Market Access Manager Africa Biofire at Biomerieux

The Africa Region is looking for a Market Access Manager biofire Africa. He/She will manage the market access activities for the company’s IVD products (Molecular Diagnostics), with a specific focus on pricing and reimbursement, together with a key role in the decision support activity – delivering analyses for transversal strategic initiatives of the company, within the company’s Global Marketing. The successful candidate will report directly to the Africa Marketing Director.

What will be your responsibilities?

Market access’ side:

• Centralize the market access expertise at a global level regarding IVD products (Molecular Diagnostics) with a specific focus on pricing and reimbursement, linked with health technology assessment  (HTA) activities
• Provide upper management with recommendations regarding the optimal pricing strategies for existing products and services and also reimbursement strategies for the company’s innovative products
• Benchmark on competitive approaches of market access for innovative IVD products
• Build and manage a network of market access experts to keep up-to-date regarding market access evolutions (regulatory changes, new policies, stakeholders mapping…)
• Build and manage a network of external agencies able to perform market access studies on a global scale

Decision support’s side:

• Lead high level analyses related to the company’s transversal strategic initiatives, so as to support the decision-making process 
• Present these analyses in the most impacting format: straight-to-the-point oral presentations, visual PowerPoint presentations, or other relevant formats

Who are you?

• Master degree in a science/business-related field, with 5 years minimum experience in strategic marketing and market access in the healthcare industry (preferentially within Molecular Diagnostics). A knowledge of the IVD/Clinical market, customers and the company’s business
• Successful track record of interacting closely with Global and Regional functions (Medical Affairs, Regulatory, Marketing, Business Development, R&D and Projects…)
• International experience is a must
• Fluency in English is required

Skills and Qualifications:

• Strong leadership skills to convince, persuade, obtain an audience adhesion ; Team spirit; Analytical and synthetic mindset / Sense of time and priorities management
• Good communication and presentation skills and ability to deliver complex information into a simplified manner for different audiences 
• Ability to deep-dive into technical topics and to deliver high-level and easy to understand analyses 
• Knowledge of methodological tools for strategic analyses linked to a true business oriented mindset