Associate Director, Market Access Insights

Company Description

Deciphera is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing important new medicines to improve the lives of people with cancer. We are leveraging our proprietary switch-control kinase inhibitor platform and deep expertise in kinase biology to develop a broad portfolio of innovative medicines.

In addition to advancing multiple product candidates from our platform in clinical studies, QINLOCK® is Deciphera’s FDA-approved switch-control kinase inhibitor for the treatment of fourth-line gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST). QINLOCK is also approved for fourth-line GIST in Australia, Canada, China, and Hong Kong.

Deciphera (NASDAQ: DCPH) is a publicly traded company headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. Our state-of-the-art research facility is located in Lawrence, Kansas.

We offer an outstanding culture and opportunity for personal and professional growth based on our “PATHS” Core Values:

Patients – places the importance of improving the lives of patients and their caregivers at the forefront of every day’s work.

Accountability – for our performance and the way we work with coworkers and other stakeholders.

Transparency – in our intent and actions to both internal and external stakeholders.

Honesty and Integrity – fosters trust and strives to deliver on our and the company’s promises.

Stewardship – values and uses wisely the resources and investments provided to the company.

The Commercial Insights and Operations (CI&O) team has an exciting opportunity to join Deciphera as we work to discover, develop and commercialize important new medicines to improve the lives of people with cancer. We are seeking an individual to bring energy, passion, and dedication to excellence in support of core business objectives.

Role Summary

Responsibilities

The Associate Director, Market Access Insights & Analytics is responsible for transforming (planning, generating, integrating) insights and analytics into commercial growth opportunities and tactics relating to all aspects of product access

• Payer: insights, product and company perception, commercial product coverage
• Any other relevant customer purchasing insights & metric tracking for current and future Deciphera assets
• Customer purchasing group insights and performance (e.g. GPOs, VA, 340B hospitals, etc).
• Channel (Specialty Distributor (SD) and Specialty Pharmacy (SPP)): activity and performance
• Patient services: activity and performance of initial product access and ongoing intervention programs

Key Activities

• Liaise with Directors of Field Access (DFAs) and Market Access Leadership to analyze and address evolving challenges and opportunities relating to product access
• Support payer and channel marketing development
• Elevate the utility and design of internal tools, reports and dashboards to streamline and facilitate monitoring and analysis of product availability
• Oversee interfacing with vendor partners to resolve data discrepancies and ensure performance expectations are being met
• Contribute analyses to internal business review meetings that improve business insights
• Contribute to market access strategy development for pre-commercial and commercial assets
• Participate in Vimseltinib brand and launch planning, especially as it relates to all aspects of product access, channel development and pricing
• Serve as thought partner and access analytics SME on all access related topics

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant business experience in marketing, finance, analytics, clinical, management consulting, pharmaceutical solutions supplier or related field
• Experience utilizing advanced data query & processing tools (e.g. R, SQL, Python)
• Demonstrated success partnering across the commercial organization to translate specialty pharmacy and specialty distribution analytics and insights into actionable recommendations
• 5+ years of experience in insights or analytics, with a preferred focus in market access, patient services or pharmaceutical channels/distribution
• Demonstrated skill communicating data, models and analyses to non-technical audiences
• Experience working with Rx, patient claims, patient service centers (i.e. HUB and copay data), and managed markets data sources (e.g. SHS, Specialty Pharmacy data, Specialty Distributor/3PL data, Fingertip formulary, MMIT, etc.)
• Experience working in a small start-up or recently commercialized biopharmaceutical organization, preferably in oral oncology and where systems are still evolving; maintains a ‘no job is too big or too small’ attitude
• Demonstrated experience shaping and influencing organizational decision-making

Technical Skill Requirements

• Knowledge across a broad spectrum of analytic approaches / data sources and ability to identify appropriate approach to address key business questions
• Expertise in domain specific data sets of pharma and payer data
• Strength in storytelling, data visualization and developing effective presentations
• Strong learning agility and demonstrated success solving ambiguous business issues
• Proficiency with Microsoft applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)

Additional Information

What Deciphera will Bring:

Deciphera offers competitive compensation, including equity-based compensation, and a comprehensive benefits package that includes the following:

• Internal rewards and recognition program
• An annual lifestyle allowance
• Global, company-wide summer and winter shutdowns
• Summer vacation bonus

Deciphera (NASDAQ: DCPH) is a publicly traded company headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. Our state-of-the-art research facility is located in Lawrence, Kansas and our European operations are run out of Switzerland.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY INFORMATION

Deciphera is committed to equal employment opportunity and values diversity. To ensure that we comply with reporting requirements and to learn more about how we can increase diversity in our candidate pool, we invite you to voluntarily provide demographic information in a confidential survey at the end of this application. Providing this information is optional. It will not be accessible or used in the hiring process, and has no effect on your opportunity for employment. This information will also be treated confidentially. Our commitment to increasing diversity in our candidate pool does not affect our commitment to equal employment opportunity, including our ongoing commitment to make all hiring and other employment decisions solely on a nondiscriminatory basis.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY INFORMATION

Deciphera is committed to equal employment opportunity and values diversity. To ensure that we comply with reporting requirements and to learn more about how we can increase diversity in our candidate pool, we invite you to voluntarily provide demographic information in a confidential survey at the end of this application. Providing this information is optional. It will not be accessible or used in the hiring process, and has no effect on your opportunity for employment. This information will also be treated confidentially. Our commitment to increasing diversity in our candidate pool does not affect our commitment to equal employment opportunity, including our ongoing commitment to make all hiring and other employment decisions solely on a nondiscriminatory basis.