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Opportunity awaits those up to the challenge of developing transformative therapies across a broad range of debilitating diseases.
Summary:
The Director, SYFOVRE Market Access Strategy will lead the U.S. market access strategy for SYFOVRE, with responsibility for optimizing pricing, contracting, and payer/reimbursement marketing in the evolving retina marketplace. Reporting to the Head of Access Strategy for Retina and Nephrology/Hematology, this role will manage a team focused on payer and reimbursement marketing strategy and tactics, pricing and contracting initiatives, and support for payer, strategic accounts, and reimbursement field teams.As the senior market access lead for SYFOVRE, you will be ultimately accountable to the BNA Leadership Team for integrated access strategy and performance. You will lead a multidisciplinary team and partner across MA&R, Medical, Finance, Trade & Distribution, and the SYFOVRE franchise to anticipate market changes, address access barriers, and ensure access strategy is integrated with brand objectives.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Lead the integrated U.S. market access strategy for SYFOVRE and serve as the single point of accountability to the BNA Leadership Team for access performance, risks, and required actions.
- Lead pricing and contracting strategies that balance patient access, provider economics, competitive positioning, and sustainable net revenue.
- Lead payer and reimbursement marketing and optimize the buy-and-bill experience across coverage, coding, payment, acquisition economics, and operational barriers.
- Monitor evolving retina market dynamics, including competitive products, biosimilars, payer utilization management, provider economics, ASP trends, reimbursement, and policy changes; translate insights into brand strategy and long-range planning.
- Partner with Medical to identify evidence gaps and strengthen the SYFOVRE value proposition with payers and providers.
- Partner with Payer Accounts, Field Reimbursement, Strategic Accounts, Trade & Distribution, and other cross-functional teams to execute customer strategies and ensure effective pull-through of access priorities.
- Serve as a key member of the Retina and Nephrology/Hematology Access Strategy Leadership Team, ensuring market access considerations inform strategic and investment decisions.
- Provide leadership and strategic direction across functions, driving alignment and accountability for critical SYFOVRE access priorities.
Who You Are
You are a strategic, commercially minded market access leader who can translate complex payer, reimbursement, provider, and competitive dynamics into clear business strategies. You anticipate market change, build alignment across functions and levels, and mobilize teams to deliver business results in a buy-and-bill specialty market.
Required Skills
- Bachelor's degree required; MBA, MPH, or other advanced degree preferred.
- 12+ years of U.S. market access, payer marketing, reimbursement, pricing and contracting, or related pharmaceutical/biotechnology experience.
- Demonstrated experience developing and executing market access strategies for specialty or physician-administered products.
- Deep understanding of buy-and-bill reimbursement, including Medicare Part B, commercial payer dynamics, ASP-based reimbursement, provider economics, coding/payment, and site of care.
- Experience in payer/provider marketing, pricing and contracting, and translating access dynamics into actionable customer strategies.
- Ability to assess competitive market dynamics and develop strategies to protect or expand access.
- Proven ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives, analyze business issues, and influence senior stakeholders.
Preferred Skills
- Experience in ophthalmology, retina, or another physician-administered specialty market, including Medicare Part B and ASP-based reimbursement.
- Experience with retina practices, GPOs, health systems, specialty distributors, or other stakeholders in the buy-and-bill ecosystem.
- Experience managing access for an established brand in a market facing biosimilar, generic, or other significant price-based competition.
Work Arrangement:
HybridTravel Requirements:
10% Travel
Education:
Bachelor's DegreeBenefits and Perks:
Apellis offers a comprehensive benefits package, inclusive flexible time off, summer and winter shutdowns, paid family leave and more!
Company Background:
Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a global biopharmaceutical company leading the way in complement science to develop life-changing therapies for some of the most challenging diseases patients face. We ushered in the first new class of complement medicine in 15 years and now have two C3-targeting medicines approved to treat four serious diseases. Breakthroughs for patients include the first-ever therapy for geographic atrophy, a leading cause of blindness, and the first treatment for patients 12 and older with C3G or primary IC-MPGN, two severe, rare kidney diseases. We believe we have only begun to unlock the potential of targeting C3 across many serious diseases.
