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Kiera Kelleher
Senior Recruiter at Scientific Search | Pharma & Biotech | Life Sciences
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Company profile: Biologics company that works in infectious disease with 3 commercial products.
What You Will Be Doing
Lead in developing and implementing coordinated advocacy strategies and engagements with governmental and policy entities around issues that impact company, including but not limited to policies at the federal, state, and agency levels.
Engagement with advocacy organizations to advance visibility and partnership with the patient community across areas related to access, education, and legislation.
Liaise with cross-functional leads to solicit, evaluate, and advocate for policy issues that impact access, communications, and external stakeholders.
Maintain surveillance of policy developments and legislative tracking, and communicates alerts and updates to leadership on timely basis.
Work closely with US Policy and Access Strategy to develop internal analysis, education, and generate materials on relevant health policy topics, including but limited to sources of insurance (e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, commercial), drug supply chain and intermediaries (e.g., GPOs, PBMs), healthcare providers (e.g., varying settings of care and practice types; 340B entities), and drug pricing concepts (e.g., WAC, ASP, best price).
Conceptualize and draft publications on industry and appropriate medical topics in concert with the medical and policy education focus of the Company and its products.
Be an internal expert on the external policy environment and leads analysis of policy matters potentially affecting business.
Evaluate positions and policies of government and society guidelines and develops strategy for state Medicaid policy engagement.
Support development of advocacy strategy for non-proprietary issues, including developing of evidence and intellectual capital through partnering with academic institutions, patient advocacy groups, consultants, and think tanks.
Develop updates for corporate and relevant customer, scientific forums, and investor communications.
Work with appropriate industry trade organizations to ensure organization’s views are represented fairly and accurately in discussions.
Engage and collaborate with external subject matter experts on policy issues and activities.
Develop advocacy strategy aligned with commercial organizational objectives and within budget.
Work cross functionally and collaborate across all levels of the organization to ensure that patient engagements, partnerships, and advocacy strategy is clearly defined and executed with excellence.
Identify and execute opportunities to collaborate functional leads on advocacy initiatives and patient engagement.
Strengthen existing advocacy partnerships and expand engagement reach with new stakeholders.
Communicate updates for PR opportunities and corporate communications.
Collaborate with internal stakeholders to develop programs to raise awareness of and educate on disease-related topics.
Serve as company presence on advocacy at related meetings and patient engagement events (e.g., walks, meetings, community gatherings).
Develop and track metrics for engagement activities and financial contributions.
Build positive stakeholder relations internally and externally, and establish active and compliant partnerships with patient organizations and communities.
Ensure compliance with all legal regulatory and company requirements for scientific communications (publications and medical education materials).
Manage relevant financial and contractual aspects of assigned projects, including vendor negotiations.
Contribute to annual budgeting process and manages monthly spending within allocated budget.
Lead the development and oversight of the patient engagement process, system, and SOPs.
Support Executive Director in government affairs administrative functions as needed.
What you will bring to the table…
Bachelor’s degree in life science/healthcare or a related discipline (legislative affairs, public policy, public health, health policy, etc.).
A minimum of 3 years in pharmaceutical industry and/or other healthcare-related experience, specifically working in health policy or patient engagement roles.
Competency-level experience in pharmaceutical reimbursement/market access strategy, advocacy, health policy and/or stakeholder partnerships.
Demonstrated communication and platform skills (i.e., Excel, PowerPoint, and Word), including ability to create deliverables independently.
Relevant experience in patient advocacy, stakeholder management and collaborative leadership.
Experience in directing the work of outside consultants and stakeholders.
For more information on this fantastic opportunity, please reach out to Kiera@ScientificSearch.com
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Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Other
Industries
Staffing and Recruiting
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