Pricing & Market Access Associate Director

Job Description

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Strategic planning
• Works closely with International Market Access & Pricing to develop, assess and implement market access strategies for the assigned product/s to support value and access optimization and timely formulary inclusion in targeted health sectors
• Conducts pricing and access landscape assessments, identifies potential reimbursement opportunities, barriers, and proposes solutions.
• Leads payers’ education on the burden of the disease, unmet medical needs and clinical and economic value of assigned product/s.
• Understands the healthcare system transformation in Saudi Arabia and the evolution of new entities that will play future role in access landscape.
• Leads development of local Market Access strategies and creation of core access value messages and deliverables to support local value and access optimization
• Leads the pricing and access component of local launch readiness ensuring that the payer position is consistently represented to internal cross-functional stakeholders and ensures robust strategic input into commercialization and development decisions
• Evidence generation and value communication
• Partners cross-functionally with HEOR & Int. Market Access to ensure robust dossier and integrated evidence plans are optimized to support market access and reimbursement in Saudi Arabia
• Leads the development of Saudi value dossiers and pre-launch plans ensuring local strategies are supported with deep functional knowledge, in-depth market research, environmental data & analogues
• Informs financial forecasts and launch planning
• Works on the execution and negotiation of pricing and access strategy, including the localization of access strategy, economic models (BIM/CEA) and pricing business cases
• Supports capability building and thought leadership projects that advance knowledge of and readiness for the rapidly evolving payer environment.
• Collaborates closely with HEOR, Pricing & Market Access, Government Affairs and Public Policy, Marketing and Clinical Development / Medical counterparts to ensure value and access optimization
• **Required Education** **Level**
• Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline

Required Experience

• At least 10 years of Market Access experience in KSA market; depth of experience in pre-launch strategy and tactical implementation will be an advantage
• In depth understanding of the local pharmaceutical market, pricing and reimbursement and outcomes research
• Experience in Market Access for advanced therapies, and therapy areas like rare diseases and nephrology would be an advantage.

Required Knowledge/Skills

• Excellent command in reading, writing and speaking English and Arabic
• Ability to think strategically and make sound pricing and market access recommendations that maximize the asset value
• Experience conducting negotiations with external stakeholders
• Strong practical, quantitative and analytical skills combined with a sound understanding of how to successfully apply pricing & reimbursement / HEOR principles to support Vertex
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills, including the ability to effectively write and deliver presentations to professionals at all levels within Vertex
• Relationship building and collaboration with all levels of the organization and across geographies
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with local network market access decision makers
• Excellent interpersonal skills to communicate complex concepts and negotiate with others

Work Location

• Based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• We can only consider Saudi Citizens for this role, so please apply if you have Saudi Passport.

Flex Eligibility Status

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