Head, Global Market Access and Pricing, ViiV

GSK; North East; Hybrid; GBP 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

ViiV Healthcare is seeking a leadership role to head Global Market Access and Pricing. You will design and execute global access strategies, shape payer value propositions, and guide pricing for current and future HIV medicines.

You will collaborate with R&D, Medical, and regional teams to embed payer insights early, execute launch readiness, and manage portfolio value while protecting long-term value. This role is hybrid and London-UK based.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in science, health economics, economics or business as a minimum.
• Experience in market access, pricing, HEOR, reimbursement and policy in pharma/healthcare.
• Experience developing global/regional pricing and access strategies, incl. US payer systems.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects and presenting to senior stakeholders.
• Experience generating payer insights, health economic evidence and launch plans.
• Experience delivering pricing and access objectives in complex global environments.

Responsibilities

• Design global product and portfolio pricing and access strategies.
• Lead development of payer value propositions and pricing strategies for launches and lifecycle assets.
• Partner with R&D, Medical, Finance and regional teams to integrate payer needs.
• Ensure payer insights are reflected in strategy, forecasting, and launch plans.
• Support regional pricing, access strategy localization and launch risk management.
• Optimize global-to-local workflows with governance and performance metrics.
• Deliver measurable impact of pricing and access on outcomes.

Skills

Data to Insights

Digital Fluency

Global Pricing

Health Economics

Health Outcomes

Market Access

Market Access Strategies

Matrix Leadership

Payer Evidence

Pricing Strategies

Reimbursement

Scientific Literacy

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Health Economics, Economics or Business

Job description

Head, Global Market Access and Pricing, ViiV Healthcare

Why ViiV

ViiV Healthcare is the only company 100% focused on HIV. Our purpose is to get ahead of HIV together, our ambition is to help end the HIV and AIDS epidemic, and our mission is to leave no person living with HIV behind.

Role Purpose:

This role offers you the opportunity to lead global market access and pricing strategy for some of the most transformative medicines in HIV. You will help redefine payer, clinician, and patient perceptions of long-acting therapies, shape the future market environment, and ensure access to groundbreaking innovations to people living with and at risk of HIV across the globe.

Lead the Global Market Access and Pricing function for ViiV Healthcare, building access and pricing strategies for the current and future portfolio. Working with cross-functional partners, the role ensures payer, HTA and pricing requirements are embedded early in asset strategy, target product profiles, Brand strategy, Integrated Evidence Plans, development decisions, value communication and launch readiness, enabling broad and timely access for people living with HIV and people who could benefit from prevention while protecting long-term portfolio value.

As a key commercial leader within ViiV and a member of the Global Commercial Strategy Leadership Team, the role provides an enterprise leadership opportunity.

Key Responsibilities:

Portfolio access and value strategy & execution

• Design global product and portfolio pricing and access strategies that support access while delivering long-term value for ViiV Healthcare.
• Lead development of differentiated payer value propositions, value communication tools, pricing strategies and access plans for launch, pipeline and lifecycle assets.
• Partner with R&D, Commercial, Medical/Health Outcomes, RWE, Government Affairs, Policy, Finance and Regional/Local teams to secure early payer insights and needs are into asset strategy and development decisions.
• Ensure Payer insights and needs are represented in strategy development, forecasting, launch & indication sequencing, integrated evidence generation plans, business planning, and launch excellence processes.
• Support Region and key LOCs with pricing & access strategy localization, launch preparation and launch risk mitigation.
• Optimise global-to-local ways of working through best-practice sharing, performance metrics, clear accountabilities and integration with pricing and HTA trends.
• Execute plans effectively through Region and LOC plans, focusing on excellent operationalisation and implementation of strategy. Ensure a clear focus on outcomes and behaviour change, not activity.
• Deliver measurable positive impact of pricing and access strategies on product and portfolio outcomes.

External environment

• Increase payer, HTA and policymaker receptivity to the value of HIV innovation
• Monitor payer, HTA, policy, pricing and competitor trends globally, and distil implications with scenario planning and recommendations as appropriate.

Pricing governance and value preservation

• Chair and evolve the global Price Governance framework, overseeing price setting, price maintenance and alignment to global access and pricing strategy.
• Document, monitor and assess the effectiveness, risk and financial exposure of pricing and access decisions, escalating insights for proactive management as required.

Leadership, talent and capability

• Lead the Global Market Access and Pricing team
• Attract, recruit, onboard, retain and develop diverse talent and expertise, using clear objectives, development plans and coaching for each team member.
• Enhance performance culture, challenger mindset, decision-making courage and accountability across the global market access function.
• Build organisational capability to support pricing and market access excellence.
• Foster an inclusive, resilient and ambitious culture that supports team confidence, gravitas, impact and development.

Digital, data & operational excellence

• Leverage analytics, knowledge management, digital and AI-enabled capabilities to enhance the impact, quality, consistency and efficiency of market access deliverables.
• Identify opportunities to simplify ways of working, scale high-quality payer materials and strengthen evidence synthesis and insight generation.
• Allocate resources across priority workstreams, balancing capacity, capability, risk and future strategic need.

Why You!

We will love your high accountability for impact performance, your ambition for patients and strategic curiosity, and your collaboration and influence abilities. Your passion for our mission and purpose of getting ahead of HIV together will enthuse us! How you work is as important as what you deliver.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Health Economics, Economics or Business
• Experience in Market Access, Pricing, Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR), Reimbursement, Policy, Commercial Strategy, or related disciplines within multinational pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or healthcare organizations.
• Experience developing and implementing global or regional pricing and access strategies, with working knowledge of US payer and market access systems.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects and matrix teams across multiple functions and geographies, and presenting recommendations to senior stakeholders to support business decision-making.
• Experience generating payer insights and developing pricing and market access strategies, reimbursement submissions, health economic evidence packages, real-world evidence (RWE) studies, value dossiers, access forecasts, and launch plans.
• Experience delivering pricing, reimbursement, market access, or commercial objectives in complex global environments involving multiple stakeholders, markets, and competing priorities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to lead an inter-company matrix of senior leaders with strong opinion (GSK, Shionogi, Janssen)
• Proven ability to effectively engage executive management in high stakes decisions
• Excellent communication (written & verbal) with stakeholders
• Ability to translate operational challenges into structure plans while ensuring cross-discipline input and support
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and balance responsibilities
• Experience conducting and analysing market research & managing consultancies

Working pattern
This role is hybrid (2/3 days a week), and can only be based at our London HQ in the UK, or our US Durham HQ. There is no flexibility on location and relocation support can be provided.

Closing Date: 11th October 2026

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Skills

Data to Insights, Digital Fluency, Global Pricing, Health Economics, Health Outcomes, Market Access, Market Access Strategies, Matrix Leadership, Payer Evidence, Pricing Strategies, Reimbursement, Scientific Literacy

Why Us?

At ViiV Healthcare, we will not rest until we leave no person living with HIV behind. Until the 40 million people living with HIV is down to zero, we will continue searching for new ways to limit the impact of HIV.

ViiV is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.

Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, ViiV may be required to capture and report expenses ViiV incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure ViiV’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. For more information, please visit the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/