Viatris

Mylan IRE Healthcare Limited

At VIATRIS, we see healthcare not as it is but as it should be. We act courageously and are uniquely positioned to be a source of stability in a world of evolving healthcare needs.

Viatris empowers people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life.

We do so via: 

Access – Providing high quality trusted medicines regardless of geography or circumstance;

Leadership – Advancing sustainable operations and innovative solutions to improve patient health; and 

Partnership – Leveraging our collective expertise to connect people to products and services. 

Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach and better access to treatment.

For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world.

The Role & What You Will Be Doing

The role´s purpose is to support the Viatris commercial organization in Ireland, by developing and executing a strategy focused in partnering with key stakeholders and key decision makers, such as Government stakeholders, payors and private payors, Hospital stakeholders, Trade Associations, Patient Associations, to raise awareness about the company, optimize the future strategy of the company and ensure access to Viatris medicines within the existing portfolio as well as the pipeline.

The Market Access Director will report directly to the Country Manager and will be a key contributor of the Leadership Team.

Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference and here’s how the Market Access Director role will make an impact:

• Support the Country Manager and the Commercial Business to identify new opportunities for the business, preparing the market conditions for the launch of new products and negotiating access to Viatris medicines in Ireland.
• Additionally, this role also includes execution of HTA submissions, including adaptation of Regional materials to local needs and presentation to local stakeholders in collaboration with other internal stakeholders.
• This function will support new product launches by developing product-specific Market Access strategies and materials, generation of economic value data based on clinical and health economic evidence and outcomes research.
• The Head of Market Access will be responsible to define and communicate value to different stakeholders and determine their approaches to pricing, contracting, reimbursement, access, fulfillment, and patient affordability. In addition to bringing market access insights earlier into launch management process, establishing a pricing and contracting strategy as well as preparing if it´s required to preparing a Health Technology Assessment including Value Dossier to show the impact and the benefit of the different treatment for the patients.
• Ensure alignment and cross-functional coordination with overall brand and key generic products strategy and build in flexibility to adapt to changes affecting customers, competition, and context (policy, economic, societal, technological), and make conscious trade-offs in pursuit of sustainable, profitable market access.
• Work closely with European Market Access Team/Network to ensure input into the Regional and Global strategies to ensure Irish payer requirements are adequately considered.
• Development and maintenance of up-to-date relevant knowledge by advisory boards, conferences, analysis, internal and external engagements as well as tracking of local P&R developments.

About Your Skills & Experience

For this role, we’re looking for a candidate who has an effective combination of the following qualifications, skills and experiences:

• Master’s degree in health economics/life science/medicine or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in the Irish Pharmaceutical market environment (pharmaceutical industry or a consultancy position) with respective responsibilities in the current job.
• Thorough knowledge and understanding of the Irish Healthcare systems and HTA processes
• Hands-on experience leading P&R submissions. Experience of delivering P&R strategies and materials for NCE and/or value-added medicines
• Ability to understand and use health economic models and evidence.
• Knowledge of Dermatology, Gastro-intestinal, ophthalmology therapeutic areas is a plus and specialty Hospital.

Other qualifications:

• Experience and willingness of working in a dynamic, lean environment.
• Proven ability to understand and clearly communicate medical, scientific, legal, and economic topics.
• Strong communication, project management, organizational and planning skills. Ability to synthesize, interpret and translate data into compelling and clear commercial strategies and plans.
• Ability to prioritize, work under pressure, strong initiative, strategic thinking, and ability to manage complex business situations.
• Self-motivational with ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
• Reliable and committed personality with a high integrity to deal with confidential information.
• Fluent in English (proficient), other languages are an advantage.
• Travel within EU up to 30% as required.

At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Benefits at Viatris

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. Some of our benefits include the following on top of a competitive salary:

• Excellent career progression opportunities
• Work-life balance initiatives
• Bonus scheme
• Health insurance
• Pension

Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris

At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare not as it is, but as it should be. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity and inclusion means to us, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion

Sustainability at Viatris

Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. 

Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.