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Vice President, Access, Value Evidence & Pricing

Rocket Pharmaceuticals

Cranbury, NJOnsitePosted 47 days ago$281,000 - $393,000
Full TimeDirector & AboveCommercial & Pharma SalesBiotechnology
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Summary

The Vice President, Access, Value Evidence & Pricing, is responsible for shaping the global value, pricing, reimbursement, evidence, and patient access strategy for the company's portfolio of gene therapies. Reporting to the Chief Commercialization Officer, this leader will build and lead an integrated value, access, and pricing function spanning U.S. payer strategy, reimbursement strategy, HEOR and evidence generation, access policy, international access, trade and channel strategy, patient services, and payer access to genetic testing for genetic cardiomyopathies.

Job description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as Rocket's senior leader for value, pricing, and patient access strategy.
  • Represent global value, access & pricing perspective, partnering with Global Product Heads and cross-functional leaders to drive access strategy, evidence planning, launch sequencing, and lifecycle decision-making from early development through commercialization.
  • Provide strategic input into portfolio prioritization, business planning, launch readiness, and external communications by translating payer, HTA, policy, pricing, reimbursement, diagnostic access, and access dynamics into enterprise-level recommendations.
  • Partner with the Chief Commercialization Officer, Executive Leadership Team, and other senior stakeholders to assess access opportunities, reimbursement risks, pricing considerations, evidence needs, diagnostic access requirements, and advice on long-term access outlook for Rocket's portfolio.
  • Develop and maintain enterprise-level access readiness dashboards and KPIs spanning payer access, reimbursement outcomes, patient access performance, treatment center access barriers, genetic testing coverage and pull-through, pricing assumptions, and pull-through effectiveness.
  • Develop and execute Rocket's integrated global pricing and market access strategy across U.S. commercial and government payers, international markets and access archetypes, HTA bodies, ensuring sustainable patient access and commercial viability.
  • Anticipate, monitor and translate emerging international access and policy frameworks and development, international reference pricing dynamics, diagnostic testing coverage trends, and gene therapy-specific payment models, into enterprise portfolio and launch strategy.
  • Lead U.S. market access, pricing, and reimbursement strategy across commercial and government payers, IDNs, launch pricing, gross-to-net assumptions, and innovative access models.
  • Translate U.S. healthcare policy, payer management, diagnostic testing coverage, site-of-care dynamics, and gene therapy payment trends into portfolio strategy, launch planning, and genetic testing access pathways for genetic cardiomyopathies.
  • Partner with cross-functional launch team to shape US treatment center selection strategy.
  • Lead U.S. treatment center readiness for patient services, HUB operations, genetic testing access resources, and trade, distribution, and channel strategy to ensure payer, reimbursement, patient support, and operational requirements are embedded into launch readiness and sustained across the product lifecycle.
  • Lead Rocket’s HEOR, evidence generation, and value demonstration strategy across the portfolio to support payer decision-making, HTA and reimbursement requirements, genetic testing access, clinical development planning, evidence packages, publications, payer communications, and regulatory and post-approval evidence strategy.
  • Build, lead, and scale a high-performing value, access, and pricing organization with the talent, governance, processes, capabilities, culture, and compliance standards needed to support Rocket’s growing portfolio and enterprise objectives.
  • Shape access policy and external engagement by building senior relationships with payers, HTA and reimbursement authorities, policy stakeholders, treatment centers, advocacy organizations, channel partners, and industry coalitions to advance sustainable access to cell and gene therapies.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree required.
  • Advanced degree (MBA, PharmD, PhD, MD, MPH) strongly preferred; significant gene therapy expertise may be considered in lieu of a specific degree requirement.
  • 15+ years of progressive commercial leadership experience in biopharmaceuticals, with demonstrated expertise spanning market access, pricing, HEOR, and patient access in large and emerging company environments.
  • Demonstrated experience leading or influencing value, access, and pricing strategy at the product, portfolio, and enterprise level.
  • Deep expertise in U.S. Buy & Bill and specialty pharmacy reimbursement, commercial and government payer strategy, and the specific access and distribution dynamics of complex cell and gene therapies; prior launch experience in gene therapy or innovative treatments strongly preferred.
  • Proven track record designing and executing innovative reimbursement models, including outcomes-based contracting, installment payments, managed entry agreements, and risk-sharing arrangements relevant to high-cost therapies.
  • Functional leadership experience across two or more of the following domains: trade and distribution, patient services, HUB operations, payer marketing, HEOR, government affairs-adjacent policy engagement.
  • Strong executive presence, influence, strategic judgment, communication skills, and ability to operate as a peer and strategic partner to executive leaders and key senior stakeholders.
  • Excellent strategic thinking skills with demonstrated comfort in novel and ambiguous environments where precedent does not exist and frameworks must be built from scratch.
  • Outstanding written, verbal, and presentation skills with the ability to translate complex payer, reimbursement, and evidence concepts for executive, investor, and policy audiences.
  • Willingness to travel domestically and internationally (minimum 40%).

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree required.
  • Advanced degree (MBA, PharmD, PhD, MD, MPH) strongly preferred; significant gene therapy expertise may be considered in lieu of a specific degree requirement.
  • 15+ years of progressive commercial leadership experience in biopharmaceuticals, with demonstrated expertise spanning market access, pricing, HEOR, and patient access in large and emerging company environments.
  • Demonstrated experience leading or influencing value, access, and pricing strategy at the product, portfolio, and enterprise level.
  • Deep expertise in U.S. Buy & Bill and specialty pharmacy reimbursement, commercial and government payer strategy, and the specific access and distribution dynamics of complex cell and gene therapies; prior launch experience in gene therapy or innovative treatments strongly preferred.
  • Proven track record designing and executing innovative reimbursement models, including outcomes-based contracting, installment payments, managed entry agreements, and risk-sharing arrangements relevant to high-cost therapies.
  • Functional leadership experience across two or more of the following domains: trade and distribution, patient services, HUB operations, payer marketing, HEOR, government affairs-adjacent policy engagement.
  • Strong executive presence, influence, strategic judgment, communication skills, and ability to operate as a peer and strategic partner to executive leaders and key senior stakeholders.
  • Excellent strategic thinking skills with demonstrated comfort in novel and ambiguous environments where precedent does not exist and frameworks must be built from scratch.
  • Outstanding written, verbal, and presentation skills with the ability to translate complex payer, reimbursement, and evidence concepts for executive, investor, and policy audiences.
  • Willingness to travel domestically and internationally (minimum 40%).

Benefits

  • Equity participation
  • 401(k) matching
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid vacation
  • Paid holidays
  • Wellness resources

Company overview

Rocket Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: RCKT) is a fully integrated, late-stage biotechnology company advancing a sustainable pipeline of investigational genetic therapies designed to correct the root cause of complex and rare disorders. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cranbury, New Jersey, the company employs a platform-agnostic approach to develop both lentiviral vector (LVV) and adeno-associated virus (AAV) based gene therapies. Rocket's innovative multi-platform strategy allows them to design optimal gene therapies for each indication, creating potentially transformative treatment options for patients with devastating rare diseases. The company's clinical pipeline targets severe genetic disorders including Danon Disease (a devastating pediatric heart failure condition), Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency-I (LAD-I), Fanconi Anemia (FA), Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency (PKD), and PKP2-arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy. Rocket has established itself as a leader in the gene therapy space with multiple Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designations from the FDA and a strong focus on developing one-time, potentially curative treatments for inherited cardiovascular and hematological diseases. The company operates with approximately 201-500 employees and maintains research and manufacturing facilities to support clinical development from discovery through pivotal trials.

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