Job Description

Your Tasks:

This role will be responsible for developing and executing the market access, reimbursement, and pricing strategy for the launch of the company's first CAR T-cell therapy. This role will lead payer engagement, contracting, patient support plans, distribution, and HEOR initiatives to ensure broad and sustainable patient access. As a leader, this position will build and lead a high-performing market access team, working cross-functionally to align access initiatives with corporate and commercial objectives. This individual will also engage directly with U.S. and global payers, policymakers, and key stakeholders to drive long-term success in the evolving cell therapy landscape.

This position will report to the Chief Officer, North America Biomedicine.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute the market access, reimbursement, and pricing strategy to support the successful launch and long-term adoption of the CAR T-cell therapy.


• Provide strategic leadership for payer access, coverage, reimbursement, contracting, pricing, health economics, and trade and distribution.


• Design and oversee the strategic framework of the patient services hub, ensuring alignment with payer requirements and provider needs, while partnering with the Business Excellence function for long-term operational management.


• Lead payer engagement efforts, proactively developing relationships with commercial insurers, PBMs, IHNs, State Medicaid, Medicare, and Federal VA/DoD to secure optimal reimbursement and coverage.


• Develop U.S. pricing recommendations that account for contracting, rebating, price adjustments, best price considerations, and broader market dynamics.


• Lead trade and distribution strategy, ensuring appropriate channel management to support product accessibility.


• Shape innovative reimbursement models and contracting strategies, ensuring affordability and access while maintaining financial sustainability.


• Collaborate with Marketing to develop a compelling product value proposition and payer engagement resources to support market access efforts.


• Ensure clinical research incorporates HEOR needs, leading the development of budget impact and cost-effectiveness models in partnership with Medical Affairs and Clinical Development.


• Stay ahead of evolving market trends, payer policies, and healthcare regulations, proactively adjusting strategies as needed.


• Build and lead a high-performing market access team while ensuring strong cross-functional collaboration across Commercial, R&D, Marketing, Sales, Manufacturing, and Medical Affairs.


• Ensure strict compliance with OIG, FDA, and other regulatory guidelines related to pricing, reimbursement, and market access activities.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's (BA/BS) degree required, advanced degree (MBA, MPH, PharmD, PhD) preferred; A minimum of fifteen (15) years of progressive leadership experience in market access within the pharmaceutical industry, including pricing & contracting, reimbursement, HEOR, and established relationships with several key national and regional payers; Or a combination of education and experience.


• Proven track record in payer engagement, contracting, and policy shaping at an executive level.


• Strong experience leading market access strategy for a high-cost, complex therapy requiring specialized reimbursement and distribution solutions, ideally in oncology, cell therapy, gene therapy, or rare diseases.


• Demonstrated ability to build and lead high-performing teams in a launch setting.


• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required (30-50%)

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Deep understanding of U.S. and global healthcare reimbursement systems, payer decision-making frameworks, and policy trends.


• Expertise in innovative pricing models, value-based agreements, and HEOR strategies.


• Proven ability to negotiate with and influence payers, policymakers, and healthcare systems at a senior level.


• Executive presence with excellent communication and leadership skills.


• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to align strategy across Commercial, R&D, Manufacturing, and Business Excellence functions.


• Proven experience ensuring compliance with the OIG, FDA, and other regulatory requirements related to market access, pricing, reimbursement, and patient support programs.


• Ability to navigate ambiguity, drive innovation, and execute in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms, talk, and hear. The employee is required to stand; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Must have ability to handle more than one task at a time and must work at a rapid pace while maintaining attention to detail.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. This job is performed in a variety of facilities. Each person performing this job must have a home office environment, which is temperature controlled. This job requires the person to be mobile to visit customer sites. Due to the travel requirements, this position may be exposed to natural elements of nature. Used research/clinical equipment may be handled in this job and strict SOPs and PPE must be worn.

Miltenyi Biomedicine, Inc . is an EO Employer - M/F/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

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Are you ready to start revolutionizing biomedical research? When you join Miltenyi Biotec, you join a family that is passionate about making a real impact - one breakthrough at a time. For over 30 years, we have played a pivotal role in the design, development, manufacture, and integration of products for sample preparation, cell separation, cell analysis, imaging, and cell culture needs. These developments have led to cutting-edge cell and gene therapies - transformative methods that mobilize the body's own cells and genetic blueprint to tackle diseases such as cancer and autoimmune conditions. Today, our more than 18,000 solutions play a vital role in paving the way for the medicine of tomorrow.

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