Market Access Analytics and Insights Associate Director

Job Description

General Summary:

Vertex is seeking to hire an Associate Director of Access Strategy Analytics & Insights to join the US Market Access (USMA) team within the Commercial organization. This individual has the primary responsibility for the oversight and hands-on management of the Access Strategy Analytics & Insights function across all payer and channel segments in the United States. This is an exciting, high-profile opportunity for an expert in market access strategy to develop innovative analytical approaches that assure patient access to equally innovative and transformative rare disease therapies. The ideal candidate is passionate about patients, focused on driving results, is strategically adept, and willing to be involved in hands-on execution.

This individual will lead and provide qualitative and quantitative insights in support of access barriers, payer behavior, and pull-through strategy across launch, and in-line brands. This role will frequently interact with senior Market Access leadership team and the successful individual must have a high degree of attention to detail in generating insights. This individual must be highly self-directed in engaging with stakeholders, while also able to effectively work in a team-oriented setting.

The Associate Director, Access Strategy Analytics & Insights position resides within the US Market Access, Data and Analytics Center of Excellence and is a vital and strategic role in our growing team. The role requires strong data & analytics experience as well as deep subject matter expertise within the overall U.S. market access environment, with an in-depth understanding of value, pricing, and reimbursement dynamics. The role provides insights that impact patient access to Vertex’s groundbreaking therapies and brands for rare diseases, through its influence on coverage policy understanding, value articulation, and strategic access decisions. This position leads the generation and enablement of market access specific insights, requiring strong proficiency with analytics tools, syndicated, secondary, and internal data resources.

This position reports directly to the Senior Director, US Market Access Data & Analytics Center of Excellence and will serve as a core member of USMA Therapy Area forum(s) in support of market access for new and existing products.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the delivery of therapeutic area specific analytical insights in response to market access landscape, issues and trends.
• Cross-Collaborate with the Global Commercial Insights and Analytics Organization to incorporate qualitative and quantitative market research into market access analytics and strategy development.
• Partner with GPS (Guidance & Patient Services) to integrate insights related to compliance, persistence, and adherence into access analytics and patient journey understanding.
• Translate business objectives into analytic requirements to support Market Access Strategy enablement, delivering insights into payer policy trends, formulary positioning, and value messaging strategies across both commercial and government payers.
• Conduct value and access outcomes analyses to evaluate policy impact, coverage variation, and access risks for pipeline, launch, and in-line brands.
• Support Gross-to-Net (GTN) planning by supplying payer mix insights, utilization controls, and contract execution data to improve forecast inputs and sensitivity modeling.
• Generate actionable insights using advanced data tools and technologies—SQL, PowerBI, Excel, and other BI platforms—while ensuring data validation, clarity, and business relevance.
• Build executive-ready dashboards and insight products that communicate access opportunities and barriers through compelling, data-driven narratives tailored to senior and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Demonstrate strong data storytelling skills by synthesizing technical data into clear and strategic business recommendations that drive decision-making and access execution.
• Work directly with payer account and Payer Field Engagement teams to translate insights into pull-through strategies and support tactical alignment across payer engagements.
• Leverage strong knowledge of Veeva systems to connect access insights to field execution and account planning processes.
• Analyze Trade & Distribution data, including 852/867 feeds (e.g., IntegriChain), to support visibility into product availability, distribution channel behavior, and downstream market access implications.
• Understand the impact of utilization management, tiering and formulary or medical policy impact on overall demand, use of therapeutic alternatives and co-pay support.
• Conduct investigative analytics to validate and/ or quantify market access-related phenomenon related to competitive or customer tactics. Identify through quantitative methods, value drivers that guide options to remove barriers to access and improve brand value proposition.
• Perform claims analysis and identify market dynamics that demonstrate the impact of payer controls and build models to portray risks, opportunities and sensitivities.
• Conduct proactive research and analysis of various data sources, digestion of industry publications and engagement of internal/external stakeholders to define channel, segment and payer mix.
• Inform and support future pre- and post- contract evaluations with contract operations and administration teams. This may include volume and geographic considerations as well as utilization management trends.
• Act as a connector between Access Strategy and internal data partners, aligning business questions with data architecture and insight delivery roadmaps.
• Serve as an advocate in integrating market access insights sourced across Vertex teams – Market Access Strategy, Govt. Pricing, Trade Operations, Distribution and Field teams; develop strong partnerships with DTE (Data Technology & Engineering), DSS (Data Strategy & Solutions) and HEOR teams in support of market access goals.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in quantitative discipline required (e.g., Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Finance).
• 7-10 years of experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry, 6+ years of insights, analytics and reporting is required.
• 10+ years of US pharmaceutical industry experience with increasing responsibilities
• 5+ years of experience in developing US Market Access preferably in Access Strategy, Pricing, Reimbursements and Chargebacks, Value Proposition in an analytical role
• Excellent working knowledge of the Market Access data sets including MMIT, IQVIA, Pricing / GTN (Model-N), Trade and Distribution (IntegriChain 852/867), Dispenses and Claims (IQVIA, Optum) and Real-World Data (DRG, Market Scan, etc.).
• Exceptional analytics and technical data query skills with experience creating and/or supporting complex analytics and working closely with data scientists and engineers
• Strong to expert proficiency in Power BI and SQL is a must. Working knowledge of data lake platforms such as Snowflake is a plus.
• Stakeholder management: Ability to communicate confidently and succinctly to senior leaders and ability to manage complexity and ambiguity in a highly matrixed environment.
• Strong data story telling skills with Powerpoint, Excel, and PowerBI; ability to distill complex information synthesized into concise and impactful visuals, messages and presentations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead initiatives that require cross collaboration across multiple functional areas.
• Flexible, adaptable, diplomatic, and able to effectively deal with ambiguity.
• Ability to influence decision-makers through incisive analysis and persuasive communication, including experience in working with senior leadership to support financial forecasting and analytics, and/or commercial launch planning
• able relationships

Education and Experience:

• Master’s Degree in a quantitative discipline and/ or MBA, MPH
• An entrepreneurial spirit and ability to proactively develop creative solutions to complex problems.
• Good understanding of state and federal policies and government programs such as 340B impacting market access, trade, distribution, and gross-to-net impacts
• Good understanding of statutory government pricing methodologies
• 6 or more years of pharmaceutical manufacturer market access experience and subject matter expertise with Health Plans, PBMs, Hospital Systems, Specialty Pharmacies and Healthcare Policy stakeholders.
• Highly diverse US product launch experience across different disease areas, specially rare diseases, strongly preferred
• Experience analyzing large data sets, such as transactional or claims data, using a statistical analysis software package (e.g., R, Python, etc. a plus)

Pay Range:

$164,000 - $246,000

Disclosure Statement:

Flex Designation:

Hybrid-Eligible Or On-Site Eligible

Flex Eligibility Status:

In this Hybrid-Eligible role, you can choose to be designated as: 
1.    Hybrid: work remotely up to two days per week; or select
2.    On-Site: work five days per week on-site with ad hoc flexibility.

Note: The Flex status for this position is subject to Vertex’s Policy on Flex @ Vertex Program and may be changed at any time.
 

Company Information

Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation.

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