Executive Director Market Access

Bristol Myers Squibb ,
Uxbridge, Greater London

Overview

Job Description

Bristol-Myers Squibb is a global Biopharma company committed to a single mission: to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines focused on helping millions of patients around the world in disease areas such as oncology, cardiovascular, immunoscience and fibrosis. Join us and make a difference. We hire the best people and provide them with a work environment that places a premium on diversity, integrity, collaboration and personal development. Through a culture of inclusion, we create a better, more productive work environment. We believe that the diverse experiences and perspectives of all our employees help to drive innovation and transformative business results. Under the leadership of the Vice President/General Manager UK & Ireland (UK&I), the Executive Director Market Access (MA) is accountable for leading over 40 people across the following functions - Health Economics & Real World Data (RWD), Pricing, Government Affairs, Patient Advocacy, and NHS & Access Strategy - with the objective to optimizing patient access to the BMS portfolio of innovative assets, whilst maximizing value. Key Responsibilities include * As a member of the UK&I Leadership Team, you will help lead the 3rd largest Pharma company and the #1 Oncology Company in the UK&I. This includes helping deliver on 13 launches across Hematology, Solid tumor, and Immunology over the next 18-24 months, while helping build the leading BioPharm organization in the UK&I by bringing the best of BMS and the best of Celgene together * Lead the MA team in providing strategic and operational leadership to achieve timely patient access for the portfolio of innovative BMS products in the UK and Ireland for their commensurate value * Ensure the affiliate is successful and playing a leading role in the UK & Ireland in terms of access through: - Developing and maintaining a deep understanding of the evolving access environment whether at the national, regional, devolved nations and Irish level and translating that in impactful market access strategies for our product portfolio - Setting the strategic direction for access for BMS products (based on competitive trends, changes in the environment, overall BMS portfolio) - Being influential in the development and implementation of timely access policies for patients whether at the local, national, devolved nation or Irish level - Deliver integrated strategies across Health Economics and pricing, National Commissioning to anticipate and overcome patient access barriers to BMS products. - Leading the development and execution of robust pricing and market access strategies that result in high-quality HTA submissions and local market access strategies that achieve timely access to patients - Experimenting with innovative market access approaches - Continuously developing our HEOR / RWD and market access capabilities - retaining and attracting the best talent * Ensure the affiliate is playing a leading role in the healthcare political arena in the UK & Ireland through: - Developing and maintaining a visceral understanding of the evolving political environment whether at the national, regional, devolved nations and Irish level and translating that in a dynamic vision of the future with critical leading indicators - Developing and managing deep and sustainable relationships with a broad spectrum of external stakeholders (e.g., patient groups, press, professional bodies, DH, NICE, AHSNs, payer KOLs and academic centres of excellence) and sitting on key industry/policy bodies (ABPI, APG, EMIG) - Leading a strategic, pro-active government/public affairs agenda to shape key external UK/Ireland & European issues and improve the access environment in a positive way - Managing strategic government/public affairs initiatives and recommendations on how BMS UK & Ireland should address public policy challenges in legislation - Developing plans to strengthen BMS's image on an European and national level through value added programs and partnerships * Provide leadership and direction for ourPatient relations and Communication activities as executed through the Corporate Affairs function: - Lead and contribute to the execution of a PA/communication plan with a strategic and professional perspective and leverage a broad range of public relations and communications strategies to generate internal and external awareness of the important value BMS products and innovation deliver to the healthcare provider, patients, and society - Oversee the team's brand/disease related corporate affairs activities - Lead a team responsible for the development and management of the local relationships and activities with patient advocacy groups and liaise with EMEA and Global colleagues to align strategies * Ensure consistency and longevity across franchises and disease areas in terms of market access strategies * Maintain a relentless focus on excellence through the development of a world class team across the different MACA functions * Enable