Field Reimbursement Manager - San Diego, CA

Join our industry-leading BioPharmaceuticals team at AstraZeneca, where you can make an impact on patients with our leading pipeline! This field-based role supports the Oncology teams and is based in San Diego, CA. The geography includes San Diego County, Riverside County, South Orange County and Hawaii. 

As a Field Reimbursement Manager (FRM), your role is to minimize reimbursement barriers for patients and providers, optimizing access to AstraZeneca products in the assigned therapeutic area. 

Accountabilities:

The Field Reimbursement Manager (FRM) role is to minimize reimbursement barriers for patients and providers and, therefore, optimize access to AstraZeneca products in the assigned therapeutic area. This purpose will be achieved by delivering consultations and interventions with key physicians and institutional customers through specialized services.  

FRMs will work closely with Managed Markets, Trade & Sales partners in the field, supporting targeted accounts in resolving reimbursement issues or concerns, developing ethical and customer-oriented reimbursement strategies, and proactively communicating payer criteria/terms and practices.  

As a Field Reimbursement Manager, you will work closely with Managed Markets, Trade & Sales partners in the field, supporting targeted accounts in resolving reimbursement issues or concerns. You will develop ethical and customer-oriented reimbursement strategies and proactively communicate payer criteria/terms and practices. You will also maintain a high level of Managed Care and related Managed Markets benefit structures, reimbursement mechanisms, legal and regulatory influences, and health management programs. 

At AstraZeneca, we are taking bold action on climate because we recognize the connection between healthy people and a healthy planet. As part of our flagship Ambition Zero Carbon program, we have committed to a fully electric vehicle (EV) fleet by the end of 2030, which means that all of our drivers will be assigned an EV. 

Compliance, Knowledge, & Skills Needed:

• Does not compromise ethics or integrity, or undertake legal risks while pursuing business goals  

• Demonstrates leadership among peers by consistent application & modeling of appropriate compliance, behavior & conduct  

• Ability to diagnosis complex market and customer problems and propose practical, effective and simple solutions  

Reimbursement Related Experience:

• Experience with physician-administered injectables preferred  

• Excellent reimbursement expertise and payer knowledge preferred  

• Knowledge and experience of legal and regulatory requirements related to the Biotech / Pharmaceutical industries  

• Spends majority of time visiting customer accounts in the field  

• Works with manager, peers and partners in Marketing, Sales and various Managed Markets and Trade groups to review/understand relevant franchise and managed care business plans, tactics, goals, and objectives  

• Spends considerable time and effort working with field partners in Sales reviewing their territory business plans and progress  

• Help to identify reimbursement-specific opportunities or issues, as well as educating partners on the payer landscape  

Job Knowledge:

• Maintain a high level of Managed Care and related Managed Markets benefit structures, reimbursement mechanisms, legal and regulatory influences, and health management programs  

• Maintain consistent ability to access and influence key business decision-makers  

• Maintain an outstanding level of Multiple Therapeutic Area knowledge, utilization management techniques, treatment, and reimbursement guidelines  

• Maintain an outstanding level of performance metric analytics  

• Maintain an outstanding ability to prepare and present provider level communications  

Planning and Analysis:

• Maintain an outstanding level of territory planning, organization, and administrative skills  

• Lead territory and all assigned accounts within a set budget  

• Develop and support budgeting requests for specific customer programs  

Communications:

• Demonstrate strong oral, written, and group interpersonal skills  

• Maintain frequent contact with Field Leadership and local field staff  

• In a timely and accurate manner, submit all budgetary information, expenses reports, and required administrative reports to Field Leadership  

• Maintain effective communication with customers and affiliates  

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Bachelors Degree 

• Minimum of 5 years of total business experience in the healthcare or pharmaceutical/biotech industry 

• Minimum of 2 or more years' sales, managed care or reimbursement experience 

• This job is a field-based role supporting the Oncology teams and is based in the San Diego, CA area. The geography includes San Diego County, Riverside County, South Orange County and Hawaii. 

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• MBA or other related graduate-level degree 

• Two to four years of Biotech or Pharmaceutical Sales experience 

• Two to four years of Managed Markets experience 

• Oncology, Infectious Disease, Respiratory, Inflammation, Autoimmune, Cardiovascular and Neuroscience experience 

• Experience with business planning and market analysis 

• Experience in implementing valuable programs and advisory programs 

At AstraZeneca, we use our unique position as medical leaders across our enterprise and the healthcare ecosystem to shape the future of Healthcare. There's so much opportunity here as we continue to grow - no better place to improve patients' lives and develop with AstraZeneca. We're hybrids - a fusion of scientific knowledge with business acumen - we know which products are launching, we know the science behind them and their place in real world medical practice. We are networkers and influencers by nature. In our role as scientific ambassadors, we thrive on working with people internally and externally. 

Are you ready to be at the forefront of healthcare innovation? Join our thriving BioPharmaceuticals team today! 

The annual base salary (or hourly rate of compensation) for this position ranges from $181,856 - $242,785. Our positions offer eligibility for various incentives—an opportunity to receive short-term incentive bonuses, equity-based awards for salaried roles and commissions for sales roles. Benefits offered include qualified retirement programs, paid time off (i.e., vacation, holiday, and leaves), as well as health, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms of the applicable plans.

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