Associate Director, Portfolio Strategy

Associate Director, Portfolio Contract Strategy

Location:

Wilmington DE

At AstraZeneca, we turn ideas into life changing medicines. Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and partnering with colleagues and customers to make the seemingly impossible a reality. We're focused on the potential of science to address the unmet needs of patients around the world.

The Biopharmaceutical Business Unit (BBU) develops and drives therapeutic area and product strategies that address unmet patient needs globally. We integrate commercial, market access, medical, digital, and corporate functions to drive scientific innovation and commercial excellence in respiratory, cardiovascular, renal, and diabetes disease areas.

This role is basedat

AstraZeneca’sWilmingtonheadquarters and reports to theSr.Director,Portfolio Contract Strategy, CVRM.

Assist in creating and defining contract strategies that include financial analytics and platforms for Brands within the AZ BBU product portfolio for key Market Access customers and business segments and maintain consistency with that strategy as it is implemented. Drive business analytics to support contract strategy activities and partner with Customer Facing account roles, including National & Regional Payer teams, Provider Network teams, and Channel account teams.

This role assists in bringing forward marketplace perspective and pragmatic solutions / analyses to optimize AstraZeneca's net price, access objectives and continued leadership in innovative contracting. This individual will assist in the development of contract and channel strategies that align with Brand Team / Therapeutic Area business strategies for launch and in-line products. The Associate Director of Contract Strategy may partner with customer facing account teams in direct customer engagement around identified key initiatives, build/align, and execute negotiation strategies with customer-facing teams.

This role will also collaborate with a wide variety of internal stakeholders such as Access Strategy, Brand Leadership, Value Strategy and Evidence, Brand and Market Access Finance, Contract Operations, and Legal.

A key deliverable of this role is ensuring all contract strategies and offerings have financial justification based on ROI and sound business judgment and assist in assessing the performance of existing contract strategies & offerings. They are responsible for ensuring the timely and regular re-evaluation of current strategy and deliver segment strategies for their Therapeutic Areas.

• Assistin the development of contract strategies and lead strategies through the applicable approval/governance processes
• Directly partner with customer facing teams around prioritized key initiatives
• Co-develop and execute contracting negotiation strategies
• Coordinate with team of analysts/specialists in operational activities such as rebates, chargebacks, government reporting, contractwritingand process approvals.
• Monitor environment for shifts in trends or behaviors, interpret likely impactand suggest appropriate actionsaroundlife-cycle contracting and pricing considerations.
• Develop deep understanding of competitive market conditions that affect pricing for individual brands, therapeuticareasand overall industry.
• Serves as a resource for Licensing and Business Development in assessing pricing on potential opportunities

• Bachelor’s degree; preferably in a relevant field (Marketing, Science, Economics or Finance)
• 3+ yrs of experience in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry
• Understanding of Market Access and Healthcare delivery systemsas well as the impact of government policies and proposals
• Analytical skills including problem…