Group Product Director, Precision Medicine, Market Access Marketing VAP

Johnson & Johnson; Horsham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare company seeks a Group Product Director for Precision Medicine, focusing on market access strategies and collaborations with stakeholders. This essential role involves developing treatments and ensuring access to precision medicine solutions, requiring extensive experience in biopharma and strong leadership abilities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in biopharma/diagnostics.
• 5+ years in marketing/access role.
• Oncology/rare disease experience needed.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute US precision medicine access strategy.
• Create updates to payer policy dashboard.
• Engage with key PHDMs for increased access.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Negotiation Skills

Communication Skills

Leadership Skills

Education

Bachelors Degree

Job description

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:

Market Access

Job Sub Function:

Health Economics Market Access

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Description:

We are searching for a Group Product Director, Precision Medicine, Market Access Marketing VAP. The position will be based in Horsham, PA.

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

It is imperative that J&J’s commercial model adapts to accommodate the nearly 50% of the anticipated precision medicine enabled assets launching in the next 5 years. The newly created position of Group Product Director, Precision Medicine, Market Access Marketing VAP is tasked with building internal & external resources, improving understanding of current reimbursement journey and status for precision medicine tests, and engaging with PHDMs such as Lab Benefit Managers.

The Group Product Director, Precision Medicine, Market Access Marketing VAP will have responsibility for designing and executing US precision medicine access strategy in collaboration with key cross-functional stakeholders in the Account Management, Value Access & Pricing (VAP), Precision Medicine CoE, brand, global and RWV&E organizations. Additionally, the candidate should have extensive pharma and diagnostic market access experience in companion and/or complementary Diagnostics (CDx/CoDx), prior customer facing/account management experience and marketing/payer marketing.

The Group Product Director, Precision Medicine, Market Access Marketing, VAP will:

• Create and manage updates to payer policy & coverage dashboard for precision medicine testing associated with JNJ brands

• Conduct primary market research or ad boards with office billing coordinators and labs to determine leakage within the biomarker/NGS reimbursement journey

• Partner with external consultant to develop LBM engagement strategy to accelerate execution

• Assess cost-sharing to inform patient affordability impact

• Update LBM and NGS Testing landscape assessment

• Proactive engagement with key PHDMs in non-payer affiliated LBMs to improve education and support for increased access to precision medicine testing and Support diagnostics coverage and payment policy position development for broader J&J portfolio

• Develop and update of Precision Medicine Value Prop for PHDMs

• Develop coverage and reimbursement visual aids & tools for HCP facing teams across multiple brand teams

• Partner with Account Team organization(s) on roll-out of tools, resources and strategy impacting payer affiliated LBMs and engagement strategy with medical directors in commercial payer accounts to ensure payer policies for testing supports access and reimbursement for JNJ precision medicine products

• Serve as a Core Team member of Precision Medicine CoE tasked with leading the design and implementation of the US Access strategy for various precision medicine products and representing the access priorities

• Partner with V&E to incorporate RWE data illustrating reduced cost and improved timing for clinical decisions when NGS test are administered.

• Obtain insights to inform design of/updates to policies related to repeat testing

Qualifications:

• Required Minimum Educational Requirement: Bachelors Degree

• Required Years of Related Experience: 10+ years of experience in the biopharma/diagnostic industry; 5+ years in a marketing and/or market access role for a biopharma and/or medical device/diagnostic company

• Oncology and/or rare disease experience required

• Prior customer facing or account management experience required

• Demonstrated ability to influence and manage a complex set of internal and external stakeholders is required

• 20 % Travel required (approx. 1-2X per quarter- domestically)

• strong executive presence and leadership skills required

• strong communication and negotiating skills required

• strong analytical skills to understand scientific and financial data, recognize key issues and establish priorities is required

• successful management of agencies and vendors is required

• companion diagnostic experience within pharma is strongly preferred

• prior people management experience preferred

• ability to understand and translate the implications of evolving payer coverage policies is preferred

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

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