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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # VP, Affordability Solutions - **Company:** Mercalis Inc. - **Location:** Morrisville, NC, United States - **Salary:** $50,000.0 - $300,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Computing Platforms, Software as a Service, Dataspaces, Data Systems, Interoperability, Scrum Methodology, Systems Integration, Cloud Platform System, Kubernetes, Data Analytics, Operational Systems - **Published:** June 13, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=f4c6f260254b8e00 ## About the Role Do you have experience in Senior leadership?, * 12+ years of leadership experience across product management, operational intelligence, healthcare data platforms, analytics, workflow systems, or life sciences technology. * Experience building or scaling operational intelligence platforms, workflow analytics systems, predictive models, or data-driven product ecosystems. * Strong understanding of healthcare, life sciences, patient access, reimbursement, specialty pharmacy, commercialization operations, or operational workflow platforms. * Demonstrated success translating complex operational workflows and fragmented data into scalable product capabilities. * Experience developing investment business cases, operational ROI models, and platform prioritization strategies. * Strong operational systems thinking and platform architecture expertise. * Demonstrated success leading cross-functional product and operational transformation initiatives. Preferred Experience: * Experience in HUB services, specialty pharmacy, reimbursement services, patient support programs, or commercialization infrastructure. * Familiarity with operational event models, interoperability ecosystems, APIs, MDM, workflow telemetry, and healthcare data governance. * Experience with coverage intelligence platforms, payer data products, or formulary data ecosystems. * Experience partnering with AI, automation, or orchestration platform organizations. * Experience evaluating external data partnerships, interoperability vendors, or ecosystem integrations such as Evernorth or MMIT. * Experience in SaaS, platform modernization, or services-to-product transformation environments. ## Description Valeris is a fully integrated life sciences commercialization partner that provides comprehensive solutions that span the entire healthcare value chain. Formed by the merger of PharmaCord and Mercalis, Valeris revolutionizes the path from life sciences innovation to real-life impact to build a world in which every patient gets the care they need. Valeris works on behalf of life sciences companies to improve the patient experience so that patients can access and adhere to critical medications. Backed by proven industry expertise, a deep commitment to patient care, the latest technology, and exceptionally talented team members, Valeris provides the data and strategic insights, patient support services and healthcare provider engagement tools to help life sciences companies successfully commercialize new products. Valeris provides commercialization solutions to more than 500 life sciences customers and has provided access and affordability support to millions of patients. The company is headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina and Jeffersonville, Indiana. To learn more about Valeris, please visit www.valeris.com. Valeris is seeking a VP, Affordability Solutions to lead the strategy, modernization, and growth of our affordability platform and financial access ecosystem. This leader will own the affordability product portfolio across copay, PAP, reimbursement coordination, financial assistance workflows, and affordability optimization capabilities. The role is responsible for transforming legacy affordability operations into scalable, configurable, platform-driven solutions that improve patient access outcomes, operational efficiency, and reimbursement performance. This is a strategic product and platform leadership role within Valeris' Innovation team. You will work alongside engineering, operations, and product leaders to design and deliver the next generation of affordability capabilities; built for speed, scale, and measurable patient impact. The ideal candidate understands both the operational complexity and financial dynamics of specialty patient affordability and can translate those workflows into scalable product capabilities while balancing client configurability, operational efficiency, and platform standardization. Responsibilities: Product & Platform Strategy * Define and execute the product strategy and roadmap for Valeris' affordability solutions portfolio. * Lead the modernization of affordability workflows into reusable, scalable platform capabilities. * Partner with the Head of Innovation and executive leadership to align affordability platform investments with company strategy and operational transformation initiatives. * Help drive the company's transition from fragmented affordability operations to configurable, platform-enabled solutions. Affordability Workflow Ownership * Own affordability product capabilities including copay programs, PAP workflows, financial assistance coordination, benefit affordability workflows, offer optimization, accumulator and maximizer mitigation, payment workflows and reconciliation, and affordability operations modernization. * Improve workflow efficiency, reimbursement outcomes, and financial access coordination across specialty therapy programs. Operational Orchestration & Platform Enablement * Build scalable operational workflows that support human and AI-augmented affordability operations. * Develop configurable capabilities that scale across manufacturers, therapy areas, and program types. * Partner with Engineering and Operations to improve workflow automation, interoperability, and operational scalability. * Support integrated patient access and affordability orchestration across the broader Valeris platform ecosystem. Innovation Team Contribution * Serve as the product voice for affordability within the Innovation team, translating operational pain points into clearly defined product requirements. * Partner with engineering and Operations SMEs to validate solutions, define business rules, and drive adoption of new capabilities. * Contribute to innovation operating rhythms including sprint planning, demos, retrospectives, and roadmap reviews. * Own initiative intake, evaluation, and business case development for affordability product investments. * Present roadmap recommendations and investment proposals to the Head of Innovation for prioritization and go/no-go decisions. Team Leadership * Build and lead high-performing product teams focused on affordability modernization and operational scalability. * Establish governance models that support platform consistency, operational quality, and configurable workflows. * Foster a culture of accountability, operational excellence, and market-driven product development. ## Related Videos - [From Messy Queries to Scalable Systems - How Data Engineering actually works](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100203-from-messy-queries-to-scalable-systems-how-data-engineering-actually-works) - [Understanding Kubernetes in a visual way](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100085-understanding-kubernetes-in-a-visual-way) - [Harnessing the Power of Open Source's Newest Technologies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1448-harnessing-the-power-of-open-source-s-newest-technologies) - [Blueprints for Success: Steering a Global Data & AI Architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1577-blueprints-for-success-steering-a-global-data-ai-architecture) - [The Data Mesh as the end of the Datalake as we know it](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/156-the-data-mesh-as-the-end-of-the-datalake-as-we-know-it) - [Instant KAI Sandboxes with vCluster: Multi-Tenant, Multi-Scheduler GPU Sharing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100333-instant-kai-sandboxes-with-vcluster-multi-tenant-multi-scheduler-gpu-sharing) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [The Biggest German Tech Companies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/424-the-biggest-german-tech-companies) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Everything a Developer Needs to Know About MCP with Neo4j](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/604-everything-a-developer-needs-to-know-about-mcp-with-neo4j) - [MLOps – What’s the deal behind it?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/125-mlops-what-s-the-deal-behind-it) - [Coffee with Developers - Maria Apazoglou - Making AI understandable for all in production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/475-coffee-with-developers-maria-apazoglou-making-ai-understandable-for-all-in-production)