Summary
The role embeds system, policy, and payer insights into brand and portfolio strategies to support sustainable access outcomes. It works across functions to ensure V&A strategies are fully integrated into brand plans and local account implementation. The role ensures high‑quality, timely delivery of V&A solutions that maximize payer engagement and impact across the product lifecycle.
About the Role
Major Accountabilities
Access Strategy, Positioning, and Portfolio Impact
- Define national access, pricing, and reimbursement strategies per product and portfolio
- Identify, evaluate, and prioritize V&A strategic choices that drive commercial growth
- Translate global access guidance into locally relevant strategies
- Ensure V&A strategies are embedded within integrated brand and portfolio plans
- Align access strategies with product lifecycle stages, including launch and line extensions
- Adapt strategies based on healthcare system, policy, and payer dynamics
Insights and Customer Understanding
- Deliver healthcare system and payer insights relevant to the portfolio to inform decisions
- Generate in‑depth customer and system insights to shape V&A and Therapeutic Area (TA) strategies
- Embed customer, policy, and system insights consistently across the organization
- Translate insights into actionable V&A strategies and engagement models
- Monitor external environment changes and integrate learnings into strategy updates
Support Cross‑Functional Collaboration and coordination
- Collaborate closely with cross‑functional teams including Medical Affairs, Commercial TAs, and Finance, Strategic Account teams and Customer Experience roles
- Influence without formal authority to align stakeholders on V&A priorities
- Foster effective ways of working within matrix and portfolio environments
External Stakeholder Engagement and Negotiation
- Build and maintain strong relationships with external decision makers
- Represent the organization in access‑related discussions and forums
- Integrate external stakeholder feedback into strategy refinement
- Adjust negotiation approaches based on market and policy context
Portfolio Maintenance & Lifecycle Management
- Support maintenance and evolution of the value proposition for in‑market brands
- Oversee and support lifecycle access activities (submission renewals, HTA updates, line extensions)
- Support contract renewals, pricing reviews, and access renegotiations
Business Insight and Performance Management
- Provide V&A input into business cases and portfolio decisions
- Monitor access performance using defined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Track reimbursement, pricing, and listing milestones
- Share best practices and lessons learned across brands and teams
- Support continuous performance review and optimization
Ideal Background
Education:
- University degree in life sciences, economics, or related field
- Advanced degree is an advantage but not mandatory
Languages:
- English & French
- Arabic is required
Experience/Professional Requirement:
- 5–8 years in market access, pricing, or reimbursement roles
- Experience within pharmaceutical or healthcare environment
- Proven exposure to national access or payer negotiations
- Experience across product launch and lifecycle phases
Functional capabilities
- Strong understanding of pricing and reimbursement systems
- Ability to translate evidence into access value propositions
- Experience working with HEOR (Health Economics and Outcomes Research)
- Solid project and stakeholder management skills
Leadership capabilities and mindset
- Strategic and analytical thinking
- Ability to lead without direct authority
- Comfort managing complexity and ambiguity
- Influencing skills across internal and external stakeholders
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