Market Access Lead (NEW)

Are you highly motivated by being able to make a difference in improving patients’ lives? Are you a high-performing executive energized by challenges and able to influence people around you? If so, you might be the Market Access Lead we are looking for. Apply today, and join us for a life-changing career!

About the Department
Novo Nordisk’s Market Access team engages diverse stakeholders across political and healthcare landscapes to forge solutions that drive patient access to innovative products. We strive to deliver the best possible outcomes for patients with diabetes, obesity, growth hormone deficiencies and rare bleeding disorders through mutual wins for Novo Nordisk and our Market Access customers.

The Position

As a Market Access Lead, you will establish Market Access (MA), Value Communications and Health Economics (HE) strategies in line with local and global business priorities. Provide leadership in developing and implementing the strategic affiliate market access plans, creating supportive HE value documentation and aiding tools for use in their Pricing and Reimbursement (P&R) and Formulary works (national payer levels). This position has been newly open as am additional headcount through the APAC headcount approval. This position reports to the Senior Market Access Manager and this is a single contributor role.

Key tasks include, but are not limited to:

• Develop and advocate Market Access strategic plans for the function that aligns functional objectives with regional strategy and aspiration. Constantly communicate the shared vision and business priorities for the Market Access functional area and align with the cross-functional teams. Be an ambassador for Business Ethics and ensure full compliance with all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Monitor intelligence on the MA landscape from competition access, healthcare system changes, Health Technology Assessment (HTA) developments and general trends in the field. Execute MA plans based on local needs and strategy aligned with affiliate and global aspirations. Implement and execute strategic MA frameworks such as payer engagement, negotiation, and objection handling in close collaboration with Affiliate Management Team and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Communicate local HE evidences and Value Communication to create tailored local value messages that resonate with local patients, payers, health care providers and other decision-makers. Develop local HE Communication Tools to ensure Novo Nordisk drug’s value proposition will be recognized and local market uptake will be maximized. Identify and communicate to International Operations (IO) the HE evidence and publication needs that will leverage local business opportunities and drive stakeholder engagement strategies needs for MA. Develop a local submission value dossier, ensuring a coherent storyline that will resonate with local payers in collaboration with IO/Regional/ local Management Team.
• Submit complete pricing cases in line with IO pricing strategies and SOP pricing promptly. Reflect a clear understanding of the business impact and general MA implications by collaborating closely with CMR (Clinical, Medical, Regulatory), Marketing and Sales to create solid business/pricing cases. Monitor local pricing developments, ensure pricing SOP compliance and communicate pricing insights and analyses, ensuring broader business implications are reflected. Participate and represent NN in local pricing platforms with plans/tactics in collaboration with the field-based market access team and align negotiation tactics with internal pricing policies.

Qualifications

• Completed bachelor’s or master's degree, preferably in the pharmaceutical industry-academic area.
• Advanced knowledge of pharmaceutical market access environmental factors to foster pricing & reimbursement strategies, public and government affairs.
• At least 10 years of experience in a Market Access, Government Relations and/or Health Technology.
• Track record of successful change management and delivering market access.
• Proficiency in both oral and written English is essential.