Market Access Manager

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

We are seeking a highly motivated and visionary leader interested in shaping the management of people at risk of developing/or with T1 diabetes or those recently diagnosed.

As Market Access Manger Autoimmune T1D, you will be primarily responsible to define and implement the local pricing and access strategy for a first-in-class therapy in Autoimmune Type 1 Diabetes.

You will work cross-functionally with external and internal stakeholders (at Global and local levels) to optimize patients’ access and enable them to benefit from Autoimmune T1 therapy.

Your core responsibilities will include:

Mapping and understanding the key stakeholders of the healthcare system
Establishing relationships and acting as liaison with the key stakeholders that can impact Market Access
Identifying local access barriers and developing plan to overcome them
Developing the local market access and pricing strategy to secure and maintain access, adapting to the country requirements to maximize market access and commercial uptake
Ensure market access strategy considers and supports broader policy shaping activities incl. raising the unmet need in T1D, to achieve guidelines update (e.g., inclusion of screening in national guidelines and screening reimbursement based on HEOR models and evidence)
Timely execution of market access and pricing strategy
Coordinating and / or writing local pricing and reimbursement dossier for submission (e.g., initial request, modification, or appeals, etc.), monitoring their submission
Adapting the Global value story and the communication plan to ensure that the drug’s value proposition will be recognized among the external stakeholder community and hence market access will be optimized
Managing a network of advisors to assist in the local MAx adaptations and ensuring that deliverables are ready in a high quality and timely manner and that patients, health care professionals, payers and other relevant stakeholder perspectives are included in access projects, in particular via early scientific advice, pre-submission consultations, AdBoards, etc.
Overseeing the adaptation of all necessary scientific evidence to support value proposition
Working together with cross-functional team to identify and close evidence gaps regarding the data needed to meet country requirements, maximize market access and commercial uptake
Where relevant, supporting the development of economic evidence such as cost-effectiveness and budget impact models
Assessing opportunities for innovative contracting options
Monitoring market evolutions in the Pricing and Reimbursement and Health Economics environment (legislation, regulation, or processes) and the therapeutic area, including competitive evolutions and assessing potential implications (e.g., pricing, reimbursement)
Supporting publication strategy and collaborating with HEVA on publications
Ensuring compliance with government regulations and company processes

About you

Experience:
- 5 years of experience in Market Access and Pricing within the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry

Soft skills:
- Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally and build strong relationships at various levels within the organization
- Strategic mindset and proven innovation/out of the box thinking in access strategies, evidence generation and value documentation
- Strong communication skills, ability to understand and communicate complex information in clear, understandable ways for internal and external audiences
- Ability to influence stakeholders effectively
- Excellent negotiating skills
- Team spirit, sense of transversality, working with autonomy and strong customer focus

Technical skills:
- Proven experience in supporting access negotiations, including pricing and reimbursement
- Strong knowledge about National Health System and relevant regulation
- Understanding of payer value drivers and ability to anticipate payor objections and create multiple possible solutions
- Understanding on how evidence impacts various perspectives (e.g., payers, providers, patients, health systems)
- Ability to integrate access strategy into the bigger picture of the healthcare system organization, from screening, testing, monitoring to drug delivery
- Experience with Pharmacoeconomics/Health Outcomes Research is beneficial
- Demonstrated ability to leverage research, scenario analyses and payers’ insights to generate global integrated market access and pricing strategies and plans to maximize product differentiation most relevant to payers
- Excellence in building sustainable innovative contracting solutions and ability to execute
- Understanding of Health-economics
- Advanced scientific expertise including data generation
- Knowledge in T1D therapeutic area is beneficial

Education: Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, pharmacy or a related field. Desired diploma in healthcare management, public health policy or market access.