Are you ready to make a powerful impact on patient access and healthcare innovation? As the Market Access Manager at GSK, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our Specialty Care brands within Canada’s dynamic healthcare landscape. Reporting to the Market Access Lead, you'll spearhead the development of comprehensive strategies that ensure our innovative products reach the patients who need them most.
Collaborating with a diverse range of cross-functional teams—including Market Access, Business Unit, Medical Affairs, Health Economics, Pricing, Patient Engagement, External Affairs, and Policy—you will drive impactful initiatives that navigate both public and private market access. With your strategic leadership, you will shape the market access agenda, ensuring the success of our brands in the complex Canadian health technology market and driving long-term business objectives. This is a Hybrid position reporting our Mississauga office.
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*This is a hybrid job, reporting to our Mississauga, Ontario office.
Key Responsibilities
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Lead the development and execution of market access strategies, including pre-launch planning and HTA/private payer submission, to communicate brand value to payers.
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Co-lead evidence generation assessment and planning with the health economics and outcomes research team to support market access goals.
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As a core brand team member, provide market access expertise to meet brand objectives and contribute to commercial brand planning.
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Represent market access on regional and global teams to ensure Canadian market access needs are included in brand strategies for optimal patient access.
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Maintain a thorough understanding of health policy and the access environment, proactively sharing and acting on trends or changes.
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Seek payer insights to understand value drivers, the payer decision-making process, and product profile perception to enhance reimbursement submissions and payer strategy.
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Develop negotiations strategies to optimize public and private payer reimbursement of assigned products and monitor existing product listing agreements for continued optimized patient access.
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Partner with GCA field-based team to align and implement reimbursement and negotiations strategies, creating clear messages and customized tools for external engagements.
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Uphold the highest standards of governance and comply with GSK policies, procedures and applicable healthcare laws and regulations.
Basic Qualifications
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Bachelors Degree in Science, Health Economics, Epidemiology/Pharmacy or equivalent.
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5+ years pharmaceutical/biotech experience (Market Access, Pricing, Sales, Brand Marketing, etc.)
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3+ years of market access experience and/or related function (HEOR) within the Specialty Pharma / Biotech sector.
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In-depth knowledge of the HTA (CDA and INESSS), pCPA and private payer processes in Canada preferred
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Strong commercial and business background is an asset.
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Proficient in understanding and critically appraising clinical data, and effectively communicating the outcomes and their implications to HTA and payers.
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Solid understanding of health economics and outcomes research and its implications on payer decision-making
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In-depth understanding of the Canadian healthcare system, including key trends, issues, opportunities, and stakeholder/payer priorities.
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Strategic mindset with the capability to develop and implement complex strategies, balancing both short-term and long-term objectives.
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Proven experience in collaborating with and influencing cross-functional partners (including leaders), both internally and externally, with diverse perspectives.
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Excellent interpersonal skills (authentic, trust builder), with the ability to lead cross-functional teams collaboratively and achieve results through others, while setting ambitious goals and having the courage to engage in constructive, difficult conversations.
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Demonstrated ability to comprehend business strategy and translate it into market access strategies that align with the company's business objectives.
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Proactive, resilient, trustworthy, intentional, and unafraid to challenge the status quo.
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Solution-oriented, with a talent for offering creative options for problem-solving
Preferred Qualifications
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Preferred advanced degree in Life Sciences, Health Economics, Epidemiology, PharmD, MBA or equivalent.
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Bilingual (English and French) written and verbal skills an asset.
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GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).
Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.
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