Market Access Partner

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections,  where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

As a Market Access Partner, you are a strategic architect of patient access, securing the pathway for life-changing healthcare by navigating Australia's complex reimbursement systems. Your mission is to drive optimal commercial outcomes, ensuring that innovative medicines and health technologies are reimbursed with favorable clinical labels and within competitive timeframes. You lead lifecycle value management, ensuring the economic and community value of our treatments remains aligned with evolving real-world evidence.

What you will be working on:

As a Market Access Partner you will:

• Lead the development and execution of HTA submissions (PBAC/MSAC) to secure and maintain funding for Roche’s innovative portfolio.

• Design integrated Access Strategic Plans, aligning TGA regulatory timelines with reimbursement milestones to accelerate patient reach.

• Collaborate on advanced pharmaco-economic modeling and budget impact analyses to demonstrate the value of our therapies.

• Manage the ongoing value of our products, responding to complex strategic challenges and evolving data throughout the product lifecycle.

• Partner with Therapeutic Area Squads and Corporate and Public Affairs to influence the organisation’s long-term portfolio and access strategy.

• Pioneer and experiment with sophisticated, value-based access models and innovative funding frameworks.

• Participate in and influence Global Access teams, ensuring Australian requirements are integrated into global development plans.

• Act as a primary point of contact for external bodies such as the Department of Health, ensuring Roche’s value proposition is clearly understood.

• Lead and inspire internal chapters, including Regulatory and Corporate and Public Affairs, to deliver a cohesive access vision.

• Lead the generation and synthesis of evidence required to support robust HTA submissions and respond to post-submission reviews.

Who you are:

You are a natural collaborator, an outstanding communicator and influencer who is able to build strong relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders.

You have:

• An undergraduate degree in Economics, Pharmacy, Public Health, Mathematics, Statistics, or Life Sciences.

• In-depth experience within the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry, specifically focusing on clinical and economic evaluations.

• Proven track record of designing and executing successful market access strategies within the Australian healthcare system.

• Technical expertise in Health Technology Assessment (HTA), including economic evaluation and budget impact modeling.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a natural ability to inspire and influence both internal and external stakeholders.

• A high degree of strategic agility, allowing you to navigate ambiguity and pivot in a rapidly changing regulatory environment.

• A "can-do" and growth-oriented mindset, thriving in agile ways of working where experimentation and risk-taking are encouraged.

• The organisational capacity to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously while maintaining a sharp focus on achieving results.

This Sydney-based role involves national and limited  international travel as per the business needs, along with occasional evening and weekend work to meet global timelines. Full eligibility to live and work in Australia is required to be considered for this position.

At Roche, we are committed to delivering medical innovations that change lives. Join us as a Market Access Partner and help define the future of healthcare access in Australia.

Roche’s in-house team manages all recruitment. Roche Australia does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.

What we offer

Roche offers rewarding growth opportunities, a competitive remuneration package and a collaborative culture where people are united in purpose and will stretch you to be brave, speak up and think differently. Feel empowered to deliver meaningful outcomes, supported by accessible and inspiring leaders. 

Roche encourages a high-performance culture where you are empowered and trusted to make decisions. We strive for excellence and extraordinary results and take a genuine interest in our people and their well-being, and our patients.

Take pride in knowing you can make a difference to millions of patients worldwide in developing diagnostics and treatments for oncology, neuroscience, inflammation, immunology, ophthalmology, rare diseases, respiratory disease and diabetes.

We are committed to providing an inclusive, safe, secure and healthy workplace, and to minimise any such impacts to our employees, customers and the community. We welcome applications from all people and encourage you to advise of any individual circumstances that may require consideration.

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.