Assistant Director, Value & Access Strategy

Cencora are looking for a remote US based Assistant Director Value & Access Strategy to join their team.

Under the general direction of the U.S Value & Access Strategy team leadership and on behalf of clients, this active, hands-on role involves working directly on client project work and new business development opportunities. This role requires at least 5+ years of biopharmaceutical U.S Market Access experience (on either the client or consulting side); specifically, we are looking for candidates that possess experience and expertise in payer value proposition (PVP) development, pre-approval information exchange (PIE) and healthcare economic information (HCEI) tools. The candidate may be involved in a variety of Value & Access Strategy work types, inclusive but not limited to market access strategy, market research / insights generation, value proposition development, market access field tool development, and more. Depending on the candidate's experience, this role may be filled at Assistant Director or Manager level; roles and responsibilities will adjust accordingly.

The ideal candidate will maintain and grow strong client relationships across Value and Access focused project work including supporting project execution, ensuring pull-through and quality of deliverables with our clients and initiating business development activities through proactive outreach and chain-linking of existing relationships. Qualified candidates will leverage their biopharmaceutical knowledge and experience and possess strong critical thinking, business acumen, communication, and client management skills. This individual should thrive in a matrixed, team-oriented environment where all team members take responsibility for the quality and validity of deliverables from project initiation through completion.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Under general supervision, plans, conducts and supervises client work assignments. Reviews progress and evaluates results. Recommends changes in procedures. May lead or direct less complex projects or certain aspects of projects. Must be willing to participate in all aspects of project execution as well as project leadership, as needs are identified.

• Support action plans to advance projects, particularly by resolving conflicts, identify their root causes, develop options, garner resources, and take action to prevent similar issues arising in the future

• Recognize changes in project scope, taking appropriate action with internal team members and the client

• Demonstrate key knowledge of team's projects: clients, business issue(s) objectives, scopes, budgets and timelines

• Demonstrate understanding of Cencora solutions to execute projects

• Seek and use customer feedback to improve processes and solutions

• Review content contributed by direct reports and project team members, as warranted

• Create and own accurate, strategic, high-quality content

• Identify and use content-related resources to support project

• Complete content work within assigned hours and on time

• Meet personal chargeability goal, prioritizing chargeable and non-chargeable goals
  Seek out and use customer feedback to improve processes, solutions, team member performance and to chain link

• Seek out and use customer feedback to develop offerings and improve services
  Manage the client-interface when acting as a Client Manager on a project, in concert with the Project Manager

• Solve problems with clients by collaborating with relevant Cencora associates
  Spend approximately 20% of time developing new business via chain linking, new clients and/or new offerings

• Accomplishes staff results by communicating expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; developing, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, procedures, and productivity standards.

• Performs other related duties as assigned

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Experience & Educational Requirements:

• Completion of a four-year bachelor's degree program or equivalent combination of experience and education. Typically seeking 5+ years of directly related and progressively responsible experience.

Minimum skills, Knowledge & Ability Requirements:

• Possesses and applies comprehensive knowledge of particular field of specialization to the completion of significant assignments. May cross fields.

• Good interpersonal skills

• Good relationship building skills

• Good oral communication skills

• Good written communication skills

• Good group presentation skills

• Good analytical skills

• Good mathematical skills

• Good organizational skills

• Good staff development skills

• Computer software: Excel, Word, PowerPoint

• Proven ability to manage an organization to meet business plan metrics

• Demonstrated ability to work within teams and across teams

• Detailed knowledge of pharmaceutical industry, with demonstrated success in the industry or consulting to the industry

• Demonstrated ability to perform roles/responsibilities independently and with sound judgment

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members' ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora

*This Salary Range reflects a National Average for this job. The actual range may vary based on your locale. Ranges in Colorado/California/Washington/New York/Hawaii/Vermont/Minnesota/Massachusetts/Illinois State-specific locations may be up to 10% lower than the minimum salary range, and 12% higher than the maximum salary range.

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company's continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email hrsc@cencora.com. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned

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