The Sr. Manager, Contract Pricing and Analytics, is a cross-functional business partner developing and implementing pricing and contracting strategies for inline, launch, and pipeline products to support brand planning, forecasting and ensuring product access aligned with Company financial objectives.

The position will be part of a team providing a broad range of solutions and services across multiple payer channels (Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare Part D, Federal Accounts) and trade channels (Wholesaler, Specialty Pharmacy, Retail Pharmacy, Group Purchasing Organization, Specialty Distributor).  The position will report to the Associate Director, Contract Development.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide Gross-to-Net oversight through facilitation with relevant field and home office partners when evaluating contract proposals
• Perform customer level strategic analysis that informs current and future budgets/forecasts/LRP
• Support the development of channel and customer level pricing strategies that align with brand objectives
• Implement brand pricing and contracting strategies throughout the product lifecycle that align with optimal market performance
• Stay abreast of macro trends in the healthcare environment that potentially impact current and/or future product pricing, contracting and associated strategies across product portfolio
• Design and implement contracting evaluation analytics for pricing and contract strategies and proposal development.  Develop and implement performance metrics to support optimal pull-through of contracts
• Monitors existing customer contracts through development and implementation of performance methodologies, tools, etc.; includes identifying and recommending opportunities for improvement

Qualifications

Minimum Education & Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business/science/healthcare.  Master’s degree preferred
• 8+ years of strategic analytics experience, preferably in pharmaceutical payer and/or trade contracting

Preferred Skills and Knowledge Requirements:

• Knowledge of the healthcare industry and the role contracts play in the pharmaceutical ecosystem
• Experience supporting a sales and/or account management team preferred
• Ability to develop effective / collaborative working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.  Ability to understand business requirements, propose solutions, gain alignment and execute
• Analytical and problem-solving skills, a demonstrated ability to gather, understand, evaluate information from various sources 
• Strong commitment to providing excellent customer service
• Ability to coordinate and influence the efforts of cross-functional teams
• Ability to prioritize and manage concurrent and, occasionally, competing initiatives
• Understanding of industry code of conduct and ethics

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About Us

Why join Team Alkermes?

Alkermes applies its deep neuroscience expertise to develop medicines designed to help people living with complex and difficult-to-treat psychiatric and neurological disorders. A fully-integrated, global biopharmaceutical company, headquartered in Ireland with U.S. locations in Massachusetts and Ohio, we are committed to pursuing great science, driven by deep compassion to make a real impact in the lives of patients. Alkermes has a portfolio of proprietary commercial products for the treatment of alcohol dependence, opioid dependence, schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder, and a pipeline of clinical and preclinical candidates in development for various neurological disorders, including narcolepsy.

Beyond our important mission of developing medicines to address unmet patient needs, we actively seek to foster a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging throughout our business. We strive to ensure that all voices are respected and valued, recognizing that our diversity of thought, background and perspective makes us stronger. We are proud to have been recognized as an employer of choice by many national organizations, including being certified as a Great Place to Work in the U.S. in 2024, honored as a Healthiest Employer in both Ohio and Massachusetts in 2023, a Best Place for Working Parents in 2023, and to have received the Bell Seal at the Platinum level for Workplace Mental Health by Mental Health America for three consecutive years (2021-2023). 

Alkermes, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any qualified applicant or employee because of race, creed, color, age, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression and identity, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status, application for military service or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law.  Alkermes also complies with all work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA.  Alkermes is an E-Verify employer.