Head Legal Value & Access

Key Responsibilities

• Lead legal strategy and provide senior counsel on value and access matters, including pricing, reimbursement, HTA, payer engagement, tendering/procurement, and innovative access models.
• Establish legal guardrails for value narratives, payer materials, and access initiatives in coordination with Medical/Regulatory/Compliance. Advice on launch sequencing, access archetypes, and contracting approaches; recommend risk mitigation plans.
• Support HTA and coverage frameworks, including evidence requirements, value dossiers, payer negotiations, and interactions with national decision makers.
• Advice on regulatory data protection and exclusivity and related lifecycle and biosimilar/generic entry considerations, in coordination with regulatory and IP teams.
• Support the interpretation and operationalization of the new EU pharmaceutical package and other pharmaceutical reforms across International, advising on incentives, launch/supply obligations, access expectations, exclusivity periods, and portfolio implications.
• Provide guidance on most favored nation type pricing issues, cross market pricing implications, rebate/discount structures, and associated competition law and enforcement risk.
• Oversee pricing and reimbursement support, including external reference pricing, confidential rebates/discounts, clawback/payback mechanisms, managed entry agreements, and national reimbursement conditions.
• Advise and provide guidance on the drafting, review, and negotiation of payer and stakeholder agreements (including value based arrangements), and on public procurement/tender strategy and related compliance requirements.
• Ensure compliant payer facing activities; design and deliver training for affiliates and regions on access law fundamentals (competition, payer interactions, tendering, data/privacy, transparency). Build a community of practice to share legal learnings and enforcement trends across markets. Support responses for regulatory inquiries, audits, and dawn raids related to pricing, access, and tendering.
• Anticipate and mitigate legal and policy risks arising from market reforms, external reference pricing, procurement pressure, competition enforcement, supply obligations, and evolving access expectations, and translate policy/legal developments into practical guidance and governance tools.

Essential requirements

• Law school graduate & Bar member
• Significant post qualification legal experience, with substantial exposure to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or broader life sciences sector.
• Deep expertise in pricing, reimbursement, market access, health technology assessment, public procurement, competition law, and regulated stakeholder engagement.
• Strong understanding of EU and other national legal frameworks affecting pharmaceutical access and commercialization.
• Demonstrated experience advising on complex cross border matters involving policy change, launch strategy, payer contracting, and enforcement risk.
• Fluent English both written & verbal; any additional language is an advantage

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