Global Pricing Implementation and Analytics Lead

At Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease, we are innovators, leaders, and collaborators. At the heart of everything we do is an intense desire to pursue the toughest challenges and truly change the world for people living with rare and devastating diseases.

At Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease, people living with rare and devastating diseases are our Guiding Star. We are driven to continuously innovate and create meaningful value in all we do to help patients and families fully live their best lives. We value the uniqueness and diversity of our employees and recognize that nurturing the diverse perspectives and strengths of our people translate into innovation breakthroughs for patients.

This is what you will do:

Join a highly valued, strategic team that is fundamental in realizing the potential of our life-changing medicines. It’s through our work that AstraZeneca can ensure the right access is provided to our transformative medicines.

Alexion AstraZeneca’s Rare Disease Global Value Access and Pricing (GVAP) team is seeking a qualified individual to be part of a dynamic and growing team with responsibility for pricing implementation and governance.

The purpose of this role is to enhance the competitive advantage and performance of Alexion AstraZeneca's Rare Disease brands by optimizing pricing strategies and supporting reimbursement decisions at both local and global levels. This position will lead pricing governance for Alexion portfolio, analytics and management reporting.

The Global Pricing Implementation and Analytics Lead will work in close collaboration with the GVAP TA teams and Head of GVAP.

You will be responsible for:

Pricing policy and governance

• Lead and coordinate rare diseases pricing governance and processes

• Ensure adherence to the established pricing policy and governance processes to effectively implement pricing strategies. Monitor compliance with pricing frameworks and maintain a robust internal control environment over processes and data.

• Engage with markets pro-actively to support the optimal implementation of pricing policies and provide support in local pricing capability development

• Provide country specific input to Global pricing policies for new product launches

• Support internal audits process

Pricing Analysis & Reporting

Responsible for coordinating content of quarterly reporting of pricing performance (incl business cases) for senior management. Lead and coordinate content update of related pricing performance report and executive dashboard

Pricing analysis

• Manage the operational pricing and reimbursement implementation

• Perform ad-hoc analysis to evaluate the pricing implications of external events and pricing environment policy changes

• Perform regular competition pricing analysis across Therapeutic areas

• Perform across countries comparative pricing analysis (ALXN in line products and competition) to support senior management in their global RD pricing strategy updates

• Liaise with Finance team to reconcile the actual realized prices in finance system versus the approved prices in PRICE

• Provide forward looking analysis and insights into the future of price assumptions for the ALXN Rare diseases product portfolio (in line and pipeline) through gross price modelling analysis,

• Lead and support execution of pricing strategies in collaboration with GVAP complement and Metabolic teams team and country pricing teams

• Support the development of launch sequence, target prices and negotiation strategies to optimize pricing and reimbursement conditions in the local markets and across complement and Metabolic therapeutic areas the

• Monitor realized impact of the endorsed pricing actions to modify future decision making

You will need to have:

• Relevant Graduate degree eg. PharmD, biomedical science, business, or economics.

• Extensive experience in the pharmaceutical industry in business related roles

• 5-10 years of pricing and reimbursement experience

• Understanding of pricing, legal, regulatory and reimbursement issues across key markets and their impact

• Ability to handle complex problem solving (involving many decision-makers and multiple, creative solutions) including impact of environment regulation changes on pricing policy

• Ability to communicate complex access and pricing challenges simply and clearly across business stakeholders

We would prefer for you to have:

• Experience in a pricing / market access function locally or regionally

• Understanding of pricing and reimbursement processes in major markets

• Strong analytical skills

• Attention to details

• Negotiating experience with payers

• Excellence and precision in communication: credible and persuasive