Market Access Manager Vaccines

Job Description

As the Market Access Manager you will be responsible for developing and executing market access strategies to ensure timely sustainable patient access to our companys inline and pipeline pharmaceutical and vaccine portfolio. The role ensures optimal pricing reimbursement and formulary positioning by translating scientific clinical health economic and realworld evidence into compelling value propositions for payers and healthcare decisionmakers.

You will partner closely with Medical HEOR Regulatory Policy Marketing and Regional/Global Market Access teams and plays a critical role in new product launches lifecycle management and policy shaping in alignment with our companys mission to save and improve lives.

Key Responsibilities

Market Access Strategy & Execution

• Develop and implement market access strategies for both inline products and new launches to achieve favorable pricing reimbursement and formulary inclusion.

• Define evidencebased access pathways pricing frameworks and execution plans aligned with payer expectations and patient value.

• Support new product planning (NPP) activities up to 24 months prelaunch including competitive landscape analysis access risk assessment and early stakeholder engagement.

Pricing Reimbursement & Dossier Management

• Lead or independently execute pricing and reimbursement submissions including preparation and coordination of value dossiers BIA HEOR components and payer materials.

• Conduct pricing analyses (e.g. international reference pricing internal/external benchmarking scenario modeling) to optimize commercial outcomes.

• Contribute to tender strategies contracting approaches and access negotiations where applicable.

Health Economics & Evidence Generation

• Partner with Medical Affairs and HEOR teams to identify and develop health economic and realworld evidence aligned with access needs.

• Support local adaptation of economic models validation of assumptions incorporation of local data and development of manuscripts or publications.

• Translate complex data into clear payerfocused value messages that demonstrate innovation outcomes and system value.

Stakeholder & Policy Engagement

• Conduct stakeholder mapping and develop engagement strategies with payers HTA bodies policy makers hospitals and key healthcare institutions.

• Collaborate with Policy / External Affairs to help shape a conducive pricing and reimbursement environment leveraging scientific evidence realworld data and international best practices.

• Build and maintain trusted compliant relationships with internal and external stakeholders to support sustainable access.

CrossFunctional Leadership & Governance

• Work crossfunctionally with Marketing Medical Regulatory Finance and Regional/Global Market Access teams to ensure alignment on access deliverables and value messaging.

• Lead or contribute to crossfunctional launch teams and governance forums ensuring access readiness and execution excellence.

• Track market access KPIs and continuously improve pricing access and reimbursement performance.

Required Qualifications

Education

• Bachelors degree in Pharmacy Life Sciences Health Economics Public Health Medicine or a related field (Masters degree preferred).

Experience

• Minimum 3 years of experience in Market Access HEOR Pricing & Reimbursement or broader pharmaceutical industry experience with access exposure.

• Demonstrated experience supporting pricing/reimbursement submissions and product launches is strongly preferred.

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong understanding of local healthcare systems pricing & reimbursement processes and payer decisionmaking.

• Solid analytical skills including ability to interpret health economic clinical and realworld data.

• Excellent stakeholder engagement communication and project management skills.

• High learning agility problemsolving capability and ability to work effectively in matrix environments.

• Proficiency in Excel data analysis and presentation tools; strong written and spoken English.

Behavioral & Cultural Expectations

• Acts with integrity patient focus and scientific rigor

• Demonstrates strong collaboration in a highly matrixed crossfunctional organization

• Embraces diversity inclusion and our companys values

• Operates with compliance and ethical decisionmaking at all times

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