LAarge company needing a Market Access Manager.
Duties Responsibilities:
Identify influencers and decision makers in Funding organizations that provide reimbursement for Company, products.
Reactively intervene on a patient to patient level at these Funders to identify the reasons for decline of reimbursement for a Company, Branded Product, and to find a solution to overcome such a decline.
Pro-actively formulate Market Access Value propositions for a Company, product that will enable us to negotiate with these Funders the removal of potential access hurdles on behalf of patients.
With the ultimate objective to drive product strategies, gain and maintain product listings on Funder protocols and formularies, and to ensure reimbursement by facilitating cross functional collaboration within Company, that allows the creation of and the implementation of effective funder strategies.
Play an active part within brand teams and identify opportunities to work collaboratively with cross-functional colleagues to deliver on brand objectives for the assigned key accounts.
Build trusted and strategic relationships with payers to anticipate payers´ agendas, plans and objectives.
Anticipate access barriers, get preferential status and ensure optimal funding of Company, products.
Be the main Company, contact person for payer.
Document and share insights with affiliate organisations.
Anticipate and monitor Contracting Tendering risks and opportunities in Key Accounts.
Develop strategy and concise engagement plans with clear objectives and activities to optimise funding access of Company, products.
Identify and shape multi-stakeholder projects that are of interest to payers and which will position Company, as a trusted and expert company.
Liaise with the Market Access Pricing and Outcomes Research (MAPOR) functions to provide payers with customised relevant clinical and pharmaco-economic information.
Negotiate funding and price levels for Company, Products (if applicable).
Coordinate with other Company, functions that may interact with payers (e.g. Government Affairs).
Regularly track the execution and impact of access activities and the performance at key Funding accounts.
Where appropriate, support contracting and tendering processes and facilitate the development and delivery of proposals.
Eligibility Requirements:
3-5 years’ experience in dealing with and building relationships directly with healthcare stakeholders, in particular payers, in South Africa. (Marktet Access)
Have an understanding of the payer environment in South Africa. It will be beneficial if he/she has worked in a payer organisation before.
Be a registered Health care provider at a Health Professions Council in South Africa (i.e. Nursing Council, Pharmacy Council or Health professions Council of South Africa)
Have the knowledge of the healthcare landscape, including local payer and provider environment and healthcare funding flows
Understand the payer decision-making processes and know who are the key payer stakeholders/influencers
Have knowledge of the needs and agendas of payers and influencers
Knowledge of pharmaco-economic principles
Be competent in Microsoft Excel to an advanced Level.
Be able to formulate Market access Value propositions through building Economic Models in Microsoft Excel.
Requirements:
Be able to build strong and long-lasting relationships with payers
Possess the ability to translate the strategies into actionable and realistic engagement plans to ensure market access of Company, products, in alignment with brand strategies
Be able to collect and share insights with MAPOR and gain support for the development of value propositions which will address local payer needs
Have the ability to deliver customised value propositions to payers to convince them of the Company, product value
Be able to identify Contracting Tendering situations with payers to reach mutually-satisfactory arrangements.
Have the ability to shape multi-stakeholder projects
Have the skill to assess opportunities and risks of funding for the Company, brands.
Be able to monitor performance and adapt plans to external and internal changes.
Eligibility Requirements: Email me or contact me Full CTC with benefits