For more information, please visit http://apellis.com or follow us on LinkedIn and X .
Other Duties:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Opportunity awaits those up to the challenge of developing transformative therapies across a broad range of debilitating diseases.
Summary:
The Director, SYFOVRE Market Access Strategy will lead the U.S. market access strategy for SYFOVRE, with responsibility for optimizing pricing, contracting, and payer/reimbursement marketing in the evolving retina marketplace. Reporting to the Head of Access Strategy for Retina and Nephrology/Hematology, this role will manage a team focused on payer and reimbursement marketing strategy and tactics, pricing and contracting initiatives, and support for payer, strategic accounts, and reimbursement field teams.As the senior market access lead for SYFOVRE, you will be ultimately accountable to the BNA Leadership Team for integrated access strategy and performance. You will lead a multidisciplinary team and partner across MA&R, Medical, Finance, Trade & Distribution, and the SYFOVRE franchise to anticipate market changes, address access barriers, and ensure access strategy is integrated with brand objectives.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Lead the integrated U.S. market access strategy for SYFOVRE and serve as the single point of accountability to the BNA Leadership Team for access performance, risks, and required actions.
- Lead pricing and contracting strategies that balance patient access, provider economics, competitive positioning, and sustainable net revenue.
- Lead payer and reimbursement marketing and optimize the buy-and-bill experience across coverage, coding, payment, acquisition economics, and operational barriers.
- Monitor evolving retina market dynamics, including competitive products, biosimilars, payer utilization management, provider economics, ASP trends, reimbursement, and policy changes; translate insights into brand strategy and long-range planning.
- Partner with Medical to identify evidence gaps and strengthen the SYFOVRE value proposition with payers and providers.
- Partner with Payer Accounts, Field Reimbursement, Strategic Accounts, Trade & Distribution, and other cross-functional teams to execute customer strategies and ensure effective pull-through of access priorities.
- Serve as a key member of the Retina and Nephrology/Hematology Access Strategy Leadership Team, ensuring market access considerations inform strategic and investment decisions.
- Provide leadership and strategic direction across functions, driving alignment and accountability for critical SYFOVRE access priorities.
Who You Are
You are a strategic, commercially minded market access leader who can translate complex payer, reimbursement, provider, and competitive dynamics into clear business strategies. You anticipate market change, build alignment across functions and levels, and mobilize teams to deliver business results in a buy-and-bill specialty market.
Required Skills
- Bachelor's degree required; MBA, MPH, or other advanced degree preferred.
- 12+ years of U.S. market access, payer marketing, reimbursement, pricing and contracting, or related pharmaceutical/biotechnology experience.
- Demonstrated experience developing and executing market access strategies for specialty or physician-administered products.
- Deep understanding of buy-and-bill reimbursement, including Medicare Part B, commercial payer dynamics, ASP-based reimbursement, provider economics, coding/payment, and site of care.
- Experience in payer/provider marketing, pricing and contracting, and translating access dynamics into actionable customer strategies.
- Ability to assess competitive market dynamics and develop strategies to protect or expand access.
- Proven ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives, analyze business issues, and influence senior stakeholders.
Preferred Skills
- Experience in ophthalmology, retina, or another physician-administered specialty market, including Medicare Part B and ASP-based reimbursement.
- Experience with retina practices, GPOs, health systems, specialty distributors, or other stakeholders in the buy-and-bill ecosystem.
- Experience managing access for an established brand in a market facing biosimilar, generic, or other significant price-based competition.
Work Arrangement:
HybridTravel Requirements:
10% Travel
Education:
Bachelor's DegreeBenefits and Perks:
Apellis offers a comprehensive benefits package, inclusive flexible time off, summer and winter shutdowns, paid family leave and more!
