The Associate Director, Regional Accounts will be responsible for delivering on our Strategic Imperatives: Managing Gross to Net, Establish Protect and Improve Access, and Support Pull Through Initiatives for Alkermes Marketed Products through appropriate payers and managed care markets in AR, KS, MO, NE, NM, OK, & TX (can reside anywhere in the geography). The level of this role is commensurate with the reach and influence of assigned regional and local accounts.

Responsibilities

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute public sector and managed care payer strategies for targeted regional plans to secure coverage for newly marketed products, minimize barriers to access, solve reimbursement issues, and support sales for Alkermes marketed products
• Work within a cross-functional team focusing on Alkermes’ core classes of trade:
  • Commercial Managed Care (Regional Plans)
  • Medicaid (Fee for Service, Managed Care Organizations)
  • Medicare
  • Pharmacy Benefit Managers
  • Behavioral Health Organizations (BHOs)
  • Advocacy, consumer, provider and treatment systems groups
• Work closely with the Sales leadership, field sales representatives, Medical Science Liaisons and Policy partners to educate health care participants on reimbursement of Alkermes marketed products
• Support access to Alkermes marketed products within integrated healthcare delivery systems
• Conduct outreach to and network with state/local provider, patient and healthcare systems advocacy organizations
• Develop and execute regional plans to secure access and reimbursement for new products, new approved uses and other product-related changes as needed
• Work with assigned regional payers to secure reimbursement for Alkermes marketed products
• Provide regional strategic direction, prioritization and understanding of regional funding streams specific to Alkermes therapeutic areas and associated treatment systems
• Develop sustainable corporate relationships that will allow for continued growth of current and future products

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree is required
• 10+ year of pharmaceutical experience; specialty background preferred
• Driver’s license must be in good standing
• Must be able to demonstrate or secure appropriate credentialing, as may be required by healthcare providers for physical access to their facilities

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2-3+ years of reimbursement and account management experience preferred
• Expert in the field of pharmaceutical reimbursement; preference for experience with specialty pharmaceuticals / biotech products
• Experience working with both commercial plans and government payers
• Contracting experience for commercial managed care, Medicaid, and Medicare
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of PHRMA Code Guidelines
• Strong analytical, strategic and communication skills
• Demonstrated leadership skills

Travel Expectations:

• This is a regional position that will require sufficient travel to meet the needs of the business

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About Us

Why join Team Alkermes?

Alkermes applies its deep neuroscience expertise to develop medicines designed to help people living with complex and difficult-to-treat psychiatric and neurological disorders. A fully-integrated, global biopharmaceutical company, headquartered in Ireland with U.S. locations in Massachusetts and Ohio, we are committed to pursuing great science, driven by deep compassion to make a real impact in the lives of patients. Alkermes has a portfolio of proprietary commercial products for the treatment of alcohol dependence, opioid dependence, schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder, and a pipeline of clinical and preclinical candidates in development for various neurological disorders, including narcolepsy.

Beyond our important mission of developing medicines to address unmet patient needs, we actively seek to foster a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging throughout our business. We strive to ensure that all voices are respected and valued, recognizing that our diversity of thought, background and perspective makes us stronger. We are proud to have been recognized as an employer of choice by many national organizations, including being certified as a Great Place to Work in the U.S. in 2024, honored as a Healthiest Employer in both Ohio and Massachusetts in 2023, a Best Place for Working Parents in 2023, and to have received the Bell Seal at the Platinum level for Workplace Mental Health by Mental Health America for three consecutive years (2021-2023). 

Alkermes, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any qualified applicant or employee because of race, creed, color, age, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression and identity, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status, application for military service or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law.  Alkermes also complies with all work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA.  Alkermes is an E-Verify employer.