Senior Market Access Manager - Stakeholder Relations at AstraZeneca

What you’ll do?

The successful applicant will join a fast-paced and dynamic team to negotiate and connect internal and external stakeholders every day to realize our innovative pipeline. Your role will play a crucial part in facilitating access and affordability to our life-changing new medicines, for those who need them the most.

With your market access experiences your key focus areas will include the following:

Delivery on Market Access

• Implement market access and pricing strategies and develop operational plans in collaboration with business unit managers and other service functions.
• Support funder negotiation strategies and payer mapping.
• Effective delivery of commercial input to market access process and team.
• Interpretation and the tailoring of available evidence to support market access for AZ brands in collaboration with the Medical division.
• Identify evidence gaps that may inhibit market access and develop plans to fill the gaps.
• Value creation through clinical and health economic outcomes research data.
• Value communication through the value proposition and value dossier to funders and/or decision makers to increase access and/or reimbursement.
• Ability to establish measurement system to track progress and drive effective corrective action when needed.

Commercial Input to New Product Planning

• Conducts market/ customer segmentation and identifies the emotional and rational drivers for each customer segment in order to develop value added and compelling solutions or offerings
• Plan integrated cross functional timelines, balancing needs of quality and expediency across the business and build deliverability into launch plans

Cross Functional Project Management

• Manages cross functional teams optimally in order to achieve the brand objectives.
• Identifies and manages key interfaces with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the delivery according to agreed time lines.
• Effectively facilitates key meetings and issues.

Influencing Stakeholders

• Identifies key stakeholders both internal and external, and builds relationships with them.
• Effectively interprets all existing and new market research to gain good understanding of stakeholders needs.

Maintained Administrative Systems

• Report as required on strategy implementation and budget spend.
• Adhere to company policies and procedure.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED?

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum 5 years Market Access experience.
• Understanding of the South African Healthcare Market.
• Teamwork and leadership skills, including the ability to consult extensively with cross functional teams and act within a matrix organization.
• Strong pricing background for funder reimbursement purposes.

Desirable for the role

• MBA.
• Multi industry marketing practice.
• Experience with both HCP and Consumer Marketing.