Head of Corporate Accounts

Takeda; Agawam (MA); Hybrid; USD 212,000 - 333,000; Full time

Job summary

Takeda seeks a Senior Director of Corporate Accounts to develop an integrated account strategy, ensuring patient access to Takeda’s portfolio in the US. You will lead cross-functional teams, shape go-to-market pricing and market access strategies, and influence financial planning for inline and pipeline products.

You will manage relationships with major payers, including decision-makers at the C-Suite level, and drive access strategies across internal functions to optimize formulary positioning

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 10+ years in managed care/pharma industry preferred.
• 3+ years calling on payer/PBM accounts and designing multi-product contracts.
• Strong strategic account management, planning, execution, and negotiation skills.
• Deep knowledge of payor/PBM economics and US healthcare landscape.
• Pharma knowledge across prescribing, regulation, supply chain, and managed care.
• Consultative selling with stakeholder needs analysis and program design.
• Ability to translate analytics into actionable account strategies.
• Robust business planning for multiple accounts and cross-team alignment.
• Ability to negotiate agreements under changing managed markets.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain high-level C-Suite/B2B relationships with key payer accounts.
• Lead cross-functional teams to meet account goals and crafting contracting strategies.
• Develop programs and contracts for patient access, including value-based arrangements.
• Support sales pull-through with data-driven insights and business cases.
• Collaborate with regions, legal, medical, HEOR and franchise heads for access strategies.

Skills

C-Suite relationships

Strategic planning

Cross-functional leadership

Negotiation

Market access strategy

Account management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Job description

Job Description

Join Takeda as Head of Corporate Accounts reporting to the VP, Head of Payer Accounts. As a Senior Director of Corporate Accounts, you will be responsible for developing an integrated account strategy, ensuring patients have appropriate access to the entire portfolio of Takeda products within the US Business Unit. You will be responsible for implementing and being an integral part in the development of Takeda’s market access product strategy working with cross-functional leadership from internal and external stakeholders. Work cross-functionally to help develop go-to-market pipeline product pricing and market access strategies. You will be responsible for providing customer insights and leveraging environmental shifts to strategically provide inputs that directly shape Takeda’s financial planning process for in-line and pipeline products. You will address the needs of decision-makers at UHC/Optum/Emisar; lead a complex cross-functional team to ensure appropriate input from other Takeda teams (e.g., medical, marketing, contracts & pricing, legal, etc.), and work with the regional account team to ensure sales pull-through. Ensure C-Suite executives from Takeda and payer accounts are being connected.

How you will contribute:

• Establish and maintain, high-level C-Suite/B2B customer relationships
  • Support strategic plans with defined tactics and objectives to move payer decisions in a direction that continues to open access for the appropriate patients
  • Gaining C-Suite payer insights on pipeline products to help shape the pricing and reimbursement strategy
  • Navigate partner organizations to ensure that Takeda is building relationships with all key stakeholders, including creating opportunities for other Takeda functions to proactively engage account counterparts, including medical, HEOR, etc.
  • Assess competitive market landscape and opportunities for improved or expanded market penetration and adoption
• Lead a cross-functional team to deliver account goals
  • Collaborate with Senior Takeda leadership, contracting, analytics, and medical partners to deliver account goals
  • Collaborate across all relevant business units within the organization to establish contracting strategies and plans aligned with the managed care access goals of the overall corporate strategy
  • Work with Takeda’s Government Affairs team to understand changes to policy and develop appropriate strategies for their accounts
  • Collaborate with Takeda Business Unit/Franchise Heads to educate on access and coverage for Takeda products in addition to helping resolve unique reimbursement challenges that may arise
• Develop programs for the account, and contract for patient access
  • Identify and monitor new or evolving market dynamics and impact to customer systems and provide input internally for prioritizing coverage for optimal access. Ensure Takeda formulary positioning and meet overall access objectives
  • Develop and continuously improve innovative strategic programs and contracts, including value-based and partnership agreements to meet the account and Takeda’s needs
  • Negotiate and optimize contracts to meet formulary access, revenue and GTN objectives
• Support sales pull-through
  • Review data (sales, trends, comparison etc.) to identify pull-through opportunities
  • Develop (and align) business cases (including tactics, budgets, KPIs) for investment based on clear pull-through assumptions
  • Work with regional account managers and sales to execute pull-through plans and adjust strategy as needed

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree Required
• Preferred--10+ years in managed care and/or pharmaceutical industry
• Preferred--minimum of 3 years’ experience calling on payer/PBM accounts and designing/negotiating multi-product, large contractual arrangements
• Strategic account management skillset with extensive experience in strategictactical planning, execution and negotiation skills with proven track record of success
• Detailed knowledge of payor/PBM economics: understanding key issues and how these shift given changing US healthcare landscape
• In-depth pharma knowledge: including prescribing, regulations, supply chain, managed care, sales and legal
• Consultative selling: ability to identify emerging stakeholder needs and to problem-solve innovative ways (programs, contracts etc.) for Takeda to help meet those needs
• Clear understanding of analytics: ability to develop strategies from analytical insights to drive account performance and ability to “ask the right questions” of analytical resources
• Business planning: develop a robust and challenging business plan for multiple accounts and align Takeda stakeholders against delivery
• Ability to skillfully communicate and negotiate successful agreements despite challenging situations with both internal and external customers, while working within an ever-changing managed markets, payer, and corporate environment
• Possess strong leadership, business acumen and ability to manage multiple priorities, processes, timelines and expectations of multiple stakeholder groups. Inspire and lead innovation and synergies across teams to maximize team productivity and outcomes in support of overall portfolio
• Strong work ethic and the ability to foster a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement and operational excellence. Demonstrable ‘passion’ for ensuring effective communications with all internal and external stakeholders leading to highly productive, collaborative and efficient relationships.
• Travel Requirement-25-50% Travel, with some international travel

More about us:

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.

Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

This position is currently classified as "remote" in accordance with Takeda's Hybrid and Remote Work policy.

Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. We are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices.

For Location:

Massachusetts - Virtual

U.S. Base Salary Range:

$212,000.00 - $333,190.00

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EEO Statement

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Locations

Massachusetts - Virtual

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Job Exempt

Yes