Director, Field Access

How will your role help us transform hope into reality?

In this field-based leadership role you will have a unique opportunity to build and lead a team of Field Access Managers (FAMs). The Director, Field Access Managers will leverage his/her access expertise and demonstrated leadership experience to lead the FAM team in identifying, understanding, and addressing challenges impacting patient access and affordability.

The Director, Field Access Managers will be a key member of the Market Access team, and will report to the Vice President, Market Access Operations. A critical component of this role is to establish collaborative relationships with Field Sales, Payer and Channel Marketing, Payer Account Team, Trade, Patient Services, Commercial Operations, and Compliance.

What will you do?

• Recruit, hire, train and lead a team of Field Access Managers to support patient access and affordability. Conduct performance evaluations, mentor, develop and lead a diverse and talented team who are competent and skilled in the healthcare marketplace and in access support.
• Establish a strong vision, swift integration with other Blueprint field teams, and clear objectives for the Field Access Managers that aligns with Blueprint’s values. Provide strategic direction to Field Access Managers, and ensure their daily activities are compliantly aligned with patient access priorities within their assigned regions.
• This individual will have a deep and board understanding of access and reimbursement across the healthcare landscape, as well as cross-functional business knowledge to optimize access and deliver an excellent customer experience.
• Serve as insurance coverage expert and coach for Field Access Managers, and ensure that the team maintains an up-to-date repository of plan-specific coverage criteria, forms, and submission procedures.
• Provide regular performance feedback, coaching and professional development to team members. Deliver consistent guidance via team calls, field ride alongs, and meeting engagements to ensure the team is compliantly and effectively leveraging tools and materials to educate healthcare professionals.
• Foster and inspire a collaborative, inclusive and high-performing team culture that encourages accountability and embraces innovation with a purposeful sense of urgency.
• Collaborate with Field Sales and Market Access colleagues to proactively identify, prioritize and address patient access bottlenecks. Utilize analytics and reporting dashboards to identify opportunities and barriers and to inform strategic solutions and action plans.
• Communicate regularly with cross-functional leadership on Field Access Manager team’s focus, metrics, and ways of working.
• Create a high-performance team driven by common values of trust, respect and commitment in winning the right way (culture of compliance). Ensure compliance with Blueprint’s policies and rules of engagement
• Track and analyze prior authorization outcome data along with market trends to identify areas of improvement and make appropriate recommendations.
• Travel up to 80% to oversee national team, as needed.

What minimum qualifications do we require?

• Bachelor’s degree
• 10+ years of commercial experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry, must include field access/reimbursement; 3+ years leadership experience within Market Access (i.e., pricing, strategy, Trade, National Accounts, etc.)

What additional qualifications will make you a stronger candidate?

• MBA
• Excellent understanding of prescription patient journey, drug coverage/benefit design.
• Demonstrated strength in strategic planning and tactical plan development and execution.
• Product launch experience in Oncology and/or rare disease.
• Attention to detail, self-motivated with a sense of urgency.
• Demonstrated leadership ability to persuade and influence others; collaborate in a fast-moving environment; and manage conflicts appropriately.
• Excellent interpersonal, leadership and communication skills within a matrix team environment.
• Strong knowledge of compliance guidelines and principles related to Field Access teams and both their external and internal interactions.
• Experience leading a field-based access/reimbursement team.
• Experience in recruiting and hiring high-performing teams.
• Commitment to our Core Values: Patients First, Thoughtfulness, Urgency, Trust, Optimism

Why Blueprint?

At Blueprint Medicines, we achieve impactful results because of our global crew of compassionate innovators – the Blue Crew. Through authentic relationships and our collective entrepreneurial spirit and action, we are each empowered to take ownership and execute with strategic prioritization. We put trust in our people to break through norms and conventions using their individual strengths and insights, which drives our success.

This is the place where the extraordinary becomes reality, and you could be part of it.

Patients are waiting. Are you ready to make the leap?

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Affirmative Action

At Blueprint Medicines, we foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion.  A proud Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer, we consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law.  We are also an E-Verify Employer.  We will make reasonable accommodations, absent undue hardship, for qualified individuals with known disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability in need of an accommodation with the application or recruiting process, please reach out to TotalRewards@blueprintmedicines.com. 

For more information, please see our EEO-AA Policy Statement, the EEO Know Your Rights Poster, as well as our Pay Transparency Statement. 

Blueprint Medicines is a global, fully integrated biopharmaceutical company that invents life-changing medicines. We seek to alleviate human suffering by solving important medical problems in two core focus areas: allergy/inflammation and oncology/hematology. Our approach begins by targeting the root causes of disease, using deep scientific knowledge in our core focus areas and drug discovery expertise across multiple therapeutic modalities. We have a proven track record of success with two approved medicines, including bringing our medicine to patients with systemic mastocytosis (SM) in the U.S. and Europe. Leveraging our established research, development, and commercial capability and infrastructure, we now aim to significantly scale our impact by advancing a broad pipeline of programs ranging from early science to advanced clinical trials in mast cell diseases including SM and chronic urticaria, breast cancer and other solid tumors.

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