Senior Director, Payer Accounts – UnitedHealth Group; EDG

Position: Senior Director, Payer Accounts – United Health Group (EDG-2026003)

Location: All US

Job : 239

# of Openings: 1

About Edgewise Therapeutics:

At Edgewise, we are on a mission to discover new medicines that improve the lives of patients facing serious muscle disease. Our intimate knowledge of muscle biology and biophysics along with our ability to identify and design muscle specific precision small molecules have enabled us to rapidly advance our skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle product candidates into the clinic while also building a robust pre‑clinical pipeline.

With this focus on therapeutics designed to protect and improve muscle health, our goal is to dramatically enhance the lives of people living with progressive muscle disorders.

We have assembled an experienced and highly motivated leadership team with a strong track record in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry to build the leading, global muscle disease biopharmaceutical company. Come join us make a significant difference in the lives of patients!

About the Position:

The Senior Director, Payer Accounts position is an opportunity for an innovative, proactive senior‑level account director to join Edgewise in a period of rapid commercial growth. We are preparing for the launches of sevasemten in rare neuromuscular diseases and EDG‑7500 in serious cardiac muscle diseases. A successful candidate will have deep, partnership‑centric relationships at top corporate/national accounts, possess a track record of engaging across the customer pre‑ and post‑pivotal data and PDUFA, and a demonstrated ability to achieve rapid, high‑quality access with and without contracting.

This role reports into the VP, Market Access.

Essential Job Duties and Functions:

• Understand the patient and treatment journey, and ensure all payer account strategies and initiatives reflect the priorities of the patient, community, and Edgewise
• Lead payer account strategy and management (e.g., relationship building/management, business planning, pre‑ and post‑pivotal and PDUFA customer approach, business/GTN impact, pull‑through) for top corporate accounts, key downstream accounts, other assigned national and regional accounts, and third‑party access influencers (Commercial and Government)
• Partner with Market Access, HEOR, Commercial, Medical, and other cross‑functional teams to adapt the market access strategy for launch products for assigned accounts
• Bring the voice and insights of the customer into key work streams; be an active and strategic thought‑partner to internal teams and initiatives. Understand and contribute to the development of core launch/commercial strategies
• Collaborate with Commercial Operations to measure account performance and communicate situation analysis, approach, and results to internal audiences, including executives
• Support the development of key market access strategies and tactics
• Maintain an up‑to‑date understanding of evolving U.S. market access landscape (e.g., industry consolidation, pricing policy, access‑related regulation, patient affordability, rare disease drug coverage)

• Understand and help define anticipated access for sevasemten and EDG‑7500, including timing and specific criteria that determine quality of coverage
• Adopt a “turn over every stone” approach to access for patient communities. Secure multiple opportunities to educate payers on Edgewise, pipeline, and key products: pre‑ and post‑pivotal data, pre‑ and post‑PDUFA. These engagements should ideally be in‑person but virtual when appropriate
• Effectively communicate the clinical and economic value story of Edgewise products to pharmacy, medical, clinical, and other payer stakeholders, independently and in collaboration with Field HEOR
• Lead and represent Edgewise at market access conferences and congresses
• Upon approval, accountable for securing rapid, high‑quality access at assigned accounts aligned with market access strategy
• Proactively identify innovative ways to improve patient access (e.g., data, partnerships, programs)
• Ensure all interactions and initiatives are professional, ethical, and compliant