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Some opportunities happen only once in a lifetime – like a job where you have the chance to change lives. At Alexion, people living with rare and devastating diseases are our Guiding Star. We are driven to continuously innovate and create meaningful value in all we do to help patients and families fully live their best lives. We value the uniqueness and diversity of our employees and recognize that nurturing the diverse perspectives and strengths of our people translates into innovative breakthroughs for patients.
Pricing and Contract Manager, Canada
This is what you will do:
This role will be responsible for monitoring the local and global pricing environment to ensure pricing compliance across the Alexion Rare disease business unit (RDBU). This position will play a foundational role in contract term design, implementation, reconciliation, and monitoring to ensure price terms and conditions can be implemented and appropriately accounted for.
You will be responsible for:
Lead end to end process for pricing and market access contracts (public and private), both internally and externally.
In collaboration with Market Access and Canadian leadership team, support the pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance (pCPA), private payer and provincial negotiation strategies for new and marketed products.
Collaborate with Market Access managers to develop pricing strategies for pipeline planning, new product launches, pricing maintenance and defense, cross-indication price optimization in compliance with Patented Medicines Pricing Review Board (PMPRB), in alignment with Global pricing guidance and in consideration of local market factors.
Perform key analyses (price-volume trade-off), assess financial impact of pricing policies, and contract terms. Provide data-driven insights, build innovative pricing models, and provide clear pricing recommendations to market access team and additional stakeholders.
Provide pricing-related assumptions for financial planning cycles
Support Market access in contract implementation and maintenance
Reviewing and provide recommendations for payer agreement financial terms and conditions, to ensure feasibility of implementation
Lead the implementation of any payer contract to ensure systems, processes and reporting are efficiently and effectively set up to track contract adherence.
Perform detailed reconciliations of all contractual obligations to ensure that all pricing agreements (e.g. rebates, caps) are accurately billed / accounted for . This includes partnering with external Patient support programs to obtain adequate reporting to facilitate reconciliation between Alexion RDBU and payers
Ensure all contracts are stored, monitored, and renewed timely
Update (PAR) Pricing, Access and Reporting database for new or renewed contract terms
Lead Patented Medicines Pricing Review Board (PMPRB) strategy, compliance, reporting, and analyses across Alexion RDBU portfolio including but not limited to
Monitoring evolving PMPRB regulations and guidelines and impact on RDBU
Proactive review of pricing compliance related to Canadian reference countries
Coordinating and completing semi-annual block reporting and adhoc reporting
Working with legal, market access and finance teams to devise and implement strategies to maximize business opportunities under PMPRB guidelines while remaining compliant.
Support PMPRB investigations, working with commercial, Finance, Legal and external consultants to develop effective strategies and perform detailed analyses to support positions take to limit Alexion RDBU risk
Subject matter expert on pricing environment including but not limited to
Monitoring and ensuring compliance with provincial pricing policies, rules, and pricing submissions.
Monitoring movements of competitor pricing and pricing regulations to ensure Alexion RDBU is competitively positioned, while ensuring internally and externally (PMPRB) compliance
Working with Government Affairs Director and Market Access Director to monitor and assess the health care and payer policy environment for price implications, work with Canadian industry groups including, BIOTECanada (BTC), Rarei and others as needed
You will need to have:
University degree in Accounting, Finance, Science, Health Sciences or Business
Minimum of 5 years of experience in a similar position, with market access and pricing expertise in the Canadian pharmaceutical industry, including previous experience directly dealing with PMPRB Regulations and Guidelines management
Demonstrated experience working with and communicating clearly and effectively at all levels of an organization
Ability to think strategically and understand tactical implications, with solid analytical skills
Ability to lead and drive change in a matrix environment
Strong written and oral presentation skills to explain complex concepts clearly and to a variety of audiences
Experience presenting insights and price business cases to Senior Management
Experience working cross functionally
Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint
Experience with and ability to understand and maximize the use of ERP systems to implement efficient sustainable processes to enable high quality data
We would prefer for you to have:
Strong strategic & analytical thinking: ability to understand, synthetize and communicate complex concepts and outcomes and distil into clear executive-level story-telling
Expertise in analytics / business insights, financial modelling and building strong business cases
Self-starter with leadership skills requiring minimum oversight who is pro-active, motivates, and has tact, diplomacy and is a true team player
Relationship builder, demonstrating an ability to listen and respond to a wide variety of constituencies; strong interpersonal skills to influence people at all levels of the organization without authority
Ability to direct and prioritize own workload in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
Excellent interpersonal skills and capacity to manage conflict constructively.
Ability to lead with humility, ask questions, and learn continuously; comfortable engaging with stakeholders directly to set agenda and goals, and drive the conversation to achieve goals
Bring a mindset focused on efficiency, transparency balanced with patient centricity and compliance
Alexion is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on serving patients and families affected by rare diseases and devastating conditions through the discovery, development and commercialization of life-changing medicines. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Alexion has offices around the globe and serves patients in more than 50 countries. Further information about Alexion can be found at: www.alexion.com.
Alexion is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where every single person can belong because of their uniqueness. The Company will not make decisions about employment, training, compensation, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment based on race, color, religion, creed or lack thereof, sex, sexual orientation, age, ancestry, national origin, ethnicity, citizenship status, marital status, pregnancy, (including childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), parental status (including adoption or surrogacy), military status, protected veteran status, disability, medical condition, gender identity or expression, genetic information, mental illness or other characteristics protected by law. Alexion provides reasonable accommodations to meet the needs of candidates and employees. To begin an interactive dialogue with Alexion regarding an accommodation, please contact [email protected]. Alexion participates in E-Verify.
AstraZeneca completed its acquisition of Alexion, marking the creation of Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease. If you’re interested in career opportunities with AstraZeneca, click here.
