Market Access Excellence Director

SimplyVision GmbH; Basel; On-site; CHF 80,000 - 102,000; Full time

Job summary

SimplyVision GmbH in Basel is seeking a Market Access Excellence Director on an initial 1-year contract, onsite in Basel. You will lead IV&A data management, analytics strategy, and governance to improve access performance across markets.

You will drive budgeting, book of work, data standards, KPI frameworks, and cross-functional collaboration to enable high-quality access outcomes in a global, matrix environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in value/access or operational excellence roles.
• 2+ years international or regional experience.
• Proven KPI framework development and dashboards.
• Strong data governance and budgeting experience.
• Ability to lead in a matrix, global environment.
• Excellent communication to influence diverse stakeholders.
• Balances strategy with end-to-end execution.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Strengthen IV&A governance and book of work; drive operational excellence.
• Support senior leadership with data-driven decision making and dashboards.
• Define and own access data standards and governance platforms.
• Partner with IT, analytics, markets to ensure reliable data flows.
• Design and maintain enterprise access KPI framework.
• Lead annual budgeting for IV&A and track spend vs outcomes.
• Foster accountability and continuous improvement with cross-functional partners.
• Operate effectively in a matrix organization.
• Ensure ethics, risks, compliance as per policies.

Skills

KPI frameworks

Access governance

Dashboards

Budget management

Matrix organization

Stakeholder influence

Strategic execution

Change leadership

Education

MBA

PhD

M.D.

RPh

Tools

SharePoint

Job description

For our client based in Basel (CH) we’re urgently looking for a Market Access Excellence Director with following details:

• Duration: asap - 31.10.27 (1 year contract, extension possible)
• Location: Basel, onsite
• Pay rate range (given by client): 58-74 chf/h gross. Typical monthly salary, e.g. 65chf*160h = 10.400 chf gross

Background

The Access Excellence Director is part of Access excellence organization responsible for enabling access performance, raising the bar for how access is planned, executed and measured. Leads IV&A data management, analytics strategy, performance management enablers in partnership with other V&A teams, regions, priority countries and other cross-functional teams as applicable.

The role is responsible for driving operational excellence & continuous improvement in execution across International & key markets. Access Excellence director serves as single point of contact for annual budget management, process excellence, defining book of work IV&A governance processes, SoPs & knowledge management platforms

This role ensures high data integrity, disciplined KPI management, systematic best practice sharing, effective budget stewardship, enabling predictable, high quality access outcomes.

Tasks & Responsibilities

• Monitor and strengthen IV&A governance processes, book of work for IV&A pillars and decision support systems. Accountable for driving operational excellence, building and running a robust access performance & governance process.
• Support IV&A senior leadership to drive data driven decision making using deliverables defined as per IV&A book of work, access KPIs and dashboards.
• Define and own access data standards, definitions & quality control measures aligned with Enterprise data management guidelines. Ownerships of IV&A sharepoints and other knowledge management platforms
• Partner with IT, analytics and markets to enable reliable data flows into performance management systems and enable adoption across countries. Act as single point of accountability for “one source of access data”
• Design and maintain an enterprise access KPI framework, book of work across pre-launch, launch, post-launch & LoE. Embed KPI led decision making into access leadership forums & governance process
• Lead annual budgeting process for IV&A, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. Track spend vs outcomes, analytics across IV&A pillars e.g. HEOR, Pricing, TA Access, Access Excellence. Support business cases and investment decisions, trade offs with respect to budgets.
• Build a strong culture of accountability, learning and continuous improvement in collaboration with cross functional partners (HEOR, Pricing, TA Access, Access Excellence, Finance etc)
• Effectively work in matrix organization: balancing cross-functional perspectives and alignment with business priorities against available resources.
• Ensure appropriate Ethics, Risks, compliance procedures are followed as per company policies and procedures.

Must Haves

• 8+ years of experience in value & access roles and / or Operational excellence roles / Access Operations roles
• 2+ years International or regional experience in operational excellence, access roles
• Proven experience building KPI frameworks, access governance process, dashboards
• Strong understanding of access data & systems and governance models
• Experience managing budgets
• High comfort operating in matrixed, global environments
• Demonstrates strong communication skills and can influence across a range of diverse stakeholders to drive change
• Balances strategy and operational excellence to ensure end to end execution of the strategy
• Effectively balances the needs of various stakeholders and defines priorities based on highest impact for business and patients
• Strong solution-orientation and enterprise mindset
• Competitive and entrepreneurial mindset with proven track record of fostering innovation

Nice to haves

• 7+ years of experience in value & access roles with experience in Access operations
• MBA, Ph.D., M.D. or RPh
• 5+ years International markets or regional experience