Market Access Manager (fix-term contract)

Are you passionate about shaping market access strategies? Do you have the expertise to drive market access initiatives for innovative healthcare solutions? We are seeking a Market Access Manager for a 6-month maternity cover contract to join our team in Madrid, Spain. If you are ready to make a significant impact, read more and apply today for a life-changing career.

The Position (6-month maternity cover contract)

The Market Access Manager, reporting to the Market Access Head, has a key leadership role in developing and driving the market access strategy for the diabetes Novo Nordisk portfolio, aligned with the global Market Access strategy and framed in the Brand Plan.

Among your main responsibilities will be:

• Setting direction: Collaborate in defining the strategic lines and actions of the products under its responsibility to ensure & optimize its access. Provide support to the price negotiations of the product/s under its responsibility, offering information and data that facilitate the relevant argumentation and collaborate in the definition of the pricing strategy. 
• Strategic analysis: Actively monitor legislative & healthcare environment in the market access field and analyse the potential impact of new trends on the company or Novo Nordisk’s products. Understand the perception of customers (payers, managers, pharmacists, politicians and influencers) through market research or advisory boards (unmet needs, willingness to pay, perception of products/therapeutic areas...).
• Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) & Evidence Generation: Develop local adaptation of economic models (CoC, CEA…), epidemiology and burden of disease studies. Preparation of national/regional/local Budget Impact Models and economic data when necessary. Define and execute the local Real-World Evidence (RWE) plan needed to generate evidence for payers.  
• Value communication and Health Technology Assement (HTA): Develop local value stories for payers and decision makers, Value Dossiers and other value materials & tools and establish key value proposition elements to defend our product value in terms of HTA.
• Stakeholder engagement: Develop payer engagement activities to disseminate the value of NN products and innovative projects bring value to our customers. Design, coordinate and ensure the implementation of engagement plans related to P&R processes.
• Pricing: Manage Price Business Cases and provide support in pricing decisions.

Qualifications

• Life Sciences Degree (Pharmacy, Chemistry, Biology, Biochemistry or Medicine) and/or Economics
• Postgraduate qualification or relevant experience in Health Economics
• Deep knowledge of Spanish health care system, market access dynamics & pharma market
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in market access in the pharmaceutical industry or in a consultancy company.  
• Experience in the retail pharma products market
• Experience with diabetes would be a plus
• Fluent in English and Spanish

About the Department

Join our dynamic Market Access team based in Madrid, Spain. We are committed to driving optimal market access for Novo Nordisk's current and future products. Our team thrives in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, working closely with global and local stakeholders to ensure our therapies reach patients who need them. With a focus on innovation, we aim to make a meaningful impact on healthcare outcomes.

Working at Novo Nordisk

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

Deadline

Apply before 18/03/2025.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.