Market Access Project Manager

Nonacus Limited; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Nonacus Limited, based in Birmingham, seeks an experienced Market Access Project Manager to drive GALEAS Bladder adoption across NHS Trusts and primary care. You will develop local reimbursement strategies, build business cases and coordinate governance processes with NHS teams.

The role focuses on enabling funding and market access, leading evidence generation and grant applications, and working with stakeholders across ICBs, trusts and cancer alliances to expand patient access.

Qualifications

• 8+ years' experience within the healthcare sector or NHS/industry roles.
• Excellent knowledge of NHS structure, commissioning and ICB funding processes.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Experience with market access, commissioning or service development efforts in partnership with the NHS.

Responsibilities

• Co-develop and operationalise new models of care in primary and community settings.
• Secure ongoing funding for GALEAS Bladder at existing sites.
• Own local business cases for GALEAS Bladder including service benefit evidence and governance.
• Project manage primary care evidence generation projects.
• Identify and lead funding and grant applications.
• Manage delivery of grant funded projects against milestones and reporting.
• Work with market access and reimbursement teams to remove barriers for uptake.

Skills

NHS market access

Stakeholder management

Project management

Proposal writing

Education

Bachelor's degree in healthcare or life sciences

Job description

About Nonacus

We’re an employee-owned company based in Birmingham in our 11th year of helping patients find cancer simply, quickly and accurately.

We research, design and manufacture all products from our Quinton HQ, having supplied over 50 million test kits to dozens of NHS sites, every major UK private healthcare group and exporting to 38 countries worldwide.

We’re looking for talented and driven people to help us achieve our vision of everyone on earth having access to simple, fast and accurate non-invasive cancer testing.

Purpose Statement

The Market Access Project Manager will build on the momentum of GALEAS Bladder in implementation sites across the country. The role will convert GALEAS Bladder into routine NHS use in secondary care whilst generating momentum in primary and community care.

The role focuses on local market access and reimbursement, removing barriers to adoption and securing long term use of GALEAS Bladder.

The role has three key pillars:

1. Primary care development: build the GALEAS Bladder triage proposition into primary care and community settings and generate the evidence for community delivery models.
2. Local reimbursement leadership: secure and maintain local reimbursement pathways through business cases and advocacy within Trusts and ICB commissioning workstreams.
3. Identify and support funding applications or delivery of grant funded projects to bring GALEAS Bladder to more patients

This is an external facing role and the postholder works with ICBs, primary care networks, community diagnostic centres, cancer alliances, NHS England leads and consortium partners.

Key stakeholders will include (but not exclusively) urologists, ICB leads, Trust senior management, executive team, primary care leads and commissioners.

Key responsibilities

• Co-develop and operationalise new models of care – in primary and community care pathways
• Secure ongoing funding for existing sites using GALEAS Bladder
• Own local business cases for GALEAS Bladder including service benefit evidence, work in local regions to identify and guide through governance channels
• Project manage primary care evidence generation projects
• Identify and lead funding and grant applications
• Manage delivery of grant funded project against agreed milestones and reporting requirements
• In conjunction with the market access and reimbursement manager identify and remove local market access barriers for the uptake of GALEAS Bladder

Expected outcomes

• More than 12 NHS trusts adopting GALEAS Bladder during 2027
• Delivery of primary / community care models in partnership with NHS regions for spread nationally
• Delivery of evidence generation projects that can inform new models of care
• Additional revenue as a result of successful funding applications

Major Interfaces

• Chief Commercial Officer
• Clinical Services Sales team
• Clinical Laboratory Director
• Marketing

Person Specification

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Excellent knowledge of NHS structure, commissioning and ICB funding processes
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills
• 8+ years’ experience within the healthcare sector – either in the NHS or industry roles
• Market access, commissioning or service development work within or in partnership with the NHS
• Commercial awareness and proposal writing experience
• Ability to manage complex projects and programmes with sensitivity
• Familiarity with NHS cancer care delivery and performance standards

Company Values and Culture

Our core values are based on trust and being open and honest with our colleagues and customers. We act professionally in all matters to ensure we deliver a high-quality service that can be relied upon. Quality is at the heart of everything we do and all staff are dedicated and remain fully accountable for carrying out their roles and responsibilities to the highest possible standards and are passionate about the work that we do.