Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Posted August 18, 2026

National Account Director (NAD) – Emisar / Optum / UHC

Philadelphia, United States Full time
Market Access Director

Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is the source of truth for this posting and owns the application process. We surface normalized context and market comparison you won't find on the original listing.

About this opportunity

If you are a current Jazz employee please apply via the Internal Career site

Jazz Pharmaceuticals  is a global biopharma company whose purpose is to innovate to transform the lives of patients and their families. We are dedicated to developing life-changing medicines for people with serious diseases, often with limited or no therapeutic options. We have a diverse portfolio of marketed medicines, including leading therapies for sleep disorders and epilepsy, and a growing portfolio of cancer treatments. Our patient-focused and science-driven approach powers pioneering research and development advancements across our robust pipeline of innovative therapeutics in oncology and neuroscience. Jazz is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with research and development laboratories, manufacturing facilities and employees in multiple countries committed to serving patients worldwide. Please visit  www.jazzpharmaceuticals.com  for more information.

Job Description

Brief Description:

The National Account Director – Emisar / Optum / United is responsible for developing and managing all aspects of the relationship with the Emisar, Optum Rx and United Healthcare.  The National Account Director will represent the entire Jazz portfolio of products and be responsible for ensuring appropriate market access within assigned accounts. The National Account Director serves as the key Market Access point of contact for Emisar, Optum Rx and United Healthcare, across Commercial and Medicare books of business for Jazz Pharmaceuticals. The National Account Director will model the Jazz core values of integrity, passion, collaboration, innovation, and pursuit of excellence.

Essential Functions

Execute on market access strategies to ensure appropriate access for the Jazz portfolio of products within Commercial and Medicare books of business at Emisar, Optum Rx, and United Healthcare.

Establish broad and deep relationships within target accounts, with key decision-makers/influencers (e.g., pharmacy directors, medical directors, clinical decision makers) who impact coverage and reimbursement decisions.

Positively influence decision-makers, policies, guidelines, and contracts to facilitate timely and clinically appropriate coverage, access, and reimbursement for Jazz products.

Create, maintain, and execute stakeholder engagement plans for all target accounts.

Represent Jazz and its products at industry events and conferences to engage PBM and Health Plan industry stakeholders.

Create opportunities for live engagement with Emisar, Optum Rx and United Healthcare to deliver payer value propositions and business updates.

Execute market access strategies to ensure appropriate access to Jazz’s portfolio of products within target accounts.

Collaborate with Regional Account Directors (RADs) and field sales colleagues to leverage access opportunities and overcome access obstacles for Jazz products.

Strategically cultivate and leverage a broad network of relationships with key managed markets individuals within target accounts (e.g., pharmacy, medical, clinical contacts, contracting directors/chiefs), and industry organizations.

Coordinate all Jazz activities and resources with accounts and serve as the single point of contact.

Collaborate strategically across multiple internal stakeholders (Sales, Marketing, Legal, Access Services, and PVO/HEOR) to address access challenges, execute market access strategies, and ensure clinically appropriate patients have access to our medicines.

Conduct quarterly business reviews of the market access landscape and opportunities with appropriate sales colleagues in each business unit.

Collaborate with internal and external partners to ensure all applicable Jazz reimbursement support services are optimized the accounts as appropriate.

Ensure all relevant internal stakeholders, reporting tools, and reimbursement support programs are kept up to date with Jazz product access and reimbursement information for targeted accounts.

Identify opportunities to demonstrate or provide value to all stakeholders and work with internal and external partners to develop and execute these opportunities.

Anticipate potential obstacles and bring together all appropriate stakeholders to proactively develop mitigation plans.

Leverage all applicable marketing tools and resources to educate external stakeholders on Jazz products, associated diseases, and the value these products provide.

Create and maintain detailed strategic account plans for Emisar, Optum Rx and UHC accounts and present these plans during regular business reviews with senior management.

Mobilize resources and senior management support to capitalize on new opportunities and/or address unforeseen threats.

Be the subject matter expertise for all aspects of your targeted accounts to inform Market Access, brand strategy development and decision making.

Strategically negotiate discount agreements in alignment with Jazz’s contracting guidelines and in compliance with applicable policies, laws, and regulations.

