MSD Market Access Manager 

Finland, Espoo 

302759047

Job Description

The Market Access Manager will be responsible for strategy development, health economic analyses and preparation of reimbursement dossiers to achieve the general use and public fundingfor pharmaceutical portfolio in Finland.

The Market Access Manager will report to the External Affairs Lead.

Primary activities and Key Responsibilities

• Mapping of external payer landscape
• Support development of business case and price/tender request for price action together with Tender Manager
• Works closely with Access, Commercial, Medical, Policy and Finance to develop a clear stakeholder strategy and engagement plan focused on prioritized products
• Represents company with key external partners and develops an externalization plan with external partners to include a compliant and sustainable access management.
• Collaboration with Value Lead and Tender manager to identify key customer problems and needs and develop tailored value-based solutions to help shape access and pricing specifications and content for all priority/must-win submissions.
• Partners with and/or directly engages with external customers in the pre-submission phase to understand customer needs, deliver value-based proposition to help shape access specifications
• Responsible for aligning with finance and BU teams on forecast assumptions and budgeting
• Bi-weekly meeting with External Affairs Lead on pricing and access maters
• Monthly meetings with BU teams to ensure strong alignment
• Monthly meeting with Finance, commercial leads and supply chain on pricing and access actions
• Work cross-organizationally internally
• Have customer contact, not least with clinical people, trendsetters and "Key opinion leaders" in relevant therapy areas.

Must Have Competencies:

Collaboration and Customer Focus

• Actively collaborates across functional boundaries to increase organization performance, productivity and problem solving
• Ability to elicit and understand customer needs in order to develop tailored customer-centric solutions
• Embeds structures and practices that facilitate effective collaboration across the organization
• Identifies key internal stakeholders and effectively builds long term relationships to deliver results and clearly define accountability

Turn Strategy into Action

• Translates strategies into implementation plans with clear milestones and timelines
• Effectively communicates strategic priorities and coordinates with others through implementation
• Monitors implementation, identifying corrective action necessary to ensure strategies and execution plans are successful
• Demonstrates urgency to deliver key business objectives

Negotiation and Influencing

• Translates strategies into implementation plans with clear milestones and timelines
• Effectively communicates strategic priorities and coordinates with others through implementation
• Monitors implementation, identifying corrective action necessary to ensure strategies and execution plans are successful
• Demonstrates urgency to deliver key business objectives

Facilitative Leadership

• Operates effectively to help create high performing cohesive teams
• Motivates and inspires others to keep project moving toward completion
• Addresses conflict early, resolving issues before they affect performance goals and outcomes

Planning & Organizing

• Sets objectives and goals, breaking down work into process steps
• Anticipates and adjusts for problems and roadblocks
• Measures performance against goals & evaluates results
• Can marshal resources (people, funding, material, support) to get things done
• Can orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish goals
• Uses resources effectively and efficiently

Business Acumen

• Knows how to apply commercial management principles to achieve business outcomes
• Effectively uses financial analysis tools to monitor performance and return on investment

Tenacity/Resilience

• Demonstrates a high level of persistence to overcome obstacles, remains strongly motivated to achieve business objectives
• Demonstrates learning from challenges, applying learning to other situations

Enterprise leadership skills:

• Business Savviness
• Strategic Planning
• Networking and Partnerships
• Influence
• Execution Excellence
• Ownership and Accountability

Functional skills:

• Market access
• Pricing

Education, Background & Experience:

• Minimum 2-3 years’ experience working at market access.
• Experience of access strategies and pricing management
• Demonstrated competency in analytics and interest in building financial / commercial acumen.
• Good negotiation skills and demonstrated ability to foster teamwork and coordinate and communicate effectively with multiple stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experienced or burning interest in external alliance management.
• Strong influencing skills
• Fluency in written and oral English / Finnish; excellent communication skills
• Proven ability to deliver under pressure, working on own and as part of a team to ensure quality standards and attention to detail.

Current Contingent Workers apply

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