Company Background:
Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a global biopharmaceutical company leading the way in complement science to develop life-changing therapies for some of the most challenging diseases patients face. We ushered in the first new class of complement medicine in 15 years and now have two C3-targeting medicines approved to treat four serious diseases. Breakthroughs for patients include the first-ever therapy for geographic atrophy, a leading cause of blindness, and the first treatment for patients 12 and older with C3G or primary IC-MPGN, two severe, rare kidney diseases. We believe we have only begun to unlock the potential of targeting C3 across many serious diseases.
For more information, please visit http://apellis.com or follow us on LinkedIn and X .
Other Duties:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
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- Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
- Healthcare & Medical Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in market access strategy jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in life sciences, health economics, pharmacy, or a related field
- Experience developing payer value dossiers and reimbursement submissions
- Knowledge of Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial managed care coverage and coding
- Proficiency in health economics and outcomes research methods including cost-effectiveness modeling
- Familiarity with HEOR tools such as TreeAge, Excel-based decision models, or R
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with medical affairs, pricing, and sales teams
Tips for Your Market Access Strategy Job Search
Quantify payer wins on your resume
Hiring managers in market access want proof of outcomes, not responsibilities. Replace vague bullet points with results like formulary tier achieved, time to reimbursement, or coverage expansion across a payer segment. Numbers from real projects set your resume apart immediately.
Tailor your resume to the payer mix
A role focused on Medicare Part D reads very differently from one targeting commercial managed care. Match your resume language to the payer landscape the job description emphasizes so recruiters see direct relevance before they finish the first page.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists market access strategy openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter openings by therapeutic area
Market access strategy roles in oncology carry different HEOR expectations than those in rare disease or primary care. Search by therapeutic area alongside job title to surface openings where your existing disease-state knowledge actually transfers and counts as a differentiator.
Prepare a reimbursement case study for interviews
Interviewers routinely ask candidates to walk through a coverage challenge they solved. Prepare one structured example covering the payer environment, your analytical approach, the submission or negotiation, and the formulary outcome. Generic frameworks without specifics rarely satisfy hiring panels in this field.
Negotiate total compensation against HEOR demand
Market access roles that require health economics modeling or outcomes research skills command a premium over pure account-management positions. Before accepting an offer, clarify whether the role is filed under market access or health economics internally, since that classification often determines the compensation band.
Market Access Strategy Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most market access strategists?
The companies hiring the most market access strategists right now include Gilead Sciences, Regeneron, and Ipsen, with the largest share of openings in Massachusetts, California, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Pharmaceutical manufacturers and specialty biotech firms consistently represent the largest share of postings.
How many market access strategy jobs are remote?
About 90% of market access strategy openings are fully remote or hybrid as of September 2026, with remote work most common in payer analytics, HEOR modeling, and reimbursement strategy roles. Positions that require regular engagement with regional payer account teams or field sales tend to be on-site or travel-heavy.
How do you become a market access strategist?
Most market access strategists start with a degree in pharmacy, health economics, life sciences, or public health, then build experience in managed care, medical affairs, or HEOR. Earning a credential such as a master's in health economics or an MBA with a healthcare focus accelerates progression. Hands-on work with formulary submissions, payer contracting, or outcomes modeling is the practical foundation hiring managers look for.
Can you get a market access strategy job with little experience?
Entry-level market access roles exist at consultancies and mid-size biotech companies, typically under titles like market access analyst or reimbursement associate. Candidates with internships in managed care, payer strategy, or health economics modeling are competitive even without full-time experience. Demonstrating familiarity with coverage and coding basics and understanding the U.S. payer landscape signals readiness to hiring teams at this level.
What does the market access strategy interview process look like?
The process typically begins with a recruiter screen focused on payer experience and therapeutic area background, followed by a hiring manager interview that probes strategic thinking around coverage challenges. Later rounds often include a case exercise asking you to outline a reimbursement strategy or analyze a payer scenario. Final panels frequently involve cross-functional stakeholders from medical affairs, pricing, or sales.
Where can I find and apply to market access strategy jobs?
You can find and apply to market access strategy jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience and therapeutic area focus, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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