National Director, Regional Access Team

The role

The National Director, Regional Access Team will build, launch, and lead a Regional Access organization. This leader will develop launch readiness plans and manage a team to support patient access to a potentially newly FDA-approved therapy for a rare endocrine disease.

What you will do

• Build and execute the regional access launch readiness plan.
• Define launch milestones, deployment plans, and access playbooks.
• Recruit, onboard, coach, and develop a Regional Access team.
• Establish roles, responsibilities, KPIs, and management processes.
• Conduct regional rides, coaching sessions, and business reviews.
• Ensure compliant reimbursement and access education for HCPs and stakeholders.
• Develop a national execution framework for customer education.
• Identify and escalate access barriers through approved channels.
• Partner with Patient Services, Specialty Pharmacy, and HUB Operations.
• Synthesize regional intelligence into actionable insights.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of pharmaceutical, biotech, market access, patient services, reimbursement, specialty pharmacy, or related commercial experience, including regional leadership.
• Proven experience building, launching, scaling, and leading regional access, reimbursement, patient access, or market access teams in a complex specialty or rare disease environment.
• Demonstrated ability to recruit, onboard, coach, and develop high-performing regional teams.
• Experience leading teams through product launch readiness.
• Deep knowledge of pharmacy benefit access, specialty pharmacy, prior authorization, step therapy, denials and appeals, payer policy, HUB services, and HCP workflows.
• Strong knowledge of regional payers, state Medicaid, IDN and health-system access pathways, institutional formulary processes, EMR workflows, and specialty pharmacy distribution models.
• Track record of partnering effectively across Market Access, Sales, Patient Services, Specialty Pharmacy, Trade, Commercial Operations, Medical, Legal, Compliance, Training, and Analytics.
• Ability to translate complex payer, provider, specialty pharmacy, and patient journey insights into compliant regional strategies.
• Strong executive presence, communication skills, business acumen, and ability to influence without authority.
• Ability to travel 50% to 60%, including overnight travel by air and automobile.
• Access to a work setting that enables meeting all role requirements including reliable internet, phone, and video conferencing.

Benefits

• Competitive base pay
• Annual performance-based bonuses
• Equity awards
• Comprehensive benefits package

Before you apply

• Unable to hire employees who reside and/or work in certain states.
• Not considering applicants from Alaska and Hawaii.

About the company

Amylyx is a clinical-stage company focused on post-bariatric hypoglycemia (PBH), Wolfram syndrome, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The company has a mission to treat diseases with high unmet needs.