Head of National Market Access & Pipeline

Are you passionate about driving change in innovative treatments and making a real difference in patients' lives? Can you use your expertise in Market Access and Health Economy to navigate complex healthcare landscapes? Do you want to lead and inspire a team of experts to create impactful strategies that ensure market access success?
As a company we are now expanding into new therapy areas - join us and take charge. Apply today and become our Head of National Market Access & Pipeline!
The Position
As the Head of Market Access, you will be responsible for securing national market access for Novo Nordisk's product portfolio in Sweden and ensuring the organization is fully prepared for future market entries. You will lead the national Market Access team and play a key role in cross-functional collaboration efforts, ensuring that both mid- and long-term strategic commercial and access perspectives are integrated into business planning and decision-making processes. Your leadership will be instrumental in driving the market access strategy and delivering success for Novo Nordisk in Sweden.
In addition, you will:

• Drive strategies for horizon scanning, market access, scenario planning, and negotiation strategies.
• Build capabilities and cross-regional intelligence on market potential for pipeline and launch preparations.
• Develop expertise in Pricing & Market Access, focusing on future HTA developments and industry trends across the EU, Nordics, and Sweden.
• Monitor and evaluate market access developments with significant business impact, providing strategic recommendations for improvement.
• Lead strategic initiatives to capitalize on commercial opportunities while ensuring a strong focus on market development and preparation for new product entries.

The position is based in Malmö, with travel to Stockholm (or vice versa).
Qualifications
We are looking for a proactive and innovative person who aims at inspiring others and challenging the status quo. As working cross-functionally with many stakeholders is a crucial part of the role, we need a highly collaborative professional with great communication skills and commercial acumen.
Moreover, we expect our candidate to:

• Hold a university degree in life science or business
• Have a proven experience of working in the pharmaceutical industry within sales, marketing, or market access/public affairs
• Have a strong understanding of the Swedish healthcare system
• Possess leadership experience managing direct reports
• Be a fluent speaker of Swedish and English

About the Department
In this role you'd be reporting directly to the Senior Director Market Access and Public Affairs and collaborating closely with and outside of the team.
We use your voice to help people achieve better health by providing effective comms that aim to always shift perceptions. We're a department full of collaborative and passionate experts - responsible for creating access of our products to patients and for securing responsible business practises, effective communication, and the building of strong relationships with key stakeholders. Here there's not only room to move up, but there's also the chance to thrive, grow and adapt as we do - creating completely unique career trajectories for everyone while making a positive impact on millions around the world.
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.
Contact
If you have any questions, please reach out to Sr. Director of Market Access and Public Affairs, Helena Anderin - [email protected]
Deadline
Please, apply no later than 19 October 2024
Please apply to the role via our online platform as we do not accept directly sent CVs
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.