Vice President Market Access, US

POSITION SUMMARY

The Vice President, Market Access is primarily responsible for developing and executing market access strategies (coding, coverage, payment, pricing and health technology assessments) for Inspire’s products in the US markets.

Other responsibilities include evaluating the reimbursement risk associated with technologies under development by Inspire, or external technology investment opportunities.

Director staff may report to and support this role, dependent on business need.

The information below covers the role requirements, expected candidate experience, and accompanying qualifications.

The primary purpose of this role is to provide market access support for Inspire US products. This includes understanding the commercial objectives and timelines of Inspire, developing and executing market access strategies to help achieve these objectives, and regularly communicating on progress against these objectives.

The Vice President of Market Access coordinates with other members of the market access team when multi-national market access opportunities exist, collaborates with colleagues providing US customer reimbursement support, and partners with colleagues in clinical and sales as needed.

The primary goal of the Vice President Market Access is to gain access to payer and provider networks, and support U.S. and international commercial leadership to achieve business objectives.

MAIN DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES

This role plays an integral part within Inspire function with a goal to :

• Establish market access projects and timelines as part of the overall strategic plan.
• Ensure transparency of issues and decisions while collaborating with the commercial team to make decisions related to market access.
• Lead market access direct reports to achieve the team’s objectives.
• Develop significant disease state and product expertise, to enable engagement in comprehensive discussions with payers and administrators to discuss and position outcomes of clinical studies and clinical literature to guide development of positive coverage decisions.
• Strengthen Inspire’s relationships with payers and providers by recognizing and proactively planning to meet the unique needs of different payer and provider segments, including government programs, managed care plans and innovative providers accepting financial risk.
• Lead any efforts to gain both interim and permanent coding, coverage and payment for Inspire products.
• Develop relationships with providers and medical societies who can advocate to payers on Inspire’s behalf.
• Work closely with market access colleagues and commercial team to develop health economic and reimbursement solutions, tools, programs, strategies, value dossiers, and cost-effectiveness studies, and monitor their effectiveness.
• Develop market access strategies and provide education to end-user customers as well as internal customers.
• Oversee pricing actions on behalf of the Market Access team, collaborating with sales on pricing and contract pricing terms, ensuring understanding of interrelationships of proposed pricing or customer contracting and market access strategies.
• Develop and maintain communication and collaboration with all Market Access team members to ensure the sharing of best practices.
• Provide insights and key inputs regarding collaborative development of Market Access strategies, including development of policy positions in the U.S. Market.
• Ensure the team stays abreast of developing external trends, policies and reports related business threats or opportunities to Inspire senior leadership as well as Sales team, Compliance or Regulatory where appropriate.
• Ensure that business operations are conducted in compliance with all applicable rules, laws and codes, protecting the Company’s interests and minimizing or mitigating risks.
• Ensure that all work is accomplished and in accordance with Inspire Values - quality and responsiveness are key.

QUALITY SYSTEM RESPONSIBILITIES

Document product and therapy related field reports within the prescribed timelines and provide any necessary documents required to complete the investigation.

Provide follow-up reporting as needed.

• Complete training requirements and competency confirmations as required for this position within the required timeline.
• Comply with applicable quality system procedures / policies and make suggestions for continuous process improvement.
• Ensure all direct reports maintain training records and comply with applicable quality standards.

QUALIFICATIONS Educational Requirements :

Required

Bachelor’s degree in related field such as engineering, biology, marketing, finance, health policy, or health economics with a minimum of 15 years experience in market access or reimbursement.

Preferred

Advanced degree in a related field such as MBA, MS Engineering, health policy, or health economics.

Required Experience :

• Significant experience in leadership roles
• Proven industry track record in Market Access within the Medical Device (primarily) and Pharmaceutical industry
• Product launch experience from a market access perspective

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