Payer Account Lead Jobs

MISSION

Mirum Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming the treatment of rare liver diseases affecting children and adults. Propelled by our passion for patients and their families, we’re focused on turning possibilities into realities. Using data and meaningful evidence, our goal is to transform scientific discoveries into therapies that are poised to positively impact the treatment of rare liver diseases. We are collaborative, creative, and experienced professionals and we’re looking to augment our team with other individuals who embody our values: care, be real, get it done, and have fun, seriously. Learn more about our work, our culture, and what it’s like to be a part of our team:

Postion Summary

The Payer Account Lead is responsible for oversight of assigned payers, IDNs, and emerging account relationships for Mirum Pharmaceuticals. This role will be tasked with positioning Mirum as an innovator in the cholestatic liver disease space, establishing access for Mirum’s portfolio of products, ensuring that account clinical criteria are aligned to evidence-based medicine, and working with accounts to position maralixibat early in the treatment paradigm prior to patients progressing to liver transplant.

Job Functions/Responsibilities

• Align utilization management criteria to label, evidence-based guidelines, and commercial brand strategy
• Create an urgency in strategic & emerging accounts that prioritizes mutually beneficial business outcomes without the need for direct contracting
• Advance account specific reimbursement tactics, messaging, and resources for field sales
• Develop and execute business strategies that establish Mirum Pharmaceuticals and our transformative pipeline of products as an innovator in the cholestatic liver disease space.
• Lead by example in dealing with new and ambiguous situations
• Develop resources to support maralixibat
• Establish formulary access and influence change within assigned accounts
• Work across the account (medical, pharmacy, case management) to improve the disease journey for patients
• Understand key customer issues such as legislation, public policy, mergers & acquisitions, IT capabilities, inventory management/distribution, and competitive activity
• Educate internal constituents on customers and emerging trends in the market
• Establish and maintain formulary access in assigned accounts
• Work with strategic partners to implement initiatives that prioritize maralixibat early in treatment in order to lower the incidence of members progressing to liver transplant
• Maintain a comprehensive knowledge of market and key customer issues
• Progress strategies for difficult to access accounts/segments
• Represent Mirum Pharmaceuticals in all business-to-business discussions in assigned payer, IDNs, and emerging accounts
• Understand common reimbursement challenges and work with internal and external partners to streamline fulfillment processes
• Lead workstreams and projects as assigned
• Other project work as assigned
• Represent the interest of Mirum Pharmaceuticals with the highest regard in reference to compliant, legal, and ethical behavior
• Leverage a strong understanding of the national, regional, and local healthcare environment
• Project manage vendor owned initiatives that offer tools to support Market Access (data, market research, etc.)
• Position Mirum as an innovative organization poised to invoke real change in the treatment of cholestatic liver disease, and transform the standard of care

Qualifications

Education/Experience:

• Advanced degree preferred (MD, PharmD, MBA)
• Candidates with 8 or more years of large account management experience, experience working for a managed care organization, experience with rare disease, and those with specialty pharmacy experience are preferred
• Possess strong negotiation capabilities and demonstrated experience in rebate contracting
• Experience with specialty pharmacy is required
• 8 years of experience in 2 or more of the following functions is required: National and Regional Payer Account Management, Patient Services/HUB, Reimbursement, Specialty Pharmacy, Clinical Pharmacy Decision Making, Sales Leadership, Commercial Operations, Market Access, Marketing, Medical Affairs, Managed Care Pharmacy, and Rare Disease

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate efficiently with people in diverse settings.
• Proactively collaborates with the field to help identify and address opportunities and barriers to access and uptake
• Leverages existing relationships in national and regional payers
• Ability to fiercely prioritize, work well in ambiguity, be decisive, manage time, and be forward thinking
• Subject matter expert within the Market Access space, including knowledge of pharmacy and medical benefit design, recent legislative changes, commercial, Medicaid (state and managed), and Medicare.
• Demonstrated ability to manage through significant change
• Ability to partner with other customer facing teams and ensure customer needs are met
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time
• Demonstrated experience managing large cross functional groups and projects is required
• Employ strong organizational and analytical skills to optimize growth, including the ability to analyze complex data to develop strategic and actionable business plans
• Influences without authority and successfully collaborates and negotiates to align cross-functional interests.
• Ability to anticipate and resolve problems effectively.

Mirum Pharmaceuticals is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all Federal, State and Local laws that prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of race, age, national origin, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, genetic disposition or characteristics, disability, veteran’s status or any other classification protected by applicable State/Federal/Local laws.

Mirum Pharmaceuticals provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in job application procedures.