Her Story
About Victoria
Victoria Guze serves as Associate Account Director in pharmaceutical marketing and market access, where she guides resources from concept through completion to help healthcare payers recognize the clinical value of medications. This work aims to remove barriers such as prior authorizations and step therapy, enabling patients to access potentially life-saving drugs more easily. Based in Fredon, New Jersey, she graduated in 2014 with a degree in broadcasting and journalism after completing her studies in three and a half years and has built a career spanning initial roles in pharma, time in publishing, and a return to pharma for a total of about seven years in the combined fields. Among her notable achievements are contributions to the 2023 launch of the first FDA-approved treatment for metabolic-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) and the recent launch of an ADHD product. She maintains ties to Phi Sigma Sigma from her college years, participating in volunteer efforts focused on educational readiness for lower-income schools, and supports cancer care walks, influenced by her mother's work in the field. Guze attributes her success to her upbringing and her parents' examples of hard work, dedication, perseverance, and confidence. She values partnership and cross-functional collaboration in both professional and personal spheres and advises others, especially young women, to ask questions without fear, embrace failure as a path to growth, and overcome imposter syndrome by recognizing their rightful place in the industry.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Victoria
01What do you attribute your success to?
I think it had to be honestly my upbringing. My parents were really really hardworking. They showed me what dedication and hard work looks like and perseverance looks like and having the confidence to you know move forward in your career as well. So I think yeah you really have to attribute it to my parents.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
Do not be afraid to ask questions and also to fail. That's the only way that you're going to grow and to learn. For a while I didn't want to be the person that was asking questions. You want to look like you know everything that you're talking about but nobody truly does. So the only way that I was able to really grow in this space was asking those questions.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Not being afraid to ask questions and also trying not to have that imposter syndrome. You're here for a reason you made it this far because of who you are and your work ethic. So just having the confidence to feel like you belong in the space.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
One of the biggest challenges in our industry is trying to just navigate the space. It's constantly changing whether it has to do with changes in administration changes on more of a local level there's a lot of changing and you have to constantly kind of be on top of that so doing your own research to make sure that you're staying in the know and staying relevant with things. But that presents an opportunity as well because then you can kind of find unique ways to make these changes.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
I really value partnership and I do think that goes outside of work as well whether that's with your family or your friends or your community and then in work as well. You need to be able to work cross-functionally with your own team internally with your clients. Nobody's gonna get it done themselves. You need to have the right people around you and you need to be able to utilize and work together with those people around you.
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