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Market Access Manager

Sofia, Bulgaria.

Are you passionate about ensuring patients have access to life-changing treatments?

As a Market Access Manager at AstraZeneca, you will play a pivotal role in shaping pricing strategies and navigating the complex landscape of healthcare access. Join us in our mission to deliver sustainable healthcare solutions and make a real impact on patients’ lives.

Accountabilities:

  • Drive product pricing analysis and recommendations by analyzing competitive products and pricing, ensuring alignment with brand value proposition, understanding customer groups (patients and physicians)
  • Input to Brand Teams for life cycle management planning and to the local KEEs collaboration plan.
  • Monitor environment and practices for shifts in trends or behaviors, interpret likely impact, and suggest appropriate actions.
  • Develop a deep understanding of competitive market conditions that affect pricing for individual brands and the overall industry.
  • Evaluate changing marketplace dynamics and proactively recommend pricing strategies related to managed care, reimbursement environment, federal and state regulations.
  • Obtain relevant competitive information on managed care pricing and contracts.
  • Provide modeling of pricing recommendations and financial impacts for new and existing products.
  • Serve as a resource for Licensing and Business Development in assessing price for potential opportunities.
  • Effectively formulate and utilize market research data.
  • Create strategic business plans for existing products and the product pipeline.
  • Participate in umbrella organization strategy, preparing and supporting negotiations with the umbrella organization and management team.
  • Adapt global value dossiers for local reimbursement and offer documents for social insurance and hospitality providers; develop the value story (including Health Economics & Outcome Studies).
  • Work with the global teams to ensure that reimbursement strategies, policy planning, and execution  support short-term growth & long-term brand success in the country without detriment to Global markets.
  • Work closely with internal stakeholders such as local brand teams and global market access teams, as well as external stakeholders such as Key Opinion Leaders for Market Access to gather views and derive resulting actions.
  • Provide training and development insights for account teams.
  • Engage with policymakers to agree on national contracts.
  • Provide guidance for account managers regarding contract analysis & negotiation with payers & specialty pharmacies.

Essential Skills/Experience:

  • Medical, Pharmacy, Science, Economics, or Health Economics background
  • Experience as a Market Access Manager or similar background is necessary
  • Skillful in collaboration with key customers, KEE, team players
  • In-depth understanding of local healthcare system pricing and reimbursement
  • Proven ability to understand, assimilate and communicate scientific information and Health Economic Outcomes data
  • Basic Pharmaceutical Marketing and/or Medical experience
  • Proven track record in influencing the stakeholder decision-making process
  • Keen analytical skills and strategic thinking
  • Ability to cover different therapeutic areas and a policy shaping expertise
  • Knowledge of the pharmaceutical market and healthcare system
  • Ability to identify correlations between clinical trials, pharma-economic, and benefits for payers and patients
  • Strong professional interactions with internal and external customers and leadership skills
  • Analytical thinking

Desirable Skills/Experience:

  • In-depth understanding of the patient’s journey
  • Knowledge of the TAs in AstraZeneca’s portfolio
  • Demonstrable expertise in financial modeling and/or analytics preferred
  • Strong focus on effective decision-making and results
  • Clear evidence of innovation leading to success
  • Good knowledge of the national political and economic situation

At AstraZeneca, we are dedicated to making our pipeline accessible to patients. Our research-driven approach means there’s always something new to work on. We combine our knowledge of patients with innovative thinking to spot opportunities early and approach access sustainably. Our strong negotiation skills and storytelling abilities help us connect across the enterprise and beyond. We thrive on autonomy and collaboration, always ready to challenge the status quo and explore new solutions. Join us in our mission to provide sustainable access to healthcare solutions for all.

Ready to make a difference? Apply now to join our team!

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.

This job ad will be unpublished on 28/12/2024.

This job is posted by AstraZeneca.

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