Desired Skills and Experience

At least 10 years of pharma/biopharmaceutical experience and 4 years of proven success as an Account Manager calling on National commercial and/or government and/or Medicaid payers.

At least two years of experience in a direct management or team leadership role, either field or headquarters based.

Demonstrated ability to develop a network of relationships with key individuals within targeted accounts.

Demonstrated ability to effectively lead cross-organizational projects and teams with and without direct management authority.

Demonstrate an understanding of healthcare, payers, formulary/PDL development, coverage and reimbursement issues, and compliance laws and regulations.

Demonstrate a high level of proficiency across all Jazz core competencies of Business Acumen, Communication Skills, Critical Thinking / Decision-Making, Drive for Results, Influence and Impact, Interpersonal Skills / Self-Awareness, Planning and Organization and Self-Management / Development.

Demonstrate Jazz core values of integrity, passion, collaboration, innovation and pursuit of excellence.

Operate in a compliant manner that algins with company policies in all activities and communications

#LI-Remote

Jazz Pharmaceuticals is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any characteristic protected by law.

FOR US BASED CANDIDATES ONLY

Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices and we strive to provide employees with total compensation packages that are market competitive.  For this role, the full and complete base pay range is:

$224,000.00 - $336,000.00

Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, and other pertinent factors. The goal is to ensure fair and competitive compensation aligned with the candidate's expertise and contributions, within the established pay framework and our Total Compensation philosophy. Internal equity considerations will also influence individual base pay decisions. This range will be reviewed on a regular basis.

At Jazz, your base pay is only one part of your total compensation package. The successful candidate may also be eligible for a discretionary annual cash bonus or incentive compensation (depending on the role), in accordance with the terms of the Company's Global Cash Bonus Plan or Incentive Compensation Plan, as well as discretionary equity grants in accordance with Jazz’s Long Term Equity Incentive Plan.

The successful candidate will also be eligible to participate in various benefits offerings, including, but not limited to, medical, dental and vision insurance, 401k retirement savings plan, and flexible paid vacation.  For more information on our Benefits offerings please click here: https://careers.jazzpharma.com/benefits.html

Job details

Seniority
Director
Function
Market Access
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Philadelphia, United States
Employment type
Full time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Market Access role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 50 comparable Director Market Access roles across 18 biopharma companies.

50Comparable roles tracked
45Currently active
18Companies hiring similar roles
6Countries represented

Salary context

23 of 50 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject $224,000/yr – $336,000/yr
Peer group range $178,750 – $290,000 (median $244,150)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 50 comparable roles

United States43
Spain2
Japan2
Canada1
Germany1
Switzerland1

Seniority mix

50 of 50 peers have a known seniority level

Director43
Senior Director7

Therapeutic area mix

19 of 50 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Neuroscience7
Oncology5
Immunology3
Rare Disease2
Vaccines & Infectious Disease1
Dermatology & Aesthetics1

Similar opportunities

The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.

60%similar
Novartis Field Non-Sales (USA), United States Director
Same function Same seniority Same country
60%similar
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc (USA) Remote, United States Director
Same function Same seniority Same country
60%similar
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc (USA) Remote, United States Director
Same function Same seniority Same country
60%similar
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc (USA) Remote, United States Director
Same function Same seniority Same country
60%similar
Pfizer New York City, United States Director
Same function Same seniority Same country
60%similar
E.R. Squibb & Sons,L.L.C. Field, United States Director
Same function Same seniority Same country

Notify me about similar jobs

Get an email when we spot other openings like this one – same job function, comparable seniority, roles you'd actually want to see.

How we calculate "similar"

No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.

Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.

60%
Regional Director, Access & Reimbursement (West)
Novartis · Field Non-Sales (USA), United States · Director
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
60%
Neurology Account Director - South Central
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc (USA) · Remote, United States · Director
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
60%
Director of Innovation, Innovative Models & External Partnerships, Global Market Access
E.R. Squibb & Sons,L.L.C. · Princeton, United States · Director
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
60%
Access Optimization Director, Pipeline
GlaxoSmithKline LLC · Durham Blackwell Street, United States · Director
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
Unmatched or unknown dimensions score exactly the same: 0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.