Market Head, Great Lakes

argenx SE; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 236,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive programs

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

argenx SE seeks a dynamic leader to own the local market strategy for the United States, driving multi-therapeutic execution across neurology, rheumatology, and related areas. You will align cross-functional teams, manage market access initiatives, and sharpen engagement with providers and payors.

The role requires a strategic, data-driven leader who can translate market insights into actionable tactics, while navigating a complex regulatory and reimbursement landscape.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in multi-therapeutic areas.
• Strong track record in driving growth and balancing commercial with patient dynamics.
• Experience with disease management and infusion/injection therapies.

Responsibilities

• Lead holistic local market business planning and execution.
• Define local KPIs aligned with national metrics and guidelines.
• Integrate multiple therapeutic areas into a unified local market strategy.
• Identify new market opportunities, partnerships, and revenue streams.
• Champion innovation to accelerate patient access and provider engagement.
• Ensure adherence to legal, regulatory, and ethical standards.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic planning

Negotiation

Communication

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA preferred

Tools

Microsoft Office

VEEVA

Job description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Local market business planning and execution — Lead holistic local market business planning, including conducting market assessment, setting goals and priorities, tailoring field deployment plans across roles, current and future indications and therapeutic areas.
• Define local KPIs (e.g., new patients on therapy vs total patients on therapy) in line with nationally defined metrics and guidelines.
• Integrate multiple therapeutic areas into a single local market strategy, ensuring Neuro and Rheumatology execution are both supported, as well as any future indications.
• Identify new market opportunities, partnerships, growth levers, and revenue streams.
• Identify innovative approaches to accelerate patient access and strengthen provider engagement.
• Champion innovation to drive business growth.
• Ensure adherence to legal, regulatory, and ethical standards, Risk Management and Compliance.

Customer experience

• Build customer relationship with top/senior customers (e.g., IDN leaders, regional payers and providers) in coordination with TBMs, FRMs, TLLs, SAMs, MSLs and Market Access account managers.
• Ensure coordinated, high quality customer experience across all touchpoints and cross-functional interactions within the local market.
• Address local market barriers by mobilizing the right functions to problem‑solve together.
• Champion a differentiated customer experience that positions argenx as a trusted partner across healthcare providers, patients and market stakeholders.

Cross Functional market team leadership and community leadership

• Orchestrate all cross‑functional field roles across the market, leveraging influence and enterprise leadership to ensure aligned priorities, coordinated customer engagement and accountability for collective outcomes.
• Provide market level input and feedback on cross‑functional contributions, while functional coaching remains with discipline leaders.
• Serve on Indication Strategy Teams, ensuring bi‑directional connection between local market insights and national strategy while serving as the local cross‑functional lead for aligned indications.
• Acts as the connective hub between cross‑functional leaders, balancing enterprise priorities with local market realities.
• Responsible for successful geographical execution of customer engagement.
• Identifying innovative solutions, based on market dynamics.
• Contribute to the MH community to share learnings and best practices and supporting capability building across markets.
• Responsible for delivering holistic strategic execution across cross functional teams and provide feedback to leaders in the context of the local market team performance.
• Foster team work and collaborative culture, champion deployment of and role model argenx ways or working, by empowering teams to get things done, creating channels to ensure frontline voices are heard, being entrepreneurial and customer‑centric, executing with urgency, acting as co‑owners of the business.

Therapeutic Expertise

Review and adapt business plans as needed to respond to changing market conditions. Analyze market trends, competitor activities, and industry dynamics to inform strategic decisions.

Education, Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelors degree required.
• Advanced Degree, MBA preferred.
• Minimum 15+ years of progressive experience as a business leader with broad multi‑therapeutic area expertise (e.g., neurology, hematology, rheumatology, immunology, dermatology, endocrinology etc.).
• Strong track record of driving business growth, achieving financial targets, with the ability to balance commercial performance with broader patient and market dynamics.
• Track record of delivering sales success for rare disease products.
• Customer‑centric mindset and successful track record of effective engagement and relationship building across diverse customer types and internal and external stakeholders.
• Cross TA, portfolio‑oriented mindset.
• Experience with disease management and management of systematic treatments (infusions/injections).
• Demonstrated, successful experience in working in strong cross‑functional environments, including navigating and partnering with internal cross‑functional leaders, and non‑commercial functions such as Market Access, Medical Affairs, and HUB/Patient Support teams.
• Experience in biologics and buy and bill customers.
• In depth experience with local healthcare ecosystem landscape and dynamics, US Healthcare and payor landscape, including consumer types, their business models and evolving dynamics.
• Effective leader and collaborator on cross‑functional teams with a variety of technical expertise and backgrounds with strong clinical, scientific and business acumen.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving and decision‑making abilities, including the ability to prioritize and manage complexity across multiple customer types and therapeutic areas.
• Fluency in translating market research and data‑driven insights into actionable strategic initiatives.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and VEEVA.
• Capable of working in an ambiguous environment undergoing transformation.
• Passionate about leadership and coaching with comfort in engaging in a culture of holistic feedback.

Flexible to travel based on business needs (up to 80 percent). You will have to live within the market; relocation benefits are not provided. #LI-Remote

For applicants in the United States: The annual base salary hiring range for this position is $236,000.00 - $324,500.00 USD. This range reflects our good faith estimate at the time of posting. Individual compensation is determined using objective, inclusive, and job‑related criteria such as relevant experience, skills, demonstrated competencies and internal equity. This means actual pay may differ from the posted range when justified by these factors. Because market conditions evolve, pay ranges are reviewed regularly and may be adjusted to remain aligned with external benchmarks.

This job is eligible to participate in our short‑term and long‑term incentive programs, subject to the terms and conditions of those plans and applicable policies. It also includes a comprehensive benefits package, including but not limited to retirement savings plans, health benefits and other benefits subject to the terms of the applicable plans and program guidelines.

Equal Opportunity

At argenx, all applicants are welcomed in an inclusive environment. They will receive equal consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics. argenx is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

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