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Sanofi Group Lead, Market Access in Mississauga, Ontario
Reference No. R2686293
Position Title: Lead, Market Access
Department: Value & Access Canada
Location: Mississauga, Ontario
About Sanofi Specialty Care
Sanofi's specialty care business unit focuses on rare diseases, rare blood disorders, neurology, immunology, and oncology. Sanofi's ambition is to leverage science and innovation to improve people’s lives and be the industry leader in immunology and oncology. Its approach is shaped by a long history of developing highly specialized treatments and forging close relationships with physician and patient communities.
At Sanofi, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We believe our cutting-edge science and manufacturing, fueled by data and digital technologies, have the potential to transform the practice of medicine, turning the impossible into possible for millions of people.
Position Summary:
The primary role is to define and implement the integrated payer and HTA strategy to obtain access and reimbursement of Sanofi products. The critical success factor for this role is shifting the dialogue with the payers of the value of the Sanofi offerings, which will result in their increased affordability and accessibility for the patients through the improvement of patient outcomes which in turn impacts efficiency within the healthcare system.
The Lead will work in close collaboration with other teams within the sector, Sanofi Business Units, Regional Public Affairs and Stakeholders, North America and Global Access and Brand teams, Medical Affairs and other functions.
Key Responsibilities:
Per brand/offering, develop, maintain and continuously optimize the market access strategy and payer value proposition throughout its lifecycle.
Formulate evidence based payer value propositions based on robust understanding of payers and their decision making systems.
Define the overall payer strategy to execute the reimbursement and/or tendering strategy, inclusive of the integration of required stakeholders, policy, KOL influencing activities and all relevant functions.
Proactively define the required strategies to shape and influence the desired marketplace, and facilitate the implementation of the plan greater than two years in advance of anticipated customer needs.
Define business growth opportunities within Key Payer Accounts, key factors driving customers’ decisions, and potential solutions to capitalize and optimize payer access as identified from understanding payer needs.
Ensure flawless execution of reimbursement submissions and rebuttals at federal, provincial and hospital levels by building high quality value dossiers with medical, health economics, marketing and provincial payer managers to include clinical dossier, health economic budget impact models and any evidence that can impact decisions.
Support activities within the key therapeutic areas aimed at continuous demonstration and communication of the value of Sanofi offerings to the payers.
Utilizing customer insights and input, elaborate new and innovative strategies including product listing agreements (PLAs) with federal and provincial drug plans, cancer agencies, hospitals and blood services to optimize reimbursement of Sanofi products and offerings in collaboration with the provincial payer manager, business intelligence, health economics, marketing and pricing to optimize revenue for the brands.
Working with external expertise, early input into the Health Economics strategy to support the payer value proposition.
Strong understanding and intelligence of the Canadian payer environment (public and private), CADTH, INESSS and provincial decision-making processes.
Work with the Pricing team to develop sustainable business and achieve local and global approval of the pricing strategy for new products taking into account the policy and politic environment (payers, pCPA, PMPRB), the reimbursement challenges and financial considerations.
Collaborate in the development of stakeholder engagement plans to facilitate activities which enable maximal private and public coverage with expedited provincial reimbursement.
Work with product managers and financial analysts to generate forecasts, including market access projections and product penetration analysis. Ensure validation with provincial and private payer managers.
Work with the global/North American organization to ensure alignment of strategies/share best practices.
Key Requirements:
University degree, master’s degree in health sciences, business, and/or health economics would be an asset.
Experience in the health care arena and/or experience in pharmaceutical industry, either through working in pharmaceutical access departments or in the development of negotiation strategies for payers
Expertise in maneuvering within the government system, especially within the provincial drug plans and health agencies
Leading teams in order to achieve successful negotiations.
Expertise in specialty care medicine with experience in the HTA processes and formulary listing processes.
Experience with oncology or hemophila disease reimbursement pathways would be an asset.
In-depth knowledge and understanding of the healthcare and reimbursement landscape
Understanding of strategic interplays that influence payer decisions
Well established stakeholder/political/influencer network within the provincial public and private payer markets
Strategic influencing and negotiation skills
Strong personal leadership
Excellent analytical skills
Strategy agility and strong business acumen
Organizational agility and courage
Project and vendor management
Ability to deal with ambiguity.
Excellent interpersonal, communication (both oral and written) skills.
Ability to lead teams.
Collaborative
Computer Knowledge:
- Understanding of various health system databases (i.e. IQVIA, pharmacy claims databases) and competency with Microsoft (i.e. Excel, PowerPoint)
Languages:
- English (Bilingual would be an asset)
Travel:
- Travel required, primarily within Canada
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