Healthcare Partnership Manager

Healthcare Partnership Manager to join a global pharmaceutical company.  As Healthcare Partnership Manager you will be covering Greater Manchester, Lancashire & Cumbria.  Salary package for the Healthcare Partnership Manager is c£55,000 + bonus + pension + healthcare + life assurance. 

Job Purpose:

• Develop payer intimacy and adopt transparent payer relationships in order to optimise company brands
•  Anticipate access barriers, get preferential status and ensure optimal funding of company products
•  Develop strategy and concise engagement plans with clear objectives and activities to optimise funding & access of company products
• Be pro-active not reactive to changing environment and payer needs and share insights across organisation
• Acting as main contact for specified brands and coordinating interactions
•  Communication of the value proposition of products and ensure that health economics content is adequately communicated to payers
• Identify and shape multi-stakeholder projects
• Work collaboratively with in field sales team to optimise performance of key accounts

Major Accountabilities:

• Play an active part within infield teams and identify opportunities to work collaboratively with cross-functional colleagues to deliver on brand objectives for the assigned key accounts
• Work closely with sales representatives to achieve access in key accounts
• Build trusted and strategic relationships with payers to anticipate payers´agendas, plans and objectives
• Anticipate access barriers, get preferential status and ensure optimal funding of company products
• Be the main contact for payers
• Document and share insights with organisation
• With contracts department, anticipate and monitor contracting & tendering risk and opportunities in Key Accounts
• Identify and shape multi-stakeholder projects that are of interest to payers
• Provide payers with customised relevant clinical and pharmaco-economic information
• Regularly track the execution and impact of activities and performance of key accounts
• Where appropriate, support contracting and tendering processes and facilitate the development and delivery of proposals

Skills and Experience Required:

• Educated to degree level in a Life Science subject
• Proven experience of interacting and building relationships directly with healthcare stakeholders, in particular payers
• Proven experience of managing a team desirable
• Knowledge of the healthcare landscape, including local payer and provider environment and healthcare funding flows
• Knowledge of pharmaco-economic principles
• Proven track record in medical sales