Offer summary

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree required., 5+ years’ experience in the pharmaceutical/biotech or related healthcare industry., Significant expertise in market access and reimbursement matters., In-depth knowledge of pharmaceutical compliance and patient confidentiality regulations..

Key responsibilities:

Minimize reimbursement barriers for patients and providers by educating on coverage and reimbursement criteria.

Develop and maintain relationships with healthcare providers and key stakeholders.

Collaborate with internal teams to resolve reimbursement issues and improve patient access.

Analyze market opportunities and develop strategic business plans for local access strategies.

Job description

Ascendis Pharma is a dynamic, fast-growing global biopharmaceutical company with locations in Denmark, Europe, and the United States. Today, we're advancing programs in Endocrinology Rare Disease and Oncology.

Here at Ascendis, we pride ourselves on exceptional science, visionary leadership, and skilled and passionate colleagues.

Guided by our core values of Patients, Science, and Passion, we use our TransCon® drug development platform to fulfill our mission of developing new and potentially best-in-class therapies to address unmet medical needs.

Our culture fosters a place where skilled, adaptable, and highly resourceful professionals can truly make their mark. We offer a dynamic workplace for employees to grow and develop their skills.

The Field Reimbursement Manager (FRM) is responsible for minimizing reimbursement barriers for patients and providers by providing appropriate and accurate managed care coverage and reimbursement criteria regarding products within the disease state. The FRM role, is customer-facing, and focused on providing coverage and reimbursement education to HCP office staff. The FRM will educate and support the integration of the product into physician offices. Additionally, the FRM will analyze reimbursement and access issues and act as the local access and reimbursement resource for other field sales force personnel and region management. The Field Reimbursement Manager will achieve objectives by working closely with internal and external partners (Market Access, Sales, Patient Support and other key colleagues) supporting targeted accounts and helping resolve reimbursement issues or concerns.

Key Responsibilities

Demonstrate deep knowledge of reimbursement and access, and function compliantly as the subject matter expert in their assigned territory

Demonstrate extensive knowledge of individual managed care account’s geographic presence/influence, payor mix, product coverage and reimbursement criteria policies
Educate providers on prior authorization requirements, coverage status, payer appeals requirements, alternate funding options for the uninsured and under insured, and all associated processes and timelines
Routinely provide access education to HCPs and office staff
Create and maintain productive relationships with HCPs, key stakeholders within HCP offices, and health care systems
Apply knowledge of specialty pharmacy core services and connectivity to assist customers navigating the complexity of specialty pharmacy distribution
Partner with Patient Support Team to ensure accurate coverage determinations, and optimized processing of enrollments for timely access of product for patients
Establish ambitious objectives in developing, explaining, and implementing innovative solutions for patient access
Develop business plans by performing strategic analyses of customers; identify issues and opportunities
Collaborate with cross-functional partners to identify and respond to local opportunities and customer needs
Collaborate with Area Business Director to develop a local access strategy plan that ensures achievement of KPI goals and delivery on all objectives
Partner across the organization and with external vendors to continuously improve patient access deliverables, services, and the customer experience

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree
5+ years’ experience in the pharmaceutical / biotech or related healthcare industry
5 years’ experience with Specialty Pharmaceuticals / Biologics
Significant expertise in market access and reimbursement matters
Ensure strong understanding and utilization of Specialty Pharmacy and third-party services (Patient Support)
In depth knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturer compliance, patient confidentiality, product reimbursement and product access requirements

Knowledge of regulations and laws governing the protection of patient identifying information, and relevant laws, regulations, and policies pertaining to access offerings

A note to recruiters:

We do not allow external search party solicitation. Presentation of candidates without written permission from the Ascendis Pharma Inc Human Resources team (specifically from: Talent Acquisition Partner or Human Resources Director) is not allowed. If this occurs your ownership of these candidates will not be acknowledged.

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