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Associate Director, Regional Accounts (CVS Vertical) – Pacific North (Utah, Mont

Takeda, Agawam, MA, United States


Job Description About the role:

Be the point of accountability to deliver on Takeda's strategic intent of “Partner for Access” in a geography covering priority accounts and select non-priority accounts. Responsible for all books of business - Commercial, Medicare, State Medicaid and Managed Medicaid

Gain, protect and improve profitable access to Takeda's products

Deliver Takeda's partnership aspiration to priority accounts

Engage payers in discussions around Takeda's broad portfolio (small molecule, specialty, rare and orphan products)

Be the “Face of Managed Markets” within Takeda by serving as the main point of contact for market access related topics with internal partners across all Business Units

Work directly with local matrix colleagues to identify market access trends, opportunities/issues and drive pull through across the geography

Communicate access changes and local impact to maximize wins and mitigate losses

How you will contribute:

Drive for results

Secure and maintain appropriate access for Takeda brands on formulary and/or written medical policy with positioning focused on profitable access

Understand account priorities - build and execute on strategic account plans to deliver on Takeda strategies for access

Optimize payer opportunities by utilizing available resources (volume/ claims analytics, reimbursement data, etc.) at the product and payer level

Negotiate contracts and meet revenue/rebate objectives vs. budget

Build and present business cases for contracting with direct accounts and for accounts with strategic partnership opportunities

Influence downstream clients to adopt favorable access from PBMs and create demand by influencing PBMs to model and provide favorable access to Takeda brands.

Establish and maintain customer relationships/enhance customer equity

Develop and maintain customer relationships with decision-makers and influencers across multiple departments - uncover account needs to identify high potential opportunities for partnerships within the account

Maintain knowledge of payor/PBM economics: understand key issues and how they shift given the changing US healthcare landscape

Ensure Takeda builds relationships with key contacts including strategic and appropriate presence of Takeda colleagues from Medical, Strategic Partnerships, HEOR, etc.

Cross functional engagement

Collaborate with internal stakeholders to support payer account and brand strategy to include Market Access and Channel Strategy, Contracts & Pricing, Payer & Pricing Analytics, Government Affairs, Medical Affairs, Patient Services/Field Reimbursement, State Government Affairs, Public Policy

Quarterback all account interactions and initiatives to include Medical Affairs, HEOR, Managed Markets Strategic Partnerships, Executive Exchanges, etc.

Collaborate with sales teams to identify market access opportunities and drive pull through of access wins across the geography - give strategic guidance to minimize access losses and continue to drive market demand

Key Outputs

Relationships with customers that are beyond transactional and across multiple departments

Strategic account plans that are aligned cross-functionally and grounded in Takeda's Guiding Principles – Patients, Trust, Reputation, Business

Increased sales pull through and purposeful matrix collaboration

Rebates and discounts within agreed levels

Improved and/or maintained appropriate formulary placement / medical policy criteria increasing/maintaining patient access

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

Required:

BS/BA degree

3+ years of previous leadership (1st or 2nd line) or payer account management experience

Broad portfolio experience across multiple therapeutic with the ability to manage multiple therapeutic areas across regional PBM's and Payers

Preferred:

Experience in specialty/rare disease markets (e.g., sales, brand and/or payer marketing, field reimbursement, patient services, specialty pharmacy)

In depth understanding of the commercial, Medicare, and PBM business and regional decision making process

EEO Statement Takeda is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, status as a Vietnam era veteran, special disabled veteran, or other protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws, and any other characteristic protected by law.

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