Senior Policy Lead

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This role is in support of Cencora's global pharma consulting services marketed through our Pharma Lex business.

The Role:

The Senior Director, Health Policy plays an integral role in developing, delivering,and selling data-driven solutions to clients as part of evolving our Reimbursement Policy Analytics offering. At Cencora, we are passionate about helping our clientsanticipatereimbursement challenges and creating targeted reimbursement and health policy solutions that maximize patient access at every stage of the product life cycle. This role will play heavily in thought leadership, businessdevelopmentand strategic and tactical management of project execution.

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Duties & Responsibilities:

• Strong subject matterexpertisein life sciences healthcare policy (eg, Medicare and Medicaid policy and regulations, Inflation Reduction Act, federal budget scoring models, alternative payment models, etc.)

• Primary driver of thought leadership activities and presence for health policy offerings internally and externally and business development subject matter expert and driver of BD opportunities

• Familiarity with key data sources for healthcare analysis (eg, Medicare claims, Medicare Part D data, commercial claims data, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data, Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey data)

• Experience working with patient advocacy and industry groups is preferred

• Quickly recognize and understand clients' business questions; ability toidentifyand connect client market access and HEOR requirement needs to the rest of the business for RFP execution

• Develop data-driven solutions and analysis frameworks that clearly answer those questions

• Execution of contracted work as strategic oversight, providing leadership of the team. Ability to manage projects effectively and efficiently and be flexible enough to shift directions, if needed

• Interpret and summarize results accurately

• Quickly recognize and understand clients' business questions

• Create story-based narratives that articulate how results directly inform product launch strategies or influence policy decision-makers

MANAGEMENT:

• Accomplishes team results by communicating expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, and counseling employees; developing, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, procedures, and productivity standards. No direct line management at initiation of role, but will be a possibility over time

• Creates innovative business expansion and/or new services

• Responsible for lead proposal writing

• Allocates human and financial resources as appropriate toensureobjectivesareaccomplishedwithin scope of project requirements

• Searches and pursues revenue generation opportunities and effectively manages to ensure that new revenue is realized

• Overall responsibility for timeliness, accuracy, and completeness of all services

• Identifies areas for risk

• Fosters proactive, continued quality improvement

• Ensures andmaintainshighest integrity and honesty in all business activities

EDUCATION:

• Graduate degree in public policy, healthcare policy or law, or another related field

• Requires broad experience in fields such as public policy, business administration, sales, marketing, or similar vocationsgenerally obtainedthrough completion of afour year bachelor's degree program or equivalent combination of experience and education.

• Master'sdegree or equivalent experience is preferred.

• Normally requiresdirectly related and progressively responsible experience within healthcare consulting or pharmaceutical, biotechnology or medical device industry with a history of successful achievement in the fields of reimbursement strategies and tactics; tangential experience in market access and/or HEOR a plus.

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EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum of 12+ years relevant healthcare policy and reimbursement experience

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:

• Strong connections with Congress and Pharma

• Previous experience working in DC

• Quantitative analytical skills, including advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and SAS

• Deep understanding of core policy issues relevant to industry, including the Inflation Reduction Act, PBM transparency, 340B,Most Favored Nation (MFN), GENEROUS,etc.

• Robustexpertisein Medicare payment policies, particularly related to pharmaceuticals and associated services, is strongly preferred

• Experience and comfort with existing Medicare and commercial data sets, including but not limited to medical claims, prescription drug claims, hospital charge master data, medical policy data, prescription formulary coverage data

• Experience in a wide range of topics, including coverage, coding, and payment across commercial and public payers,…