[Hiring] Regional Medical Director, Value and Access @Stoke Therapeutics

Role Description

The Regional Medical Director, Value and Access is a senior, field-based Medical Affairs leader who develops and executes the regional medical value strategy and serves as a scientific and strategic partner to:

• Payers
• Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)
• Integrated delivery networks (IDNs)
• Accountable care organizations (ACOs)
• Medicaid stakeholders
• Health technology assessment (HTA) bodies
• Other population-health decision-makers

The role leads unbiased scientific exchange, translates clinical, health-economic, and real-world evidence into decision-relevant value narratives, and shapes regional priorities that support formulary evaluation, coverage, reimbursement readiness, and patient access.

Operating with substantial autonomy, the Regional Medical Value Director partners closely with:

• Field Medical
• Market Access
• HEOR/RWE
• Clinical Development
• Regulatory
• Policy

The role is especially critical in pre-launch, launch, and lifecycle management, where it builds scientific credibility with priority payers and anticipates their evidence needs.

Qualifications

• Advanced clinical or scientific degree in a relevant discipline.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in Medical Affairs, payer medical engagement, Market Access, HEOR/RWE, clinical development, managed care, or a related pharma/biotech function.
• Formal training or demonstrated expertise in health economics, outcomes research, population health, managed care, epidemiology, or health policy strongly preferred.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in managed care, formulary and coverage decision-making, evidence-based medicine, clinical trial methodology, HEOR, outcomes research, epidemiology, and real-world evidence.
• Strategic ability to connect external stakeholder needs with portfolio, evidence-generation, access, and medical priorities.
• Executive-level scientific communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• Ability to critically appraise complex clinical and economic data, identify limitations, and articulate implications for population-health decisions.
• Strong business and financial acumen, including prioritization, resource allocation, project planning, and measurement of impact.
• Proven influence in matrixed organizations and ability to lead across functions, geographies, and levels without direct authority.
• Sound judgment in ambiguous, high-visibility, and compliance-sensitive situations.
• Strong coaching, mentoring, change leadership, and capability-building skills.
• Ability to use digital engagement, insight analytics, and customer relationship tools effectively.

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive, and thoughtfully designed total rewards program.
• Anticipated salary range: $240,000 - $280,000.
• Annual bonus and equity participation.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life, long- and short-term disability insurance.
• Paid parental leave.
• 401K plan with company match.
• Unlimited vacation time.
• Tuition assistance.
• Participation in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).

Company Description

Stoke Therapeutics is a biotechnology company dedicated to restoring protein expression by harnessing the body’s potential with RNA medicine. Stoke is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts.

For more information, visit Stoke Therapeutics .