Director, Oncology OCAR, New Product Payer Marketing

Job Description

Access to our medicines is a strategic pillar for our organization and the Oncology Organized Customer Access and Reimbursement (OCAR) team is positioned to support that endeavor.  Our goal is to provide broad access across our Oncology portfolio, and we engage with customers across the payer, provider, channel and policy spectrums to develop solutions that support patient access to our medicines.

As a part of our Oncology Organized Customer Marketing Access and Reimbursement (OCAR) team, the Director, New Product Payer Marketing, will provide oversight into the development of access strategies for our New Products portfolio.  The Director will be responsible for managing the early access planning for 10+ new oncology assets in our pipeline, driving projects supporting list price, lifecycle gross to net and discount/contracting assumptions, IRA legislation and policy impacts, site of care and dispense assumptions, as well as payer, provider and pathway value message planning. 

Early asset development decisions can have major impacts to future access strategies and go to market executions. The Director will collaborate with multiple stakeholders within our organization, including our Global Access Teams, Global Marketing Teams, US Marketing Teams, IRA teams, Finance and Clinical value evidence teams to ensure transparency and alignment to future access opportunities and challenges.

This role will be responsible for providing oversight, leadership and management that will include but not limited to the following: 

• Creation and maintenance of early access strategies for each portfolio asset including: 

  • Input on evidence generation and evidence needs

  • value messaging

  • list price strategy

  • contracting options across segments, inclusive of value-based approaches

  • distribution

  • customer segment / site of care strategy

  • payer policy inclusion

  • provider access and reimbursement

  • patient access and OOP

  • pathway inclusion

  • impact of legislative policy

• Support of portfolio-based access strategies

• Finance alignment and management of access inputs to annual and long-term forecasting for new products

• Pre-approval information exchange strategy (PIE)

• Capability building: creation and maintenance of modeling, research, dashboards and analysis supporting early product access. 

• Oversight of transition planning to in-line team for products closer to launch

• Support of ad-hoc new product asset analysis

Required Experience and Skills:

• Bachelor's degree

• Minimum of (8) years combined experience in Pharmaceutical Marketing, Organized Customer Management, Managed Care/Payer Marketing or Sales.

• Demonstrated experience with Marketing, Promotion Management, Managed Markets and Policy customer segments, Account Management and/or Customer Marketing.

• Demonstrated understanding of healthcare trends and policy issues and their potential impact upon our Company's business opportunities.

• Deep US segment Market Access experience

• Analytic and modeling experience

• Proven leadership skills with ability to lead across diverse departments, collaborating across stakeholders, and effectively engaging the senior management.

• Demonstrated strategic & critical thinking, problem solving, analytical mindset & planning and communication (written/verbal) skills.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Master's degree

• Director Level of Marketing or Managed Care /Payer Marketing or Account Management

• Experience in Oncology (IV and Oral)

• Experience with individualized medicine, cell and gene therapies

Position Location:

Upper Gwynedd, PA (hybrid) or Virtual/Remote based United States

Required Skills:

Collaboration, Leadership, Market Access, Market Research, Oncology Marketing, Payer Marketing, Payer Reimbursement, Product Marketing, Strategic Thinking, US Marketing

Preferred Skills:

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The salary range for this role is

$190,800.00 - $300,300.00

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs.

The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits.  Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits.

You can apply for this role through https://jobs.merck.com/us/en (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting.

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

1st - Day

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

NA

Job Posting End Date:

06/4/2026

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