Senior Strategic Pricing and Contracting Advisory Manager

Location: Plainsboro

About the Department The Finance & Operations department brings insights and intelligence to inform decision making & drives digitalization and business solutions to attain NNI goals. Finance & Operations works closely across the organization to guide enterprise-wide resource allocations, investment choices, drive core operations and develop insights to drive growth and operational excellence across the value chain while innovating for future capabilities.

Our focus on innovation ensures we're constantly building future capabilities. We're responsible for regulating accounting, upholding workplace safety, managing our supply chain and sampling, supporting technological and data innovation, maintaining our facilities and assuring the integrity and completeness of all business transactions. At Novo Nordisk, you will have the opportunity to build a career in a global business environment. We encourage our employees to make the most of their talent, and we reward hard work and dedication with opportunities for continuous learning and personal development.

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The Position The Strategic Pricing and Contracting (SPC) Advisory is a Center of Excellence for Scenario Planning and Modeling.  The Advisory is led by a Director and structured to act as a hub, bringing together cross-functional teams such as Strategy and Innovation, Mature Business Unit, Market Access Account Directors and SPC Account Leads.  The increased consolidation and complexity of GPO/PBMs have created a need for additional resources to ensure our strategy is on course for national formularies and their downstream clients.  

This individual will be responsible for supporting and optimizing approved strategies across Commercial and Medicare channels and customers with the designated SPC Account Lead, as well as identifying current market trends or signals that may call for reevaluation of our strategic direction.

Relationships The position reports to the Director, Strategic Pricing and Contracting - Advisory. The individual will partner and work closely with a number of internal and external functions within NNI including;
Brand Teams; VP, PCOR;
Director, Pricing and Market Access Insights;
Sr. Director, Strategic Pricing and Contracting;
Government Pricing Team;
Market Access (VP, Directors and Account Executives);
Pricing Committee and to a lesser degree Forecasting;
Health Economics; FP&A;
Legal;
Commercial Insights and Analytics.

Essential FunctionsADVISORY – Acts as a Center of Excellence for Scenario Planning and Modeling, provides continuous feedback loop to Strategy and Innovation, National Account Teams and others (Pricing Committee, Brand Marketing, etc.)Ensures approved pricing and contracting strategies are executed and optimized across customers in the channel and for national formularies and downstream clients

Supports collaboration meetings with Strategy team, where SPC and S&I align on requests for information, scenario modelling and other ad hoc analysis

Collaborates closely with SPC Leadership Team to provide additional insights and guidance from the Advisory Scenario Planning, acts as backup to Director, Strategic Pricing and Contracting – Advisory Enables SPC reporting of contracted price concessions

Supports maintaining and updating NAO Pricing and Contracting SOPsBuilds trusting, collaborative relationships and alliances with others, inside and outside of the organization

Demonstrates knowledge of internal business operations and applies this knowledge to analyses, processes and deliverables

Manages the development and implementation deal evaluation process to quantify the profitability of new/existing contracts for in-line products

Structures all offers with respect to the development of financial analytics and profitability metrics

Supports preparation of all Pricing Committee business cases and financial analyses related to Scenario Planning Facilitates the deal evaluation process to support implementation of Market Access Strategy and Innovation Participates in pre-Pricing Committee meetings and leads the review of financial impact scenarios, as necessary

Analyzes the impact on pricing decisions on ARP/profitability

Ensures all Terms & Conditions align with anticipated deal structure to support strategy and identified scenarios

Partners and works closely with the Director, Strategic Pricing and Contracting, Strategy Directors and Account Directors/Executives to finalize all proposals for key…