Key skills
AnalyticsLeadershipCommunicationDecision MakingSales
About this role
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Director, Access Strategy Analytics, Asundexian
The Director, Access Strategy Analytics, Asundexian, is responsible to:
- Build the analytics framework for Asundexian which includes connecting the dots across the analytics across different channels (i.e. health plans/ PBM, distributors, hospitals, and GPOs). This will include leveraging hospital-based and retail pharmacy data to derive insights into transitions of care. Additionally, this critical member of the Strategy Analytics team will work collaboratively with Patient Services to create and deliver impactful wrap around services to ensure patient access and affordability.
- Generate critical Market Access & Brand insights into our customers to drive pull-through, as well as business insights to accelerate brand success.
- Execute insight generation and business analytics to provide competitive advantage and support high quality decisions critical within the Market Access business.
- Collaborate across internal stakeholders including Brand Insights & Analytics, Forecasting, Finance and external partners to efficiently execute against Market Access, Patient Services, and Mission strategic priorities.
He/ She is expected to be well versed and experienced in relevant U.S. Managed Markets areas including Hospital/IDN Formulary Access, Benefit Design, Access & Reimbursement, distribution models, Pricing & Contracting, and Payer Marketing. Furthermore, needs to be able to confidently apply analytics and models pertaining to pharma, encompassing business performance, impact of access on prescribing, forecasting, GTN, and patient services performance.
The incumbent is expected to be a thought partner and advisor to the Access Business Partner (ABP) and Access Marketing Leader (AML) to challenge, guide, and support US Pharma stakeholders to clear, data-driven, actionable Market Access, Patient Services, and Mission related decisions. This leader will also be a member of the Business Insights ecosystem, responsible for collaborating with analytics partners to inform Product and Customer squads.
As such, incumbent must bring strong problem-solving skills to address critical and novel business questions, through sound analytics. This role, therefore, drives and owns quality and relevance of various analytics projects, and application of innovative tools to achieve organizational objectives.
This position will be based in Whippany, NJ
YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Director, Access Strategy Analytics is responsible for Market Access Strategic insights generation and analysis for Asundexian. Such efforts involve the following:
- Inform and facilitate decision making and answer key business questions related to Market Access, Patient Services and Mission strategic priorities; to provide competitive advantage and drive Market Access profitability and access optimization;
- Formulate business questions and subsequent articulation of hypotheses and analytical programs, including experiments and pilots and relevant KPIs associated with Market Access and Patient Services initiatives;
- Guidance and leadership in Market Access data modeling and preparation (experience in working with customer supplied data);
- Development of insights, conclusions, and recommendations in combination with the Market Access Strategy Lead and cross-functional partners such as Brand Insights & Analytics and Forecasting;
- Design metrics and measurement approaches for new priority strategic initiatives, establishing clear business outcomes;
- Engage cross-functionally to compile performance updates across key Market Access metrics for Mission Teams and Integrated Brand Team;
- Build analytical models to inform Market Access aspects of brand forecasting, collaborating with team members across Market Access and Patient Services teams to gather inputs and generate assumptions;
- Support brand planning and strategy development;
- Ensure compliance with all Bayer policies and procedures for appropriate applications of data and analytics with respect to Medical Engagement;
- Collaborates with agencies and vendors in line with overall vendor strategy, and ensure compliance.
WHO YOU ARE
Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Relevant experience in the Pharma industry;
- In-depth knowledge of US Market Access landscape and US Healthcare environment across multiple segments and brands pertaining to Bayer’s pharmaceutical business;
- Strong data-driven strategy and analysis skills, including experience in facilitating insight generation, synthesis of data to address unique business questions;
- A critical thinker and problem solver using data to inform insights;
- High level knowledge of relevant pharmaceutical data sources including sales data sources such as sales/claims (e.g., IQVIA, Symphony), access (e.g., DRG, MMIT), Patient Services data, Specialty Pharmacy data, formulary data, etc. Ability to see the “big picture” to work with the associated data experts to stitch data together to drive strategic analytics;
- Strong verbal and written communication skills;
- Demonstrated thought leadership skills operating within cross- functional teams in a matrix organization.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 8+ years of full-time work experience, of which 5+ years of relevant experience in the Pharma industry.
Employees can expect to be paid a salary of between $175,300 to $263,000. Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission (if relevant). Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc.. This salary range is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicant’s location, market data/ranges, an applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors.
This posting will be available for application until at least: 3/20/2026.
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YOUR APPLICATION
Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs. If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, and want to impact our mission Health for all, Hunger for none, we encourage you to apply now. Be part of something bigger. Be you. Be Bayer.
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