Market Access Head FAC

Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION:

About Abbott

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• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of .
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Established Pharmaceuticals

We are committed to bringing the benefits of our trusted medicines to more people in the world’s fastest-growing countries. Our broad portfolio of high-quality and differentiated branded generic medicines reaches across multiple therapeutic areas including gastroenterology, women’s health, cardiometabolic, pain management/central nervous system, and respiratory.

Abbott Established Pharma in French Africa is looking for a Market Access Head to be based in Algiers.

Core Job Responsibilities:

Horizon Scan
Monitor government and payer policies, especially as related to coverage, pricing, reimbursement, tender, formulary listing, demand control of EPD portfolio, disseminate business implications, call for actions, increase our pro-activeness

Responsible for MA authorities and customers
– MoH as related to drug pricing, reimbursement, listing or other relevant policies
– Pricing & Reimbursement Authority
– HTA (Health Technology Assessment) Agencies
– Public market listing agencies (e.g. EDL, Universal Coverage, gov’t tender, public hospital drug formulary committees, country-specific drug formularies)
– Private market listing agencies (e.g. private health plans, private insurance drug formularies, private hospital drug formulary committees)

Develop and execute country Market Access plan, including:
– Forward-looking opportunity and risk assessment
– MA customer insights
– MA strategy
– Action plan synergized horizontally (partner functions) and vertically (local-global)
– Proper integration into affiliate business and financial plan

Obtain/ maintain/ optimize portfolio pricing, reimbursement, listing and payer guidelines
– Perform pricing analysis, capture price increase opportunities, minimize price risks
– Prospect growth opportunities (e.g. gov’t health programs, gov’t tenders, private health plans, private insurances)
– Define required portfolio to win, incorporate needs into affiliate portfolio book
– Develop listing or de-listing strategy in collaboration with partner functions
– Optimize payer demand control guidelines (e.g. INN Rx, Gx substitution, restricted Rx)
– Prepare pricing, reimbursement, formulary listing (with or without tender) dossiers
– Negotiate with MA customers to maximize business outcome

Design payer partnership and value-added programs to enhance our value offering

Improve Market Access regulations for off-patent products
– Customize global category value proposition & position paper for local market
– Complement with local evidences
– Represent EPD at local industry association, proactively drive off-patent policies
– Build and lead local external engagement

Build fundamentals for sustainable growth
– Customers: mapping, define/ optimize coverage, ensure quality access
– Talent: recruit talent to profile, continuous talent development

Supervisory/Management Responsibilities:

Supervise country Market Access team

Part of country Leadership team, Part of function Leadership team

Decision-making/ impact:

Directly impact affiliate top and bottom line performance
Approver for country pricing, reimbursement, listing submission
Chief negotiator for country pricing, reimbursement, listing

Key success factors:

• Excellent access to local market access authorities (MOH, Pricing & Reimbursement authorities, HTA agencies, Formulary listing committees) and key stakeholders (experts, academia etc) to obtain insights and perform effective external stakeholder engagement
• Expert knowledge of country/cluster market access regulations and mechanism in order to derive expert insights to guide affiliate/cluster holistic access strategy
• Demonstrate advanced technical skillsets in strategic and tactical pricing, health economics, policy analysis and stakeholder engagement to deliver market access results
• Successful track record in submission and negotiation pricing, reimbursement, formulary listing and payer guidelines in responsible countries/ clusters
• Strong leadership and influencing skills in engaging business leaders and partner functions to establish the function and continuously improve market access contribution to the overall business results

Education required:

University degree. Additional education in Public Health, or Medicines or Pharmacy or Health Economics is a plus

Experience-

10+ years relevant experience in Market Access and/or Regulatory affairs, pricing in pharmaceutical industry

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The salary for this role is between:

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JOB FAMILY:Market Access

DIVISION:EPD Established Pharma

LOCATION:Algeria > Algiers : Lotissement Said Ben Haddadi

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:Standard

TRAVEL:Not specified

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:Not Applicable

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:Not Applicable