Director, Market Access Analytics and Enablement

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The Director, Market Access Analytics and Enablement will provide strategic leadership and assume full ownership across all data analytics, enablement tools, performance measurement, and project management activities that support the Americas Market Access Team. In this role, the Director will lead the proactive development and sustained execution of analytics frameworks, dashboards, and operational tools that inform decision-making and accelerate business outcomes.

This individual will lead with urgency and directly oversee and mentor team members in designing and delivering high quality analyses that enable evaluation of medical policy coverage, coding utilization, billing and reimbursement metrics, and overall team effectiveness.

Success in this position requires an opportunity mindset, strong executive presence, demonstrated leadership capabilities, innovative thinking to drive actionable insights and tools, the ability to communicate complex insights clearly across senior and cross-functional stakeholders, and disciplined execution to meet critical deadlines. The Director will need to influence without authority by collaborating extensively with internal partners including Market Access, Field Reimbursement, Global Strategy, HEOR, Marketing, Sales, Product Development, Information Technology, Regulatory, and Medical & Scientific Affairs.  

Contracting oversight and management of consultants that provide key support services to the Americas Market Access Team is expected.

This position reports to the Senior Director of Market Access Americas as a manager of a growing team, is part of the Value and Access Department, and will be fully remote.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

+ Lead and manage, with an opportunity mindset, a growing team within the Americas Market Access organization, providing leadership, coaching, direction, and performance oversight, including project managing key initiatives from end-to-end, ensuring timely delivery of tools and processes to enable business continuity.

+ Assume full ownership of the development, refinement, and implementation of strategy for data analytics and enablement function including: development of market access enablement tools; market insights/trends generation; healthcare coding analyses (diagnosis codes, billing codes, code modifiers, etc.); pricing and fee schedule evaluations; payer coverage dashboards; team dashboards; analytics frameworks; operational tools; and utilization of AI-based tools to inform decision-making and accelerate business outcomes.

+ Utilize Danaher Business Systems (DBS) components including but not limited to Daily Management (DM) metrics, Problem Solving Process (PSP), Bowler (metrics) reporting, and Action Plan (AP) adherence.

+ Drive alignment with the Value & Access function and the broader Cepheid matrix organization, including influencing without authority, to ensure coordinated execution of Americas Market Access initiatives and effective communication with senior and cross functional stakeholders.

+ Contribute to Americas Market Access team strategies, objectives and KPI development through proactive…