Market Access Lead - Specialty Care - Jobs in Mississauga, ON

Job Description

Site Name: Canada - Ontario - MississaugaPosted Date: Nov 4 2021Job Purpose

• With a national scope of work, the Market Access Lead reports directly to the Director, Market Access and Payer Solutions. This role is critically accountable to secure (gain, maintain and grow) market access for the Specialty Care therapeutic area within GSKs Canadian portfolio.
• This leadership role collaborates with various directors and senior managers across the business (local, regional and global) including; Market Access, Business Unit, Medical, Health Economics, Pricing, Patient Advocacy and Policy, in order to strategize and execute on market access initiatives which secure product funding in both the public and private market.
• This leadership role oversees, develops, gains approval and supports negotiations on behalf of GSK with national public and private payors in order to secure product listings.
• Canada is a complex Health Technology Market and in order to achieve both the long- and short-term business objectives, the Market Access Lead plays a vital role in providing strategic market access leadership to shape the therapeutic areas market access agenda.

Key Responsibilities

• As a player coach leading a team of market access strategists, you are accountable for securing market access for in-line products while providing strategic assessment and direction for pipeline assets. Support the team to expand strategic capabilities in the execution of differentiated value proposition development, and evidence generation.
• Oversee preliminary market access assessments for portfolio pipeline products to ensure the best allocation of GSK resources and to optimize future listings through the Reimbursement Process.
• Oversee, develop and execute access strategies and tactics to optimize public and private reimbursement (time to listing, breadth of coverage) for assigned therapeutic area. Integrate multiple components such as pricing, real world evidence generation, health technology assessment, budget impact analyses, stakeholder engagement, negotiations, policy etc.
• Oversee the development of reimbursement / MA dossiers for all payers (public and private) to deliver best in class submissions to national HTA bodies (PCODR, CDR, INESSS), provincial and private formularies. These submissions will clearly demonstrate value, through evidence generation, interpretation and communication of our products to Canadian payers.
• You lead a team of local reimbursement experts on local/regional/global cross-functional teams for assigned portfolio. Responsible for influencing and ensuring that Canadian market access needs are incorporated into portfolio strategies to optimize revenue and profit.
• Proactively seek payer insights through strong external relationships to understand value drivers and the payer decision making process, along with the perceived value of product profiles and to test value messaging with ex payer types.
• Ensure Market Access team engage and partner with the Market Access field team (policy, patient, public and private) to gain insights, align, develop and drive the implementation of reimbursement and negotiation strategies, developing clear messages and customized tools aligned with your strategies to help facilitate external engagements.
• Build and maintain a working understanding of the reimbursement landscape, pricing, health economics, patient advocacy and public policy in order to effectively strategize, execute to drive performance across the entire therapeutic area. Navigate dynamic shifts internally driven by data readouts and GSK prioritization and evolution of the health care ecosystem and governing bodies, while balancing global and local strategic objectives.
• As a people leader within the Market Access team, demonstrate leadership by leading by example, coaching, mentoring, driving performance, collaboration and innovation for the division.
• Establish and maintain strong partnership with GSK Global/Franchise market access to maximize value offering to payers and leverage best practice
• Demonstrate the highest levels of governance and comply with GSK policies and procedures as well as all applicable healthcare laws and regulations

Education

• Minimum Bachelors degree - Business / Health Economics, Epidemiology, Public Health Policy, or equivalent.
• Preferred
• MBA / Designate in field - Business / Health Economics, Epidemiology, Public Health Policy, or equivalent.

Experience

• 10+ year’s pharmaceutical/biotech experience (Market Access, Pricing, Sales, Brand Marketing, etc.)

AND

• 5+ years of market access experience within the Oncology / Specialty Pharma / Biotech sector.

AND

• 2+ years of people leadership coaching, driving performance and delivering objectives through others

Attributes

• This individual will have demonstrated experience with the formulation of clear and compelling value propositions and demonstrated success navigating the pricing and reimbursement environment in Canada.
• Strong understanding of the Canadian healthcare system. Knowledge of key trends, issues, opportunities and stakeholder/payors priorities.
• Experienced influencing cross functional stakeholders (including leaders), both internally and externally with differing viewpoints.
• Strategic thinking with the ability to formulate, develop and execute complex strategy while balancing short- and long-term goals
• Proven ability to understand business strategy and to translate it into market access strategies that support the company’s business goals.
• Solid inter-personal skills (authentic, trust builder), with the ability to collaboratively lead cross functional teams and achieve results through others while setting ambitious objectives and having the courage to have difficult constructive conversations (debate)
• Proactive, resilient, trustworthy, intentional and not afraid of challenging the status quo.
• Solution-oriented, with the ability to offer creative options for problem solving.

• Thorough knowledge of GSK portfolio is an asset
• Bilingual (English and French) written and verbal skills an asset.

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GSK is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals to apply to our career opportunities. GSK is committed to accommodating persons with disabilities. If you need accommodation at any stage of the application process or want more information on our accommodation policies, please contact us at canada-recruitment@gsk.com. Please do not send resumes to this e-mail and instead apply through the online application process of this posting.As a health and science-based organization, GSK is committed to following the recommendations as set out by Health Canada and taking all necessary steps to help curb the spread of COVID-19 which includes getting the COVID-19 vaccine. We feel strongly that this is the best way to help protect those we value most: our employees, families, communities and the patients and consumers we serve. To that end, we are taking an important step to ensure the safety of our employees during this global public health crisis.Only employees who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 may attend our Mississauga and Laval corporate offices. In addition, all customer-facing employees who, as part of their job, attend healthcare settings such as hospitals, pharmacies, doctors’ offices and dentists’ offices will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Notwithstanding the foregoing, employees may seek an accommodation for human rights-related reasons, including medical or disability-related conditions, or religious beliefs.Important notice to Employment businesses/ AgenciesGSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSKs commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.Quick Apply

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