Senior Legal Counsel Market Access / Pricing

Bird Partnerships; Connecticut; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Bird Partnerships, based in Connecticut, seeks a Director/Senior Counsel for Government Pricing and Market Access to lead legal actions around pricing, contracting, and payer communications. You will draft documents and provide strategic counsel on federal/state pricing, including 340B, while collaborating with senior leadership across therapeutic areas.

Ideal candidates have 8–10 years of relevant legal experience, admission to at least one state bar, and strong skills in negotiation and

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in federal programs and government pricing.
• Ability to advise on anti-kickback statutes and False Claims Act.
• Strategic legal counsel to senior management on pricing and access.

Responsibilities

• Serve as lead counsel on legal, regulatory, and compliance issues for federal programs and price reporting.
• Counsel Pricing and Market Access on anti-kickback and competition law matters.
• Provide strategic legal advice on product pricing and access with senior leadership.
• Advise on best price, WAC, AMP, ASP, and price reporting at federal and state levels.
• Prepare, review, and negotiate government, payor, and trade agreements.
• Mentor junior staff and manage department personnel.
• Monitor evolving legal and business issues affecting client in national market.

Skills

Regulatory law

Contract negotiation

Leadership

FDA regulatory knowledge

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

State bar admission

Job description

The Director / Senior Counsel , Government Pricing and Market Access

will focus on pricing and contracting, trade, specialty pharmacies and communications with Payers. They will also partner with various therapeutic areas on promotional and scientific communications and other strategic initiatives related to market access, government pricing, including 340B.

Duties include drafting of legal documents and provision of legal counsel. You will have acquired knowledge of law in at least two specialized areas (e.g., FDA Regulatory, commercial, litigation, patents etc.) critical to maintaining business operations and be very knowledgeable about the products, competitors and regulatory environment of the company's businesses.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Serving as lead counsel concerning legal, regulatory, and compliance issues associated with federal programs, government price reporting requirements across the portfolio of medicines.
• Serving as counsel for the Pricing and Market Access functions advising on Anti-Kickback Statute, False Claims Act, and competition law matters.
• Providing strategic legal counsel to senior management on product pricing and access matters, with significant interaction with senior leaders across the organization.
• Provide advice and guidance on issues pertaining to best price, WAC, AMP, ASP, and federal and state price reporting.
• Preparing, reviewing, and negotiating complex government, payor, and trade agreements.
• Influences clients by identifying and communicating to clients risks associated with complex business activities within lawyer's broad understanding of several specialized legal areas
• Manages (either directly or indirectly) administrative assistants, paralegals and other personnel within department. Mentors and/or trains more junior attorneys, paralegals, administrative assistants and/or other personnel within department.
• Strong knowledge of national business environment in which client competes. Keeps current with evolving legal and business issues within lawyer’s broad expertise, promotes corporate policies and proactively monitors client’s business environment.

Ideal Candidate

• At least eight (8) to ten (10) years relevant legal experience; admission to at least one State bar.
• Ability to provide advice and guidance on issues pertaining to best price, WAC, AMP, ASP, and federal and state price reporting.
• Experience partnering with clients by considering immediate business/legal issues in a broader business context and identifying broader business purposes and objectives; proactively applies broad legal expertise to address both the specific business activity and influence the broader business purposes and objectives; developing alternative fact hypotheticals and legal solutions to clarify options and enable the achievement of successful business outcomes.
• Experience taking lead in negotiating on behalf of client to achieve solutions that attain business objectives.