Strategic Access Manager

Location: Barcelona #LI-Onsite
About the role:
743 million – That’s the number of people whose lives we touch and improve. This role will help to achieve our purpose of reimagining medicine for patients, healthcare professionals and systems by leading the implementation of a sustainable Patient Access strategy at a local (CPO) level; collecting and analyzing data to generate insights for Patient Access submissions that jointly create value for customers, patients and Novartis.
Why to consider this position? You will have the opportunity to join a team focused on bringing value to the healthcare system, having impact on patients' lives. Innovation, collaboration, challenge... that is the ways we work! The Strategic Access Manager is integrated in a cross-functional team with other access, value and business roles. Be part of an incredible journey!
Lead the access strategy in all phases of the product life cycle (Phase II to post-marketing). Prepare the P&R and national access strategy. Lead the RAM/KAM field team in implementing strategy-aligned tactics that ensure adequate access and positioning at both the regional and hospital levels.
Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Lead the access strategy and execution of Novartis products to reach the best positioning and reimbursement condition at local/regional and national level across the entire life cycle.
• Lead the cross functional team (including VAS and TA)
• Having deep understanding of customer needs and the competitive and P&R environment to provide relevant input decisions.
• Provides analytical rationale for Business Cases Build and leverage strong networks and relationships with key customers, key opinion leaders and individual and institutional key decision makers, to optimize the positioning and messaging of
Novartis products and facilitate the co-creation of value propositions with customers.
• Define key milestones from pre-launch to listing and ensure excellent execution.
• Provide filed access team with tools to get the best positioning from a competitive perspective Be a key partner with Global/ Regional team to ensure local needs are taken into account and collect insights.

What you’ll bring to the role:
• Over 5 years of experience in strategic positions (preferably marketing) and/or access.
• Previous successful experience in management of teams or projects.
• Experience working with global and/or international teams.
• Fluent written and spoken Spanish and English languages.
• It is an advantage: Knowledge of the Spanish healthcare ecosystem, access processes (price & reimbursement, value dossier) & Pharmacoeconomics.
You’ll receive: Company Pension Plan, Life and Accidental Insurance, Meals Allowance or Canteen in the office, Flexible working hours.
Why consider Novartis?
743 million lives were touched by Novartis medicines in 2022, and while we’re proud of this, we know there is so much more we could do to help improve and extend people’s lives.
We believe new insights, perspectives and ground-breaking solutions can be found at the intersection of medical science and digital innovation. That a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment inspires new ways of working.
We believe our potential can thrive and grow in an unbossed culture underpinned by integrity, curiosity, and flexibility. And we can reinvent what's possible, when we collaborate with courage to tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges aggressively and ambitiously. Because the greatest risk in life, is the risk of never trying!
Imagine what you could do here at Novartis!
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