Sr. Director, Contracts & Pricing - Lifelancer

Azurity Pharmaceuticals is a privately held, specialty pharmaceutical company that focuses on innovative products that meet the needs of underserved patients. As an industry leader in providing unique, accessible, and high-quality medications, Azurity leverages its integrated capabilities and vast partner network to continually expand its broad commercial product portfolio and robust late-stage pipeline. The company’s patient-centric products span the cardiovascular, neurology, endocrinology, gastro-intestinal, institutional, and orphan markets, and have benefited millions of patients. For more information, visit www.azurity.com.

Azurity Pharmaceuticals is proud to be an inclusive workplace and an Equal Opportunity Employer. Azuritys success is attributable to our incredibly talented, dedicated team that focuses on benefiting the lives of patients by bringing the best science and commitment to quality into everything that we do. We seek highly motivated individuals with the dedication, integrity, and creative spirit needed to thrive in our organization.

Azurity is seeking a dynamic and financially skilled Senior Director of Government, Contracts Pricing. This role reports to the Vice President of Market Access and Strategic Accounts and will serve as the functional lead for Azurity’s Commercial and Government Contracting Strategy and Pricing Committee. The Senior Director, Government, Contracts and Pricing will be working with a diverse portfolio, across the various US government and commercial payer systems.

Job Duties Responsibilities

• Lead the development and structure of all pricing documents for presentation to the Pricing Committee
• Provide guidance to senior leadership on performance, business risks and opportunities
• Collaborate with Marketing Team to ensure overall contracting strategies are in alignment with brand strategies
• Develop value driven, pricing guidelines to apply across product lines that optimize access and profitability
• Lead efforts to create and manage dashboards to report on key performance metrics, status and timelines for action against existing and future contracts
• Partner with Strategic Account Directors to advise on negotiations with their customers for profitable business, protecting Gross to Net (GTN)
• Oversee the contract development process, including pre and post-deal analysis, tracking and reporting
• Oversee the payment of rebates and fees, including analysis and auditing of invoices
• Collaborate with Finance and Commercial Ops, to ensure appropriate forecasting of list price, discounts and allowances to accurately report gross to net, including statutory government price calculations
• Subject matter expert on ASP based Pricing Models, Medicaid, Medicare, PHS/340B and VA/DOD pricing calculations
• Analyze and report performance against contracts to ensure compliance with agreed upon metrics and report to internal teams during regularly scheduled and ad hoc meetings
  
  

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree required, Advanced degree a plus
• 10+ years experience within the commercial pharmaceuticals/biotech industry with 5+ years working in a pricing and contracting analysis role.
• Strong business acumen and contracting experience with diverse payment models- GPO contracting experience a plus
• Current and relevant understanding of the market access landscape impacting pharmaceuticals, including headwinds, recent and impending legislation, government payment models and trends impacting providers and payers
• Organized business management style with attention to detail
• Comfortable presenting complex information with clarity and be receptive to challenges to assumptions
• High degree of integrity and ethics and support of Azurity’s core values
  
  

Physical Mental Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Must be able to sit for long periods of time
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; talk and/or hear
• May occasionally climb stairs and/or ride elevators
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
• Employee must be able to manipulate keyboard, operate a telephone and hand-held devices
• Other miscellaneous job duties as required
  
  

Benefits We Offer:

• Unlock Your Earning Potential: Join our team and be rewarded with a competitive compensation package, including an annual bonus based on company performance, that recognizes your exceptional talent.
• Sales - In lieu of annual bonuses, we offer an Incentive compensation program that allows you to earn more - even over plan.
• Fuel Your Success: *Sales Only* - We understand the value of your hard work and provide a car reimbursement program and gas card for both business and personal use as part of our commitment to supporting you.
  
• Comprehensive Health Coverage: We value your well-being and offer excellent medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage to ensure you and your family are always taken care of.
• Flexibility for Your Lifestyle: Achieve work-life balance with our hybrid work model, allowing you to work two days from home and three days in the office. *Excludes Sales, Manufacturing, and some Operations positions*
• Start Your Week on a High Note: Indulge in our “Bagel Tuesday” perk, where you can enjoy a fresh bagel on us every Tuesday morning. **Only for On-site/Hybrid colleagues**
• Invest in Your Future: Our Retirement Savings Plan (401K) is designed to help you secure a comfortable retirement by matching dollar for dollar up to 5%.
• Time Off That Counts: Take advantage of our generous PTO policy, which offers 20 days annually + rollover (up to 40 hours).
• Meaningful Time with Your Loved Ones: We close between Christmas and New Year’s to give you an extra week off to spend quality time with your family and recharge.
• Enjoy the Holidays: Over the course of the year, Azurity recognizes 13 holidays.
• Summer Vibes: Embrace the summer season with our Summer-Hours perk, available between Memorial Day and Labor Day. **Excludes Sales Colleagues**
• Invest in Your Education: We support your professional growth with tuition reimbursement for undergraduate and graduate level courses or certifications.
• Recognize and Be Recognized: Our Azurity High Five peer recognition platform allows you to celebrate your colleagues accomplishments and receive recognition for your own outstanding work.
  
  

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