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The Director, Market Access Analytics and Enablement will provide strategic leadership and assume full ownership across all data analytics, enablement tools, performance measurement, and project management activities that support the Americas Market Access Team. In this role, the Director will lead the proactive development and sustained execution of analytics frameworks, dashboards, and operational tools that inform decision-making and accelerate business outcomes. This individual will lead with urgency and directly oversee and mentor team members in designing and delivering high quality analyses that enable evaluation of medical policy coverage, coding utilization, billing and reimbursement metrics, and overall team effectiveness.

Success in this position requires an opportunity mindset, strong executive presence, demonstrated leadership capabilities, innovative thinking to drive actionable insights and tools, the ability to communicate complex insights clearly across senior and cross-functional stakeholders, and disciplined execution to meet critical deadlines. The Director will need to influence without authority by collaborating extensively with internal partners including Market Access, Field Reimbursement, Global Strategy, HEOR, Marketing, Sales, Product Development, Information Technology, Regulatory, and Medical & Scientific Affairs. Contracting oversight and management of consultants that provide key support services to the Americas Market Access Team is expected.

This position reports to the Senior Director of Market Access Americas as a manager of a growing team, is part of the Value and Access Department, and will be fully remote.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Lead and manage, with an opportunity mindset, a growing team within the Americas Market Access organization, providing leadership, coaching, direction, and performance oversight, including project managing key initiatives from end-to-end, ensuring timely delivery of tools and processes to enable business continuity.
• Assume full ownership of the development, refinement, and implementation of strategy for data analytics and enablement function including: development of market access enablement tools; market insights/trends generation; healthcare coding analyses (diagnosis codes, billing codes, code modifiers, etc.); pricing and fee schedule evaluations; payer coverage dashboards; team dashboards; analytics frameworks; operational tools; and utilization of AI-based tools to inform decision-making and accelerate business outcomes.
• Utilize Danaher Business Systems (DBS) components including but not limited to Daily Management (DM) metrics, Problem Solving Process (PSP), Bowler (metrics) reporting, and Action Plan (AP) adherence.
• Drive alignment with the Value & Access function and the broader Cepheid matrix organization, including influencing without authority, to ensure coordinated execution of Americas Market Access initiatives and effective communication with senior and cross functional stakeholders.
• Contribute to Americas Market Access team strategies, objectives and KPI development through proactive data- and analytics-based insights generation, tool development, and business process optimization.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of related work experience OR master's degree with 8+ years of healthcare analytics experience OR Doctoral degree in field with 5+ years of work experience.
• 6+ years experience with data analytics, including creating and deploying tools and dashboards leveraging large datasets, data warehouses (e.g. Snowflake), business analytics and data visualization platforms (SmartSheet, PowerBi, Excel), etc.
• 6+ years of demonstrated experience in successful project management.
• Negotiation and business development skills.
• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple projects/products and engage effectively with cross-functional groups and senior management as appropriate.

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:

• Ability to travel approximately 10% of the time, including overnight.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Healthcare coding (CPT, ICD-10, DRG) and reimbursement mechanisms, including reimbursement rate and insurance claims databases.
• Payer decision making processes, reimbursement rate setting, and compliance with federal program requirements.
• Reimbursement for medical devices, particularly in vitro diagnostic (IVD) laboratory tests is preferred.

Cepheid, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it's a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

At Cepheid we believe in designing a better, more sustainable workforce. We recognize the benefits of flexible, remote working arrangements for eligible roles and are committed to providing enriching careers, no matter the work arrangement. This position is eligible for a remote work arrangement in which you can work remotely from your home. Additional information about this remote work arrangement will be provided by your interview team. Explore the flexibility and challenge that working for Cepheid can provide.

The annual salary range for this role is $185,000-$215,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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