Innovative Value Strategy Manager

At AstraZeneca, we’re not afraid to do things differently. We’re building a new kind of organization to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering groundbreaking methods and bringing unexpected teams.together.

We pride ourselves on making sure that each decision we make, puts patient needs first This mentality means that our people have permission to take the more unusual path. If they can think of a better, smarter way in which we can change lives through science, we want to hear it.

AstraZeneca recognizes that many health-care systems face challenges managing rapidly increasing healthcare costs while trying to improve patient outcomes. For this reason, AZ is strengthening capabilities within the organization that can work with external stakeholders to develop innovative access solutions which can move the dialogue from price to value, while helping the sustainability of the health systems at national and regional levels. Astrazeneca is committed to develop Innovative Value Strategies to provide more flexibility in reimbursement and funding decisions and ensuring access to our innovative treatments.

**Responsibilities**:

- Monitor and assess the Spanish healthcare environment to identify trends and policy changes that may impact the pharma industry and/or company’s current and future pipeline: anticipating customer needs, opportunities, and risks, and develop proposals accordantly with Business strategy and market situation.
- Need to have comprehensive view of AZ products portfolio and has excellent understanding of the Health Care environment: National / Regional/ Hospital
- Will be a highly cross-functional role that will collaborate with internal stakeholders to design and implement Innovation Value Solutions at cross-portfolio and/or therapeutical area level. This individual will perform coordination, communications, and analytical work to execute AZ IVS.
- Elaborate business cases across portfolio at Regional and Hospital level and propose different solutions to enhance market access to AZ product portfolio: from budgeting impact estimations to specific IVS, focusing the solutions trying to move from price to value
- Work closely with the V&A Finance Lead, who is responsible for the calculation of the IVS impact on the product P&L as well as accruals and paybacks validation/approvals
- Work closely with Innovation & Digital Team, to develop/improve required tools in order to assure data accuracy and agility
- Contribute on the elaboration of a “Market Access Cataloge of Services” that help promoting services IVS
- Go beyond public health system, contributing on building a market access contracting strategies to our products in private health system.
- Work closely with the Tender Manger to find synergies between IVS and tender strategies as well as building common tools/reports to guanratee the accuracy and agility of the data output (in terms of sales evolutions, projects, )
- Have a basic knowledge of public tendering to help and/or back up the Tender Manager when needed

**Essential requirements**:

- Working knowledge of Local Healthcare enviroments
- Evidence of team working and personal accountability
- Experience managing complex projects
- Strategic thinking
- Commercial Acumen
- Familiarity with complex financial modelling
- Track record of managing and delivering strategy & submissions to market access groups
- Agility with data manipulation: advance in excel
- Proactive and willing to learn from different areas

**Desirable requirements**:

- Experience of developing strategic partnerships
- Understanding of financial flows
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