and cycles, processes and procedures (including contracting), and data and reporting

Responsibilities

• Lead all payer account management and engagement activities to achieve rapid, broad, and clinically appropriate access for patients
• In collaboration with the apitegromab Value & Access and broader Commercialization team, develop value proposition, payer account strategy, and supporting materials
• Recruit, develop, and lead a team of experienced account directors with relationships in designated payer accounts (Commercial, Medicaid, and other Government businesses) with focus on the Medical benefit
• Ensure each member of account team has a clear understanding of apitegromab Commercial objectives and a plan on how to help achieve these goals through assigned accounts
• Work with Commercial, Patient Services, Sales, Medical Affairs, Compliance, and other teams to ensure access objectives are met, including pull-through
• Ensure all programs are aligned to Scholar Rock values and remain compliant with regulations
• Lead presence at key access-related events and congresses (e.g., AMCP, PCMA, Asembia, etc)
• Continuously improve Scholar Rock’s payer engagement/partnership model
• Collaborate with Insights and Analytics and Commercial Operations to derive account-level insights and actions; communicate access and coverage performance regularly to internal stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience negotiating agreements with large healthcare systems preferred
• Pre-launch experience at a small, start-up biotechnology company preferred