Associate Market Access Specialist: Tenders

7 days ago

Midrand, South Africa MSD Full time

Our Market Access team monitors population demographics and develops solutions to give patients access to our innovative medicines and vaccines. We act as both educators and advocates for our products, processes, and practices that help us revolutionize how our medicines create value in society.

**Primary **Responsibilities**
- The Associate Pricing and Tender Specialist is the expert on the pricing and reimbursement processes and legislation and works very closely with the rest of the Market Access Team.
- The Associate Pricing and Tender Specialist is responsible for maintaining and improving reimbursement for products through the development and implementation of market access strategies and tactics, stakeholder relations and pricing policy activities in collaboration with Market Access team.
- Manage pricing databases as well as Tenders.
- Timeous analysis and submissions of Single Exit Price updates to the Department of Health.
- Close working relationship with the Pharmaceutical Economic Evaluations at the Department of Health.
- Monitoring of databases for publication of Tenders as well as updates.
- Ensure alignment with the Product Teams on activities that directly impact the reimbursement status of products/ indications.
- Interface and partner with internal and external stakeholders.
- Responsible for reporting adverse experiences or events (AEs), adverse device events (ADEs), product quality complaints (PQCs) and other reportable information, customer feedback (CF), alleged counterfeiting, diversion and tampering (CDT) that they become aware of to the Designated Point of Contact (DPOC).

**Funding & Patient Access**:

- In collaboration with the Market Access Managers, development and implementation of access tools, reimbursement and economic strategies
- Development of reimbursement solutions in collaboration with internal stakeholders to optimise patient access
- Developing fundamental concepts and strategies for ARMs and future models, based on business vision and in consultation with market access and commercial teams
- Developing, implementing and managing the project plan for Alternate Reimbursement Models and Health Technology Assessments.
- Driving cross-functional alignment and implementation across all business units.
- Establishing and cultivating cross-functional relationships. Working collaboratively with all internal/external partners and stakeholders.
- Ensuring assigned goals and objectives are met and that assigned projects and other work are completed on time, to high standards and within budget.
- Responsible for reporting adverse experiences or events (AEs), adverse device events (ADEs), product quality complaints (PQCs) and other reportable information, customer feedback (CF), alleged counterfeiting, diversion and tampering (CDT) that they become aware of to the Designated Point of Contact (DPOC).

**Key Attributes**
- Have a high degree of intellectual curiosity; superior organizational, preparation, and analytical skills and a strong work ethic.
- Comfortable working on multiple initiatives in a highly dynamic environment, as well as the ability to remain calm under pressure and/or in ambiguous situations is crucial.
- Maturity to be challenged regarding concepts and thinking from colleagues.
- Embraces diversity & inclusion - Open to different ideologies and thought processes.

**Education**
- Matric and relevant Tertiary Education

**Qualification and Experience**
- Clinical experience advantageous and/or funder experience advantageous.
- Min 1yr experience in Market Access and/or Pricing Role.
- Pharmaceutical product knowledge.
- Administrative ability.
- Analytical capability.
- The ability to build and maintain relationships at all levels.

**Skills**
- Strong administrative and reporting capabilities;
- Integrity;
- Excellent communication - verbal and written;
- Analytical skills;
- Project management;
- Work independently
- Strong interpersonal skills;
- Ability to empathize;
- Work under pressure;
- Customer management;
- Ability to implement strategies
- Ability to interact with internal/external customers
- Computer literacy
- Time management and planning

**Special Requirements**
- Intermediate to advanced excel proficiency

Our Human Health Division maintains a “patient first, profits later” ideology. The organization is comprised of sales, marketing, market access, digital analytics and commercial professionals who are passionate about their role in bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide.

**Who we are**

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and

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