Patient Access Partner

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The Position

Position Summary and Purpose

The Patient Access Partner is a strategic role responsible for driving and executing the integrated access, pricing, and policy strategy for an assigned Disease Area (DA) Ecosystem. This role translates national policy into tangible access and pricing decisions at the disease level, focusing on improving and accelerating access to innovation. As a key player in the integrated access strategy, the Partner identifies shared purpose and value, co-creates flexible pricing solutions with DA Squads, and implements them across the ecosystem to ensure better health outcomes for more patients faster.

Core Responsibilities and Key Accountabilities

1. Ecosystem & Disease Area Policy Strategy

• Strategic Alignment: Execute and develop Disease Area Policy activities that support the strategic outcomes of the Squad. This involves ensuring all access strategies are aligned with current and anticipated national legislative trends.

• Integrated Planning: Manage the end-to-end patient access process for assigned therapeutic areas, coordinating strategy from monitoring early-stage portfolios to achieving final reimbursement.

• System Shaping: Catalyze the ability to see broader trends in healthcare systems, bringing external insights into Roche to influence DA strategy and sharing Roche’s expertise with the external ecosystem.

• Pricing Strategy: Responsible for defining the Pricing Strategy (e.g., target price, discount caps, and risk-share structures) based on commercial ambition

2. Pricing, Negotiation, and Technical Execution

• Reimbursement Journey: Acts as the Strategic Project Lead for the reimbursement journey, responsible for the overall timeline, squad alignment, and final negotiation outcome.

• Strategic Negotiation: Serves as the Primary Point of Contact (PPOC) for strategic therapy area payer dialogue, pricing negotiations, and policy-level external meetings.

• Value Proposition: Accountable for translating the technical value proposition into a commercial narrative and negotiation strategy tailored to the specific payer or Disease Area Squad needs.

• External Relationship Management: Maintain and foster a relevant network with pricing and reimbursement decision-makers within the healthcare system to support favorable commercial conditions.

3. Cross-Functional Squad Partnership

• Core Squad Member: Act as a primary member of Disease Area Squads, connecting Market Access strategy, Policy, and Pricing directly to commercialization excellence and field execution.

• Evidence Generation: Responsible for identifying strategic evidence gaps required to support negotiation and commercial goals (e.g., 'We need to prove X to the payer').

• Enterprise Partnership: Work as a strategic bridge between high-level market access strategy and operational reality, partnering with Finance and Brand teams to recommend and shape national access strategies.

• Collaboration: Partner cross-functionally with Healthcare System Partners and Patient Journey Partners to leverage internal networks and pull in resources needed for the therapeutic area.

Skills, Knowledge, and Capabilities

• Strategic Agility: Ability to maintain focus on long-term strategy while successfully adapting to changing environmental and legislative conditions.

• System Thinking: Capability to think from an enterprise level to bring the best possible outcomes to the local health environment and the broader Roche global network.

• Impactful Communication: Skilled in articulating complex value propositions and consulting with diverse external and internal stakeholders.

• Agile Mindset: Desire and ability to work in an agile, self-managed way based on trust and continuous learning.

• VACC Leadership: Acts as a Visionary, Architect, Catalyst, and Coach to remove healthcare bottlenecks and empower teams.

Qualifications & Experience

• Education: University degree (Master’s degree ) in Business, Economy, Health Economics, Medicine, Pharmacy,  Life Sciences.

• Experience:

  • Minimum 5 years in Market/Patient  Access or Health Policy area (Hands-on experience in the Patient Access field with a good understanding of healthcare financing, reimbursement systems, and relevant compliance regulations) and

  • Minimum 7 years of experience in the area of Health Care in Slovakia 

• Digital Literacy: Ability to leverage digital means and tools for the benefit of all stakeholders.

Salary starts from 3699 EUR gross/month, final salary will depend on the level of skills and experience.

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.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.