Market Access and Policy Manager

Job Description:

Market Access and Policy Manager Lithuania

Do you want to help our company to become the world’s best healthcare company – while unleashing your own full potential? Do you relish the opportunity to have a high level of independence and be fully accountable for the market access for half of our portfolio – for market access of our vaccines, virology, upcoming cardiovascular products and select oncology franchise, with multiple launches to come in the near future ?

Then you could be our new Market Access Manager for our company's activities in Lithuania.

The position:

Our company's Lithuanian Market Access department is expanding to accommodate increased need for access work with multiple upcoming launches. We will expand from current setup of one Market Access Manager taking care of all products to two Market Access Managers dividing the product portfolio and then each being fully responsible for roughly half the portfolio, while closely collaborating with each other and the other colleagues in the company.

As our new Market Access Manager you will also report to Baltic Market Access Manager with a dotted line to Baltics Managing Director in acting Lithuanian country management role. You will shape access environment for your franchises, including shaping tender/contract criteria beyond price to reflect the value of our drugs. In addition, you will develop and execute on market access strategies to ensure best possible patient access throughout the product life cycle.

Responsibilities:

1. Responsible for, in cooperation with other relevant functions, to communicate value arguments in order to demonstrate the economic value for assigned products and through this help to build support for corporate pricing strategies while achieving broadest possible access for Lithuanian patients.

2. Be contact person for the key internal and external customers for the assigned franchises.

3. Responsible for reimbursement and internal price approval processes of assigned products.

4. Responsible, for assigned products, for localization of our company's health economics modelling and for development of other relevant materials, solutions, projects, studies or analysis that are considered locally necessary to show the added value of our company's products and to achieve optimal access in Lithuania.

5. Responsible for coordinating the internal work on feedback to regional functions regarding new product opportunities for reimbursement and HTA needs.

6. Continually monitor and evaluate changes in the healthcare and policy environment to identify emerging opportunities and risks for pricing, reimbursement, patient access and our company's broader policy priorities, and recommend appropriate actions.

7. Develop and execute policy and advocacy strategies, identifying opportunities to shape the external environment and address policy barriers that may impact patient access to our company's innovations.

8. Build and maintain effective relationships with relevant policymakers, healthcare authorities, professional societies, patient organizations and other external stakeholders to advance agreed policy priorities and support an environment that enables innovation and patient access.

9. Monitor and assess relevant healthcare policy, legislative and regulatory developments in Lithuania, translating these developments into implications, opportunities and risks for our company and it's portfolio.

10. Contribute to broader healthcare policy initiatives, including through industry associations and external partnerships, on topics such as access to innovation, prevention, immunisation, healthcare investment and health system sustainability.

What we look for …

• Knowledge of decision-making process in the healthcare environment, ability to interact efficiently with senior decision makers
• Experience in engaging and influencing senior external stakeholders, including policymakers, healthcare authorities, professional societies, patient organizations and/or industry associations.
• Proven project management skills and ability to prioritize according to business needs
• Ability to understand healthcare policy dynamics, translate business and patient access priorities into policy objectives, and drive the policy agenda for assigned franchises.
• Social and professional maturity
• Good leadership skills
• Excellent interpersonal communication and influencing skills
• Analytical skills
• Proficiency in English (written and oral)

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively for the common good. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

Required Skills:

Healthcare Reimbursement, Health Economic Modeling, Health Economics, Health Economics Research, Health Policy Analysis, Health Technology Assessment (HTA), Interpersonal Relationships, Market Research, Pricing Processes, Strategic Planning

Preferred Skills:

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The primary location for this posting is:

LTU - Vilnius - Vilnius

Where required by law, the compensation range for this role is provided below.

The base salary range for the primary location of this position is:

€59,600.00 - €101,400.00

This range reflects the Company's reasonable expectation of the base salary applicable to this role at the time of posting. This will be based on an individual’s experience, skills, effort, responsibilities, organization needs and compensation levels within their peer group. If applicable, employees may also be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentives or other benefits. This role could be part of a collective bargaining agreement / national collective labor agreement. Our Talent Acquisition team will provide further information to you, if applicable.

Additional location(s): Please note the salary range above applies to the Primary Location of the position. Where a role has other listed locations, different compensation guidelines may apply. You may find the salary ranges and CBA information (as applicable) for additional locations below. If the salary range is not listed for the location you are applying to, our Talent Acquisition team will provide further information to you relevant to your location.

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Regular

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Job Posting End Date:

12/20/2026

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