Healthcare Access Senior Manager

Role Overview

Team Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop the Health Access Managers team, building a high-performing, geographically deployed field force.
• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous learning, and patient-centricity across the team.

Account & Payer Engagement

• Build deep knowledge of each account's strategic priorities, competitive landscape, and reimbursement processes.
• Deliver compelling value stories to support product formulary listings and reimbursement objectives with external stakeholders.
• Translate clinical and economic evidence into persuasive, payer-facing conversations at senior levels.
• Proactively identify payer barriers and develop tailored materials and content to address them.
• Anticipate customer evidence needs across the product lifecycle and coordinate with cross functional teams to address gaps.

Strategy Implementation

• Implement access strategies developed by the Market Access function, adapting delivery to account-specific dynamics.
• Communicate field intelligence upstream to Market Access and HTA functions to inform access strategies and evidence generation priorities.
• Maximize product inclusion across all governmental sector hospitals through targeted, coordinated activities.
• Collaborate with Commercial and Brand teams to align access timelines with launch plans, accelerating patient access to Pfizer medications.

Issue Resolution & Compliance

• Conduct root cause analysis on access barriers; coordinate rapid cross-functional resolution and escalate where required.
• Leverage organizational resources — including Market Access, Finance, Business Intelligence, Medical, and Sales & Marketing — to solve complex access challenges.
• Ensure full compliance with applicable SOPs, company policies, and industry regulations.
• Maintain current knowledge of company strategy, policy, and the evolving Saudi healthcare landscape.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in pharmacy or a related medical field (required).
• Advanced degrees (MBA, Health Economics, or equivalent) is a plus.

Experience

• Minimum 7 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, with at least 4 years focused on market access, payer engagement, or reimbursement in Saudi Arabia.
• Demonstrated track record of securing reimbursement outcomes across Saudi governmental accounts.
• Prior experience managing or leading a field-based team is strongly preferred.

Skills & Competencies

• Deep knowledge of the Saudi healthcare system, reimbursement pathways, and market dynamics.
• Strong negotiation skills with the ability to engage credibly with senior payers and decision-makers.
• Proven ability to translate clinical and economic evidence into compelling payer-facing value propositions.
• Strong leadership and coaching capability, with experience developing distributed field teams.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.
• Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.
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