Director, Regional Market Access & Launch Strategy

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Cambridge (MA); Remote; USD 245.000 - 265.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is seeking a Director of Regional Access to lead a high-performing regional access organization, driving patient, provider, and payer access for a potentially FDA-approved therapy in a rare endocrine disease.

This field-based role requires extensive launch planning, cross-functional collaboration, and about 50–60% travel. You will shape regional strategies, build and coach the team, and ensure compliant, patient-centered access initiatives across payer and

Qualifikationen

• 10+ years in pharmaceutical, biotech, market access or related commercial roles, including regional leadership.
• Proven experience building, launching, scaling, and leading regional access, reimbursement, patient access, or market access teams.
• Demonstrated ability to recruit, onboard, coach, and develop high-performing regional teams with clear expectations, operating rhythms, KPIs, and accountability measures.
• Experience leading teams through product launch readiness, including building deployment plans, access playbooks, training plans, and cross-functional launch execution processes.
• Deep knowledge of pharmacy benefit access, specialty pharmacy, prior authorization, step therapy, denials and appeals, payer policy, HUB services, and HCP workflows.
• Strong knowledge of regional payers, state Medicaid, IDN and health-system access pathways, institutional formulary processes, EMR workflows, and specialty pharmacy distribution models.
• Track record of partnering across Market Access, Sales, Patient Services, Specialty Pharmacy, Trade, Commercial Operations, Medical, Legal, Compliance, Training, and Analytics.
• Ability to translate complex payer, provider, specialty pharmacy, and patient journey insights into compliant regional strategies and scalable solutions.
• Strong executive presence, communication skills, business acumen, and ability to influence without authority across senior leaders, cross-functional partners, and regional teams

Aufgaben

• Launch readiness and strategy: Build regional access launch readiness plans for a rare disease endocrinology therapy with a pharmacy benefit and specialty pharmacy distribution model.
• Define launch milestones, regional deployment plans, escalation pathways, access playbooks, and operating rhythms.
• Define compliant launch regional access activities, including account readiness planning, disease-state education, and transition planning from launch preparation to post-approval execution.
• Partner with cross-functional teams (Payer National Accounts, Trade, Patient Services, Brand, Sales, Medical, Legal, Compliance, Training) to ensure aligned launch execution.
• Translate payer coverage dynamics, specialty pharmacy requirements, prior authorization criteria, step edits, and patient affordability considerations into compliant regional strategies.
• Recruit, onboard, coach, and develop a Regional Access team responsible for regional execution of patient, provider, and payer access support.
• Establish roles, responsibilities, KPIs, and management processes for the regional access organization.
• Conduct regional rides, coaching sessions, business reviews, and performance assessments to drive consistent execution.
• Create a culture grounded in authenticity, accountability, audacity, curiosity, and engagement while reinforcing compliance and patient-centered problem solving.
• Develop a national execution framework and equip the team to educate customers on payer requirements, POA and appeals pathways, coding, formulary workflows, and patient support resources.
• Identify and escalate access barriers; develop root-cause analyses and scalable national playbooks.
• Represent Regional Access in launch planning, education, and leadership forums; synthesize regional insights into actionable recommendations.
• Develop dashboards, KPIs, case trends, and access metrics with Analytics and Operations.

Kenntnisse

Regional leadership

Launch readiness

Payer access

Cross-functional collaboration

Reimbursement education

Healthcare payer policy

Strategic planning

Executive presence

Team coaching

Jobbeschreibung

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is seeking a Director of Regional Access to lead a high-performing regional access organization, driving patient, provider, and payer access for a potentially FDA-approved therapy in a rare endocrine disease.

This field-based role requires extensive launch planning, cross-functional collaboration, and about 50–60% travel. You will shape regional strategies, build and coach the team, and ensure compliant, patient-centered access initiatives across payer and