Lead, Market Access Strategy
About The Position
At Gilead, Creating Possible drives everything we do. It’s evident in our mission and core values. This is how we built a culture of excellence that is fuelled by a passion for improving the lives of people around the world and advancing the care of patients suffering from life-threatening diseases. We are driven to develop lifesaving products that make a difference for patients around the world. Every day, we aim to transform the promise of science and technology into breakthrough, innovative therapies that have the power to cure, prevent or treat disease. As a research-based bio pharmaceutical company, we are revolutionizing healthcare by bringing medicines to patients in the areas of high unmet need including HCV and other Liver diseases, HIV/AIDS, Haematology, Oncology, and Inflammatory Diseases. When you join Gilead, you join our mission to change the world by enabling people to live healthier and more fulfilling lives.
Requirements
- 6+ years within the biopharma/pharmaceutical industry with experience in pharmaceutical pricing (GtN) and payer negotiations (public and private)
- Advanced degree in science, economics, public health, business, or related field of study would be an asset
- Excellent communication and negotiations skills and demonstrated clear decision making; a strategic mindset and project management and related business analytics, including using project management software
- Experience and knowledge in Canadian access and reimbursement of products in across Gilead’s therapeutic areas would be an asset
- Demonstrated experience in health economic/pharmacoeconomic modeling and health technology assessment process would be an asset; ability to perform budget and financial forecasting and analyses, including experience with spreadsheets and market analytics
- Superior analytics skills, detailed oriented with exceptional organizational skills
- Experience in Canadian pricing environment, with demonstrated expertise to develop strategic pricing options and expertise to support reimbursement negotiations
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional results, managing multiple complex projects simultaneously
- Ability to manage people (AD)
- Comfortable and adaptive to working in a changing ambiguous environment
- Bilingual (English and French) written and verbal skills an asset
Responsibilities
- Ensure effective development, strategic planning and seamless execution of key deliverables, including submissions to Canadian health technology agencies; submissions to provincial and private payers; and pre-launch planning as well as post launch execution
- Lead market access operational excellence through strategic pricing as well as PMPRB and PLA analysis across relevant therapeutic area aligned with the Pricing & Negotiations Lead
- Lead the development and execution of a project management function to support market-access focused launch excellence and planning for the assigned therapeutic area
- Coordinate and support cross-functional project teams to create and execute key market access strategic initiatives that support commercial organizational objectives, including the planning and execution of private and public reimbursement strategies, brand planning, and product negotiations
- Maintain comprehensive acumen of the latest processes, policies, and trends within the Canadian market access and reimbursement environment to enable successful execution of strategic market access plans
- Partner with global colleagues to leverage and adapt organizational tools and frameworks to optimize launch planning and execution for the Canadian market access environment
- Engage local and global cross-functional colleagues to identify opportunities to increase efficiency in project management
- Manage program budgets and invoices
- Assist in the development and execution (where needed) of the negotiation’s strategy
- Pull through the provincial PLAs following the issuance of the LOI from pCPA
- Work together with the field access therapeutic lead to drive access and ensure a suitable environment across Canada for facilitating access to Gilead’s products
Benefits
- discretionary target annual bonus
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
