Head of Market Access

Bringing life-changing medicines to millions of people, Novartis sits at the intersection of cutting-edge medical science and innovative digital technology. As a global company, the resources and opportunities for growth and development are plentiful including global and local cross functional careers, a diverse learning suite of thousands of programs and an in-house marketplace for rotations and project work. With strong medicines pipeline our current transformation will not just deliver growth for our business but continue to allow us to bring innovative medicines to patients quickly.
- As part of the IMI transformation, we have a newly open position of Head of Market Access. This role is critical and responsible for leading the value framework for the product portfolio and the generation of real-world evidence.
- Your Responsibilities:
- Provide data and models to establish value prospect for drugs in early and late stage development and partner with BD&L
- Drive decision-making through the stage gate process, advising clinical, medical, and program management of any external data regarding market feasibility
- Co-create a path with payers to disencumber access and determine key patient and economic outcomes required
- Generate real world evidence, proactively designing trials, coordinating data and ensuring the correct data end points
- Integrate and coordinate with the franchises to develop the brand plan
- Lead the scientific basis for outcomes-based contracting
- Ensure US market needs are represented in global plans
- Lead the Market Access team of 10-12 people; build a best-in class team and succession pipeline
- attracting, developing, and retaining top talent for the organization with a patient-centric mindset

**Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion**:

- Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve._

**Minimum requirements**
- Your Profile:
- Minimum of 10 years in pharma industry with at least 5 years in HEOR
- Coaching and leadership experience.
- Understanding of market access, and experience identifying payer's needs
- Understanding of commercial for market feasibility (e.g., has played a leading role in developing a health economics plan for a launch product or for a primary drug)
- Experience collaborating and innovating across functions and external stakeholders

Experiences:
- Leadership: Setting direction, managing and developing people and teams, analyzing and assessing current and future talent requirements
- Strategy Development: Defining and developing the long-term direction for the function.
- Organizational Representation: Representing the organization externally, with partners, industry representatives, regulators and other key stakeholders.
- Cross-unit Collaboration: Working across functions, geographies, locations, business units, portfolios and P&L’s.

Why Novartis?
- 766 million lives were touched by Novartis medicines in 2021, 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 aggressively and ambitiously tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges. Because the greatest risk in life, is the risk of never trying
- Imagine what you could do here at Novartis**Division**
- PHARMA

**Business Unit**
- AMAC

**Country**
- Australia

**Work Location**
- Sydney

**Company/Legal Entity**
- AU Pharma Pty Ltd

**Functional Area**
- Market Access

**Job Type**
- Full Time

**Employment Type**
- Regular

**Shift Work**
- No

**Early Talent**
- No