Associate Director, Governance & Operations

The Associate Director Governance & Operations plays a critical role in enabling compliant highquality execution of Market Access engagements across AstraZenecas U.S. business. This position serves as the operational owner and Secretariat of the Advanced Customer Engagement Review Team (ACERT) overseeing governance processes that ensure alignment with regulatory expectations Fair Market Value (FMV) standards contracting policies and internal quality controls.

This role partners deeply with Market Access Medical Affairs Commercial Access Strategy Compliance Legal Finance Service Strategy and external vendors to ensure all programs engagements and analytics are appropriately evaluated documented and addition the leader oversees FMV methodologies programlevel analytics and CMS Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) rulealigned documentation including Reasonable Assumptions and certification requirements.

Accountabilities

• Serve as Secretariat and operational lead for ACERT ensuring timely compliant and highquality governance reviews.

• Advise program owners on business proposals and determine the appropriate review complexity and governance pathway.

• Lead the FMV evaluation framework including oversight of analytic processes vendor reports and interpretation of data to support FMV decisions.

• Provide guidance to contracting teams to ensure governance decisions translate into compliant contract execution.

• Maintain robust auditready documentation including FMV analyses decision rationales and approval artifacts.

• Identify opportunities for cost savings through use of FMV tools and leveraging prior FMV reports through vendor

• Oversee governance alignment with CMS PFS rule requirements related to Service Agreements including certifications and reasonable assumptions documentation.

• Establish and maintain enterprise standards for documenting assumptions used in valuations cost analyses and engagement justifications.

• Partner with Legal Compliance and business sponsors to ensure all certifications are complete accurate and updated in accordance with CMS requirements.

• Conduct training and develop guidance materials to ensure consistent understanding across stakeholders.

• Maintain centralized governance repositories to ensure completeness accuracy and readiness for internal/external audits.

• Lead the development update and communication of governance processes systems policies templates training tools dashboards and analytic frameworks.

• Provide subjectmatter expertise on Bona Fide Service Fees (BFSF) AntiKickback and Safe Harbor regulations and other compliance standards.

• Own and manage relationships with external FMV vendors to ensure highquality deliverables clear SLAs and adherence to governance standards.

Essential Skills/Experience

• Bachelors degree required

• 5 years of experience in pharmaceutical biotech Market Access contracting compliance or related field.

• Strong working knowledge of FMV BFSF criteria AntiKickback/Safe Harbor principles and pharma regulations.

• Proven ability to lead crossfunctional governance teams and influence without authority.

• Demonstrated analytical capabilities including cost modeling data interpretation and decision rationale framing.

• Excellent communication relationshipbuilding and criticalthinking skills.

• High proficiency in MS Excel PowerPoint and Word.

Desirable Skills/Experience

• 5 years of pharma or healthcare industry experience

• Strong project management leadership business acumen and ability to manage multiple priorities processes timelines and expectations of multiple stakeholder groups

• Strong interpersonal skills and excellent verbal and written communication skills; able to engage with leadership at all levels of the organization; able to synthesize and concisely communicate team deliverables and accomplishments

• Experience with marketing operations including strategic oversight and execution of speaker bureau programs; strong comprehension of the legal and regulatory landscape in pharmaceutical promotions pharma industry guidelines and compliance considerations

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