Job Description

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Specialist, Market Access to support reimbursement, pricing, and access activities across Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Montenegro. In this role, you will lead the preparation and submission of market access files, support pricing strategy and negotiations, and contribute to the successful launch and lifecycle management of our portfolio, with full pricing responsibility for the Oncology portfolio in the three markets.

This is a strategic and cross-functional role requiring strong analytical capability, stakeholder management, and deep understanding of local healthcare and reimbursement environments.

Key Responsibilities:

Reimbursement and Access Submissions

• Lead and coordinate the preparation, compilation, and submission of reimbursement and access dossiers for products across Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Montenegro, ensuring compliance with local requirements and internal standards.
• Ensure all submission packages are complete, accurate, strategically positioned, and submitted within agreed timelines.
• Coordinate cross-functional input for submissions, including medical, epidemiological, pharmacoeconomic, pricing, regulatory, and commercial components.
• Prepare and adapt value dossiers, briefing materials, and submission documents for local authorities and expert bodies.
• Monitor the progress of submitted files and support responses to follow-up questions, clarification requests, and requests for additional data from authorities.
• Maintain accurate archives and tracking of submitted files, decisions, timelines, and supporting rationale.

Market Access Materials and Strategic Positioning

• Lead the creation and regular update of MYMI and other key internal market access materials to ensure robust and consistent strategic positioning of products.
• Ensure MYMI content reflects the local access environment, payer expectations, competitive dynamics, and portfolio priorities across the three countries.
• Collaborate with global, regional, and local stakeholders to align brand strategy, pricing assumptions, evidence generation plans, and reimbursement goals.
• Develop additional access-supporting materials, including value stories, negotiation decks, product positioning summaries, and stakeholder-specific materials as needed.

Negotiations and Stakeholder Engagement

• Prepare financial and access offers in line with internal governance, market access strategy, and local payer expectations.
• Actively participate in negotiations with relevant healthcare authorities and institutions, supporting the achievement of optimal reimbursement and access outcomes.
• Build and maintain effective professional relationships with key external stakeholders involved in reimbursement and access decision-making.
• Work closely with scientific leaders from REC and CDC to support scientific alignment, understanding of clinical value, and appropriate positioning of company products within local treatment pathways and access frameworks.
• Support preparation of meeting materials, negotiation arguments, response documents, and follow-up actions related to payer and expert discussions.

Pricing Responsibility

• Hold full pricing responsibility for the Oncology portfolio in Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Montenegro.
• Lead pricing analyses, pricing proposals, and internal approval processes in accordance with global pricing policies and local legal frameworks.
• Prepare and submit pricing files and documentation required by local authorities for oncology products.
• Assess pricing implications of external reference pricing, comparator movements, reimbursement conditions, and market events, and provide recommendations to internal stakeholders.
• Support pricing strategy for the full portfolio, ensuring consistency between pricing, reimbursement, and business priorities.

Tender and Portfolio Support

• Support the development and execution of tender strategies across the full portfolio in collaboration with commercial, access, and leadership teams.
• Provide market access and pricing input into tender decisions, discounting approaches, offer construction, and account-specific access considerations.
• Contribute to portfolio prioritization by assessing feasibility, access barriers, timing, payer dynamics, and resource requirements across products and markets.
• Partner with relevant colleagues to ensure that tender, pricing, reimbursement, and contracting activities are aligned and mutually supportive.

Cross-Functional and Strategic Support

• Work in close partnership with Medical, Commercial, Finance, Policy, Regulatory, and Global/Regional Access teams to ensure integrated execution of market access priorities.
• Provide strategic input into portfolio planning, launch preparation, evidence needs, timeline development, and risk assessment.
• Track relevant policy, reimbursement, pricing, and committee developments in Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Montenegro, and translate them into business implications and recommended actions.
• Support management in preparing updates, strategic reviews, and decision-making materials related to market access opportunities and challenges.

Qualifications:

• University degree in Medicine, Pharmacy, Economics, or a related field.
• Relevant experience in Market Access, Pricing, Reimbursement, Health Economics, Tendering, or External Affairs within the pharmaceutical industry.
• Strong understanding of the healthcare systems, reimbursement pathways, and pricing environment in Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Montenegro.
• Experience preparing reimbursement/access files, working with healthcare authorities, and supporting negotiation processes.
• Experience in pricing strategy and pricing approvals.
• Strong understanding of pharmaceutical legislation, reimbursement frameworks, payer environment, and market access requirements.
• Ability to work effectively with scientific experts, payers, and cross-functional internal teams.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and project management skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Fluent in English and Serbian.
• Strong PC skills; advanced knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint, and experience working with structured submission documents is an advantage.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution across multiple markets and priorities.
• Oncology experience is a strong advantage.

What We Offer:

• An opportunity to shape market access strategy across multiple countries.
• A highly collaborative, cross-functional environment.
• Exposure to strategic pricing, reimbursement, and tender activities.
• The chance to contribute to improved patient access to innovative therapies.

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