Value & Access Manager

At Amgen, every challenge is an opportunity. And every opportunity brings the potential to change lives. Our shared mission—to serve patients—has driven our status as one of the world’s preeminent biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Leverage your high-level expertise to lead and forge partnerships that advance biotechnical and biopharmaceutical science that can turn the tide of serious, life-interrupting illnesses.

VALUE AND ACCESS MANAGER

LIVE 
What you will do

The Value and Access Manager (V&A) will be a strategic member of the local Value, Access and Policy team team,  reporting directly to the Value, Access & Policy Lead.

This position will support the Amgen portfolio using strong analytics and cross-functional management.

The Value and Access Manager will

• Advice on the best access strategy for our upcoming launches and current portfolio
• Ensure successful coverage and reimbursement decisions to maximize patient access for our portfolio
• Drive Health Technology Assessment (HTAs) with value evidence, adopting Global Value proposition into local value proposition
• Initiate local payer/provider interactions with value evidence
• Negotiate the best price for our products
• Manage the repricing of our products

Responsibilities:

• Initiate the most effective and timely strategy to obtain market access for products by managing timely preparation, submission and follow-up of pricing and reimbursement files
• Propose and implement the agreed local market access strategy during the life cycle of products by working closely with, Medical, Marketing & Sales to secure broad product access for Amgen new and existing product portfolio
• Take leadership of HTAs at the national level in close collaboration with Medical and Commercial colleagues
• Value Evidence Generation in scope of dossiers and publications
• Anticipate changing payer landscape maintaining deep understanding of payers, including emerging trends that might impact Amgen products
• Drive reimbursement/pricing negotiations with payers
• Manage repricing of products internally and externally
• Keep EU and global colleagues informed about and seek support on all ongoing submissions

Outputs (what you'll need to deliver): 

• National and product related Access strategies
• Local HTA Dossiers
• Local pricing and negotiation strategies
• Financial business cases
• Payer network and strategy

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What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The Value and Access Manager professional we seek is a Manager with these qualifications:

• Academic education (Master of Science, MBA or PhD in Economics, Health Services Research)
• >5 years’ experience in a leading pharmaceutical/biotechnology company or related consultancy or within government or HTA body
• Fluency in oral and written English and fluency in Greek is essential
• Experience in Greek healthcare environment
• Experience in complex HEOR issues and in communicating about it to non-experts
• Strong analytical skills and well experienced in working with Excel
• Solid project management skills for multiple tasks/projects/priorities and complex issues to propose innovative solutions
• Strong cross-functional leadership within the organization and ability to drive and influence peers in complex (matrix) organization
• Experience in negotiations will be considered a plus 
• Experience with the Cyprus healthcare system we be considered a plus

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What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, so we work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.

• Vast opportunities to learn and move up and across our global organization.
• Diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act.

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