Value & Access and PA Head, Levant
About this opportunity
Associate Access Directors are dedicated to supporting co-developing innovative and winning market access strategies, optimizing the payer value proposition and access-relevant evidence packages for assets, in partnership with countries and International cross-functional teams.In this role you will partner with the regional director/executive director, develop and implement transformative access solutions serving strategic disease areas (DAs) within Neuroscience, with a focus on our priority geographic markets, major HTA archetypes and Budget Impact archetypes. The main purpose of the Associate Access Director is to:Shape Strategy• With International TA and support of the TA Access Directors, develop and deliver all aspects of access strategy and execution for compounds/brands across the R-D-C continuum. • Enable asset strategy to translate science into payer and HCS value propositions and solutions, securing access, affordability, and contribute to wide scale patient access and efficiencies at scale. Facilitate Cross Functional Collaboration• Represent access with internal partners and external stakeholders. Internally, support the execution of our vision, provide expert support throughout the Access community (International, Regions, Countries) and with key partners (CPS/International, Development, Biomedical Research, Operations, S&G, Regions and Countries). • Collaborate and partner with TAs, Medical Affairs, Development and Biomedical Research to enhance the value proposition, access strategy and access-relevant evidence packages. • With the commercial organization and Pricing team, (co-)create the international pricing strategy and guidance.• Create collaborative partnerships internally and externally to break down silos, partner across the value chain and shape the future of healthcare and markets.• Collaborate with S&G and Development to drive consistent and access-optimal approaches to product shaping, value propositions and HCS value creation.
Major Accountabilities:Maintain the Integrated Product Access strategy throughout the product lifecycle which clearly articulates the product strategy and differentiation most relevant to payers (e.g., well-defined target population, clinical endpoints, comparators, outcome measures, utility instruments, Health Economics data), patients, and HCS stakeholders worldwide.Support countries for their payer negotiations.Timely delivery of the materials in support of countriesEnsure Access input is reflected in TPPs, clinical programs (including IEPs), BD&L assessments, asset maximization and indication sequencingIdentify evidence, in addition to registration studies, required to meet the needs of medical experts and institutions involved in reimbursement & access decisions for key geographies.Collaborate with the HEOR & PCO team to ensure full integration of adequate HEOR/evidence deliverables in high quality cross-franchise strategy.Manage Access community and budgetsReporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Novartis products within 24 hours of receiptDistribution of marketing samples (where applicable)Key performance indicators: Reimbursement/listing status, price versus targets, time to reimbursement/accessRevenue, market availability/accessManagement of relevant local systems and processes to secure optimal patient access
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How this role compares
Computed from every other active Market Access role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 150 comparable Market Access roles across 30 biopharma companies.
Salary context
44 of 150 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)
Peers share this role's job function. This posting doesn't list a seniority level, so peers aren't narrowed by seniority either -- the range below may span more levels than usual.
Where these roles are based
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Seniority mix
121 of 150 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
43 of 150 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
Similar opportunities
The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.
Matched on job function only -- seniority, specialty, and location weren't confirmed as aligned.
Matched on job function only -- seniority, specialty, and location weren't confirmed as aligned.
Matched on job function only -- seniority, specialty, and location weren't confirmed as aligned.
Matched on job function only -- seniority, specialty, and location weren't confirmed as aligned.
Matched on job function only -- seniority, specialty, and location weren't confirmed as aligned.
Matched on job function only -- seniority, specialty, and location weren't confirmed as aligned.
How we calculate "similar"
No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.
Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.
0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.