Associate Manager - Market Access

Our Team

Our ambition: deliver best-in-class enterprise services enabling Sanofi to chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. Sanofi has been building the foundations of enterprise services over the past few years. With the creation of the global business unit Business Operations two years ago, we have elevated our commitment to innovation and excellence.

An expert leadership team, passionate about leading high performance. We are building for the long term. We bring people together – many of them in our four hub locations around the world - which simplify processes, break down barriers and modernize the way we work in Sanofi.

Our critical success factors:

We have identified three key drivers:

1.                  Community - Building a vibrant team that will attract and engage talent, with four global hubs.

2.                  Excellence - Simplifying, standardizing and continuously improving processes to capture synergies, scale effects and productivity improvements.

3.                  Digitalisation - Enabling transparency, data-driven decision-making support, agility and rapid innovation across Sanofi's entire value chain.

About the Job

As Associate Manager, Market Access within Business Operations, collaborate closely with Global Market Access teams to support development and/or update, dissemination, and maintenance of Market Access deliverables for selected key asset(s) in assigned therapy areas.

Main responsibilities:

• People: Support development of market access deliverables, including but not limited to: Disease Primer/ Disease landscape reports, Briefing Books, Health technology assessment [HTA] report evaluations, Analogue analysis, payer value proposition, objection handler and other activities as directed by Global Market Access and Pricing leads, providing strategic decision support and project management expertise.
• Performance: Manage assigned projects to plan and generate secondary research reports and scenario analyses, and support the development of P&R trackers, newsletters and business case reviews in close alignment with Global stakeholder needs. 
  
  Develop and maintain HTA, reimbursement and price tracking mechanisms for competitor brands across disease areas of interest for Sanofi. Stay updated on expertise in TA and key market access trends/ developments in the industry and apply knowledge to ongoing projects. 

• Process: Liaise with stakeholders on project schedule and planning of deliverables, ensuring timely quality and maintaining optimum utilization based on alignment with TA/ brand team priorities.

• Stakeholder: Act as a partner to the Global Market Access teams ensuring timely delivery of assigned projects/ tasks in accordance with the agreed standard process and timelines, independently. Support effective management, conduct and facilitation of Global, Regional and Local stakeholder communication and engagement.
  
  Collaborate with stakeholders to improve support capabilities for market access secondary research, value communications, tracking & monitoring and operational support, including applying innovative AI tools and methodologies. Plan for innovation and future-ready capabilities within BO Market Access team in terms of maintenance and dissemination of these knowledge resources.

About you

1)    Experience: 6+ years of experience in market access, health economics, public health, epidemiology, or other relevant health-related scientific discipline for the pharmaceuticals industry, consultancy or academia with significant experience answering key business questions relevant to enabling patient access and developing strategic market access deliverables.

2)     Soft skills: Demonstrate effective communication, organizational and interpersonal skills. Ability to handle multiple internal stakeholder relationships effectively. Strong customer focus. Excellent communication skills and ability to understand and present complex information in digestible ways for internal (e.g. senior management) and external audiences. Strong team spirit, sense of transversality, multicultural awareness, and ability work as part of a matrixed team structure.

3) Technical skills: Robust understanding of the healthcare system structure of key global markets. Awareness of global healthcare policy landscape. Robust understanding of reimbursement decisions to determine value drivers and how evidence is used in decision making and how it impacts various payers (e.g., providers, patients, health systems). Understanding of the disease environment and developing value communications for payer stakeholders. Ability to apply critical thinking to outputs to generated through effective secondary research to connect the dots across various planes of global healthcare landscapes.

4) Education: Advanced degree in life sciences/ pharmacy/ similar discipline, business or medical degree

5) Languages: Excellent knowledge of English language (spoken and written)

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

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