Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Travere Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to improving the lives of individuals with rare diseases. The Manager of Payer Analytics & Operations will be responsible for generating insights to optimize payer strategies and improve patient access to therapies, collaborating with various teams to enhance reporting and decision-making processes.
Responsibilities
- Analyze payer coverage, reimbursement, and policy dynamics across Commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid channels
- Assess access barriers (e.g., prior authorizations, step edits, denials) and quantify impact to patient access
- Generate insights from claims, hub, and patient services data to identify trends in utilization and adherence
- Monitor and report on key performance indicators such as time-to-fill, approval rates, and therapy persistence
- Develop and deliver recurring insights to inform Patient Access strategy and leadership decision-making
- Translate complex datasets into clear, actionable recommendations for cross-functional stakeholders
- Identify risks and opportunities related to payer performance and patient access
- Own and evolve dashboards supporting payer performance, field reimbursement, and patient access
- Partner with IT and data engineering teams to enhance reporting capabilities, automation, and ensure data accuracy, consistency, and usability across systems
- Serve as the primary point of contact for external data vendors (e.g., claims aggregators, data providers)
- Support payer contracting strategy through data-driven insights and scenario analyses
- Evaluate impact of payer agreements on access, utilization, and financial performance
- Partner with Pricing & Contracting to inform decision-making for both in-line and pipeline products
- Contribute to business planning cycles, including quarterly reviews and long-range planning and act as a strategic thought partner to cross-functional stakeholders
- Lead multiple analytical projects by implementing solutions, ensuring progress per timelines and scope, and coordinating readout of results
- Demonstrate strong biopharma understanding and business intelligence to present data to get a clear understanding of our current performance and trends across multiple perspectives
- Demonstrate attention to detail, validating and verifying data for accuracy and completeness prior to publishing materials to business stakeholders. Communicate and work with team members to mitigate data variances or challenges should they occur
- Ensure all reporting and analytics activities are conducted in accordance with ethical compliance guidelines
Skills
- Bachelor's degree required
- 5+ years of relevant work experience in an analyst capacity in the pharmaceutical industry
- Expertise in analytics, particularly in technical data curation, integration across multiple data sets, data structuring, and data manipulation skills
- Strong understanding of pharmaceutical data with demonstrated experience in specialty pharmacy, hub, claims, and industry data sources (e.g., IQVIA, Symphony)
- Expert level user and modeler within MS Excel application
- Excellent analytical reasoning and problem-solving capabilities with demonstrated abilities to think creatively and strategically to solve and answer key business questions/problems
- Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills, with a professional demeanor, with the ability to interact with all levels of management, colleagues within other departments and vendors
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to present at a management level and the capability to dive into details when needed
- Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to multitask and prioritize
- Ability to travel 10% to 20% domestic and internationally
- All positions have an essential job function to be able to perform face to face work with colleagues and/or onsite in San Diego
- Masters / MBA preferred
- Alteryx and/or SAS/Power BI experience a plus
- Strong PowerPoint and presentation skills preferred
Benefits
- Premium health, financial, work-life and well-being offerings for eligible employees and dependents
- Wellness and employee support programs
- Life insurance
- Disability
- Retirement plans with employer match
- Generous paid time off
- Combination of both cash compensation (base pay and short-term incentive) and long-term incentive compensation (company stock)
Company Overview
Travere discovers and develops drugs for the treatment of catastrophic diseases that are debilitating and often life-threatening. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in San Diego, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://travere.com/.