The posting
Medison is a rapidly growing global pharmaceutical company with a strong global presence, operating in 5 continents and over 34 countries. Our mission is to provide access to highly innovative therapies to patients who suffer mainly from cancer and rare diseases, in many international markets. If you are passionate about making a difference and want to be part of our mission, join us!
The Nordics Market Access Manager is responsible for developing and executing integrated market access, pricing, reimbursement, public affairs, and stakeholder engagement strategies across the Nordic region (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Iceland). The role ensures optimal patient access for Medison’s products by shaping the external environment, building value-based access strategies, and securing reimbursement aligned with Medison's short-, medium-, and long-term business objectives.
The position serves as the primary market access expert for the Nordic region, leading payer engagement, HTA and reimbursement strategies, pricing negotiations, and cross-functional launch planning. Working closely with Country Managers, Commercial, Medical, Regulatory, and Global teams, the Nordics Market Access Manager ensures market access considerations are embedded throughout the product lifecycle, from early assessment through launch and lifecycle optimization.
The role will represent Medison with payer organizations, reimbursement authorities, HTA agencies, patient organizations, industry associations, and other key stakeholders, while contributing to Medison's reputation as a trusted partner bringing innovative medicines to patients with unmet medical needs.
Responsibilities
Market Access and reimbursement:
- Develop and execute integrated market access strategies across the Nordic markets to secure timely and sustainable patient access.
- Lead reimbursement, pricing, and HTA strategies for both inline and pipeline products.
- Initiate, lead, and support pricing and reimbursement negotiations with national and regional authorities.
- Develop country-specific and Nordic-wide access plans, ensuring alignment with business objectives and launch timelines.
- Identify market access risks and opportunities and proactively develop mitigation and access acceleration plans.
- Collaborate with regional, global, and partner teams to develop compelling payer value propositions.
- Support development and adaptation of health economic models, budget impact analyses, and value dossiers for Nordic stakeholders.
- Translate clinical and real-world evidence into meaningful reimbursement and payer narratives.
- Identify evidence gaps and support evidence generation initiatives to strengthen reimbursement positioning.
Pricing and Contracting
- Develop and implement pricing strategies that maximize patient access while ensuring appropriate value capture.
- Assess and recommend innovative pricing and contracting approaches, including managed entry agreements where relevant.
- Ensure compliance with internal pricing governance processes and partner requirements.
- Support pricing assumptions and access forecasts as part of business planning and portfolio prioritization.
Cross-Functional & Partner Collaboration and Leadership:
- Partner closely with Commercial, Medical, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Finance, Legal, Compliance, and global stakeholders to deliver integrated access strategies.
- Serve as the primary market access interface with Medison's biopharmaceutical partners for Nordic market access matters.
- Support partner discussions related to pricing, reimbursement, HTA planning, and launch readiness.
- Ensure strong alignment between local, regional, global, and partner objectives.
- Position Medison as a credible and science-driven partner within the Nordic healthcare ecosystem.
- Ensure all pricing, reimbursement, stakeholder engagement, and public affairs activities are conducted in compliance with local regulations, industry codes, and Medison policies.
- Maintain appropriate documentation and governance for all market access activities and interactions.
- cross-functional, regional and global stakeholders
Requirements
- Strong understanding of payer and government environment, including reimbursement, pricing, and contracting, value drivers, formulary management, understanding HTA (Health Technology Assessment) policy and government affairs/policy/advocacy at local level
- Minimum 5 years of expertise and experience in corporate affairs/market access within biopharma/pharma industry
- Minimum 5 years of experience with direct payer or experience in product commercialization
- Fluency in English language, both written and verbal, is a prerequisite.
- Strong oral & written presentation skills
- Strong leadership skills with demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and engage in productive debate and collaboration with senior leaders
- Excellent communication skills, including interpersonal skills to foster collaboration and succeed in a highly matrixed environment
- Strong strategic planning skills—both at the product and country (cross-portfolio) levels
- Openly promotes leadership and cooperation across the organization
- Demonstrates exceptional issue management skills; always looking for win/win solutions
- Acts as Change Agent who motivates others to stretch by focusing on shared values and goals
- Ability to anticipates future industry trends and opportunities, proactively develops plans to address these and communicates them to Senior Management
- Ability to influence and communicate to our Payers on the product value of Medison’s
- Displays strong organization and time management skills
- Provides frequent and on-going feedback
- Serves as a role model for others in line with Medison Values
