Market Access Manager

Join a multi-award-winning leading biopharmaceutical company, bring your entrepreneurial curiosity and learning spirit into a career of Purpose and personal growth.
- Play a key role as part of a dynamic and leading market access team
- Drive strategic priorities, partnering with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to maximise business opportunities

Our vision is to be the leaders in making life better for our patients, our customers, and each other. Our breakthrough science & constructive leadership culture set us apart from others in the industry.

Our Australian subsidiary has spent years carefully building a constructive and entrepreneurial culture. We've made great strides in nurturing personal accountability, collaboration, and trust.

**Role Overview**:
Our Market Access team monitors population demographics and develops solutions to give patients access to our medicines. We act as both educators and advocates for our products, processes, and practices that help us revolutionize how our drugs create value in society. Our Department gains and maintains timely access for our medicines, building the company's reputation & advocacy and gaining insight into the needs of top customers.

The Department delivers industry-leading performance in:

- Achieving rapid PBS listings
- Maintaining a high and favorable profile in the media, with stakeholders, and with employees
- Building trust and respect with key customers
- Supporting HTA policy reform

**What will you do**:

- You will ensure optimal and timely reimbursement of medicines. Coordinate industry-leading HTA submissions, including PBAC, co-dependent, and hospital formulary submissions. You will collaborate with the broader MAP & cross-functional teams to develop reimbursement strategies for new and established products and indications.
- You will partner with the broader market access team to ensure submission strategy is aligned to the company's policy positions, to develop stakeholder plans to support PBS access, and to ensure the smooth post-PBAC listing process
- You will prepare clinical and economic evidence to support reimbursement or pricing submissions, including the development of access or outcomes research studies to address identified needs
- You will lead discussions with head office on the clinical development program and provide quality advice on all health economic and pricing matters to cross-functional product teams
- You will develop and manage relationships within local affiliates, regional teams, and global personnel, externally with government officials, Medicines Australia representatives, Oncology Industry Taskforce, clinical experts, and across the industry.
- You will proactively monitor external environment, customers, and competitors, to identify risks and opportunities

**What should you have**:

- You are a graduate in life sciences or health economics or in the life sciences (a postgraduate degree would be an advantage) with at least three years of experience relevant to market access or health outcomes, with hands-on experience in PBAC submission types.
- You are trained or experienced in epidemiology, economic modeling or statistics
- You are results-focused, self-motivated ,and have strong interpersonal effectiveness, particularly in working productively under pressure with stakeholders
- You are excellent in negotiation, strategy development, and implementation with expertise in multi-tasking, excellent commercial acumen, and communication.
- You have excellent technical capabilities in assessing clinical data health economics, including submissions and outcomes research, and are literate in using economic modeling approaches.
- You can embrace a mindset of networking, empowering, experimenting, sharing & learning while maintaining a focus on purpose, high integrity & ethics, patient focus, diversity & inclusiveness.

Our Human Health Division maintains a "patient first, profits later" ideology. The organization comprises sales, marketing, market access, digital analytics, and commercial professionals who are passionate about their role in bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide.

**WHO WE ARE**

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our Company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

**WHAT WE LOOK FOR **

In a world of rapid innovation, we seek brave Inventors who want to make an Impact in all aspects of our business, enabling breakthroughs that will affect generations to come. We encourage you to bring your disruptive thinking, collaborative spirit and diverse perspective to our organisation.

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