Associate Director/Director, Payer Marketing
Required skills
- Payer Marketing
- Market Access
- PBM
- Health plan
- Healthcare policy
- CMS guidance
- Medicare Part D
- Medicaid coverage
- Commercial market regulations
- Utilization management
Nice to have
- CNS product launch
Role summary
Axsome Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company focused on CNS conditions, seeks an Associate Director/Director, Payer Marketing. This role is crucial for ensuring patient access to innovative medicines by developing and executing payer marketing strategies. Responsibilities include analyzing healthcare policy, developing value propositions, supporting pricing strategies, and collaborating cross-functionally with Market Access, Brand Marketing, Legal, Compliance, and HEOR teams. The position requires a Bachelor's degree (MBA preferred), 8-12 years of pharmaceutical industry experience, and 6-10 years in Payer Marketing or related Market Access activities. Strong understanding of the US healthcare market, policy analysis, and project management skills are essential. This role is based in New York City with a hybrid onsite requirement.
Axsome Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company leading a new era in the treatment of central nervous system (CNS) conditions. We deliver scientific breakthroughs by identifying critical gaps in care and develop differentiated products with a focus on novel mechanisms of action that enable meaningful advancements in patient outcomes. Our industry-leading neuroscience portfolio includes FDA-approved treatments for major depressive disorder, agitation associated with dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease, excessive daytime sleepiness associated with narcolepsy and obstructive sleep apnea, and migraine, as well as multiple novel product candidates addressing a broad range of serious neurological and psychiatric conditions that impact over 150 million people in the United States. Together, we are on a mission to solve some of the brain’s biggest problems so patients and their loved ones can flourish. For more information, please visit us at www.axsome.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
About This Role
Axsome Therapeutics is seeking an Associate Director/Director, Payer Marketing to drive Payer Marketing efforts and to ensure that Axsome’s products are represented effectively and appropriately to payer decision makers. The Associate Director/Director, Payer Marketing will play a critical role in ensuring that patients have affordable access to the Company’s innovative medicines. This position will collaborate cross functionally with the rest of the Market Access organization, Brand Marketing, Market Research, Advocacy, Medical and the Operations teams to develop and articulate payer marketing strategy. This role reports directly to the Executive Director, Payer Marketing.
This role is based at Axsome’s HQ in New York City with an on-site requirement of at least three days per week. We are unable to consider candidates who are looking for fully remote roles.
Job Responsibilities and Duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
Requirements / Qualifications
Experience, Knowledge and Skills
Salary and Benefits:
The anticipated salary range for this role is $175,000 - $225,000. The salary offer will be based on a variety of factors, including experience, qualifications, internal equity and location. Axsome offers a competitive employment package that includes an annual bonus, significant equity and a generous benefits package.
Axsome is committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
Axsome Therapeutics does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or third-party recruitment agencies and will not pay placement fees for unsolicited candidates that are sent to hiring managers, the HR team or other Axsome team members. Only approved vendors who have been explicitly asked to support a specific search will receive access to our Applicant Tracking System to submit candidates for consideration.
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