Market Access Manager (m/f/d) Pharma Lifecycle

1165 MSD Sharp & Dohme GmbH; München; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangements

Job summary

MSD in Munich seeks a Market Access Manager (m/f/d) for Pharma Lifecycle to help shape access strategies and timing for launches and portfolio extensions. You will participate in GBA consultations, price negotiations and cross-functional planning with Regulatory, Pricing and Medical teams.

Responsibilities include developing product-specific access plans, forecasting with pricing, budget monitoring, and aligning with national stakeholders to ensure market access success.

Qualifications

• Experience in the pharmaceutical industry in Market Access
• Experience in GBA consultations, oral hearings and price negotiations
• Very good knowledge of national healthcare structures and legal frameworks (AMNOG, EU-HTA, GBA)
• Ideally experience in cardiometabolic and/or pulmonary therapeutic areas
• Emotional intelligence, strategic planning, ownership & accountability and decision making are key for this role
• Excellent communication skills, enjoyment of negotiations and negotiation techniques
• Strong analytical skills
• High level of teamwork abilities
• Solution-oriented thinking
• High level of self-reflection
• Fluent in German and in English

Responsibilities

• Develop a product specific access strategy, including label wording, launch sequencing and potential mitigations
• Prepare forecast together with pricing team
• Prepare product specific strategy and actively participate in oral GBA hearing
• Close collaboration with national stakeholders and execution of EIFs
• Strategic planning and participation in price negotiations
• Monitoring of the health policy environment and legal framework conditions (AMNOG, IQWiG, EU-HTA), as well as their assessment for current launch products, ensuring that the product specific access strategy fits the overall product strategy
• Responsible for budget planning and monitoring
• Close collaboration with cross-functional teams (New Products/BU, Medical, Regulatory, Pricing, Policy) and regional/global teams (Market Access, Medical)

Skills

Agile PM

Analytical Thinking

BI

Data Analysis

Regulatory Compliance

Strategic Thinking

Team Leadership

Education

Degree in Medicine, Pharmacy, Natural Sciences, Health Economics, or Business Administration

Job description

Job Description As a Market Access Manager (m/f/d) Pharma Lifecycle, you are co-responsible for prioritization of products, identifying interactions between different products and development of potential mitigation strategies. The conceptual planning and active participation in GBA consultations, oral hearings and in price negotiations are also part of this role. In this way, the Market Access Manager Pharma Lifecycle significantly contributes to a successful launch, price and overall access strategy of existing and new products, and thus to the success of the company.

Your Main Responsibilities:

• Develop a product specific access strategy, including label wording, launch sequencing and potential mitigations
• Prepare forecast together with pricing team
• Prepare product specific strategy and actively participate in oral GBA hearing
• Close collaboration with national stakeholders and execution of EIFs
• Strategic planning and participation in price negotiations
• Monitoring of the health policy environment and legal framework conditions (AMNOG, IQWiG, EU-HTA), as well as their assessment for current launch products, ensuring that the product specific access strategy fits the overall product strategy
• Responsible for budget planning and monitoring
• Close collaboration with cross-functional teams (New Products/BU, Medical, Regulatory, Pricing, Policy) and regional/global teams (Market Access, Medical)

Please note, the list of tasks & responsibilities is exemplary and not exhaustive. The assignment of other or additional tasks is therefore not excluded.

What you will bring:

• Degree in Medicine, Pharmacy, Natural Sciences, Health Economics, or Business Administration
• Experience in the pharmaceutical industry in the areas of Market Access, ideally
• Experience in GBA consultations, oral hearings and price negotiations
• Very good knowledge of national healthcare structures and legal frameworks (AMNOG, EU-HTA, GBA)
• Ideally experience in cardiometabolic and/or pulmonary therapeutic areas
• Emotional intelligence, strategic planning, ownership & accountability and decision making are key for this role
• Excellent communication skills, enjoyment of negotiations and negotiation techniques
• Strong analytical skills
• High level of teamwork abilities
• Solution-oriented thinking
• High level of self-reflection
• Fluent in German and in English
• People with severe disabilities and their equivalents will be given preference if they are equally qualified.

Required Skills:

• Agile Project Management, Analytical Problem Solving, Analytical Thinking, Business Intelligence (BI), Data Analysis, Environmental Scanning, Feasibility Studies, Financial Acumen, Headcount Forecasting, Innovation, Project Management, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Strategic Thinking, Team Leadership

Additional information:

• Employee Status: Regular
• Relocation: No relocation
• VISA Sponsorship: No
• Travel Requirements: No Travel Required
• Flexible Work Arrangements: Hybrid
• Shift: Not Indicated
• Valid Driving License: No
• Hazardous Material(s): N/A
• Job Posting End Date: 11/19/2026

Our company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where we have codified our legacy for over a century. Our success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.