Access Contracting Manager (Private Hospital Partnerships)

Novartis; Mumbai; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis AG is seeking a strategic Partnerships & Contracting lead to build private hospital collaborations, design compliant contracting, and monitor performance across portfolios. The role focuses on improving patient access, accelerating therapy adoption, and delivering measurable portfolio impact through scalable models.

You will work with hospital leadership, procurement, pharmacy, finance, and clinical teams to align access objectives with portfolio priorities and ensure governance across

Qualifications

• Experience: 5–8 years in pharma, healthcare, market access, institutional business, partnerships, or consulting.
• Private hospital experience with hospital chains, procurement, pharmacy operations, or institutional decision‑making (preferred).
• Contracting skills: experience in negotiations, contracting, business cases, and partnership execution.
• Commercial acumen: connect patient access, portfolio priorities, affordability, and business outcomes.
• Execution capability: cross‑functional collaboration, analytical skills, stakeholder management, and compliance mindset.

Responsibilities

• Develop relationships with key private hospital stakeholders across leadership, procurement, pharmacy, finance, and clinical teams.
• Identify access opportunities aligned to portfolio priorities and patient needs.
• Co‑create hospital partnership plans addressing access barriers and portfolio growth.
• Design and execute compliant contracting models tailored to hospital needs and priorities.
• Develop internal business cases with patient impact, commercial rationale, financial assumptions, and key risks.
• Ensure rollout of contracts with clear timelines, ownership, and performance milestones.
• Monitor contract execution and KPIs; conduct periodic reviews with partners and internal teams.
• Coordinate approvals, planning, governance, and performance tracking across functions.
• Support field teams with account planning, negotiation prep, and partnership execution.
• Gather market insights on hospital procurement, access barriers, and private healthcare trends.
• Identify scalable partnership models across hospital chains, cities, and patient segments.
• Ensure all partnerships follow Novartis policies and local regulations; maintain audit readiness.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Finance

Health Economics

HTA

Key Account Management

Market Access

Process Management

Product Positioning

Public Affairs

Real World Evidence

Value Propositions

Waterfall Model

Healthcare Sector Understanding

Job description

Job Description Summary

Build compliant partnerships with leading private hospitals and hospital chains to improve patient access, accelerate therapy adoption, and deliver measurable portfolio impact through scalable access and contracting models.

Job Description

Onboarding Location-Mumbai, Work Location- Delhi/Bangalore

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Hospital Partnerships

• Develop relationships with key private hospital stakeholders, including leadership, procurement, pharmacy, finance, and clinical teams.
• Identify access opportunities aligned to portfolio priorities and patient needs.
• Co-create hospital partnership plans that address access barriers and support portfolio growth.

2. Contracting Strategy & Execution

• Design and execute compliant contracting models tailored to hospital needs and business priorities.
• Develop internal business cases covering patient impact, commercial rationale, financial assumptions, and key risks.
• Ensure effective roll-out of approved contracts with clear timelines, ownership, and performance milestones.

3. Partnership Governance & Performance Tracking

• Monitor contract execution and performance against agreed KPIs.
• Conduct periodic reviews with hospital partners and internal teams to assess impact and resolve gaps.
• Optimize active partnerships for improved access, utilization, governance, and renewals.

4. Cross-Functional Alignment

• Partner with commercial, medical, value & access, finance, legal, compliance, supply chain, and sales teams to enable execution.
• Coordinate approvals, implementation planning, governance, and performance tracking across functions.
• Support field teams with account planning, negotiation preparation, and partnership execution.

5. Insights & Market Intelligence

• Gather insights on hospital procurement, access barriers, competitor models, and private healthcare trends.
• Feed insights into access strategy, portfolio planning, launch readiness, and hospital segmentation.
• Identify scalable partnership models across hospital chains, cities, and priority patient segments.

6. Compliance, Governance & Risk Management

• Ensure all partnerships and contracts follow Novartis policies, local regulations, and approval processes.
• Work with legal, finance, compliance, and procurement to maintain transparent documentation and audit readiness.
• Identify key risks in partnership models and recommend mitigation actions.

Essential Requirements:

• Experience: 5–8 years in pharma, healthcare, market access, institutional business, key account management, partnerships, or consulting.
• Private Hospital Experience: Experience in working with private hospitals (preferred), hospital chains, procurement, pharmacy operations, and institutional decision-making.
• Contracting skills: Experience in negotiations, contracting, business cases, and partnership execution.
• Commercial acumen: Ability to connect patient access, portfolio priorities, affordability, and business outcomes.
• Execution capability: Strong cross-functional collaboration, analytical skills, stakeholder management, and compliance mindset.

Desirable Requirements:

• Priority hospital partnerships activated and scaled.
• Improved eligible patient access across key institutions.
• Contract performance versus agreed KPIs.
• Timely, compliant execution and governance of contracts.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion / EEO paragraph:

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverseteams’representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Why Novartis:

Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating,supportingand inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together?

Benefits and Rewards:

Read our handbook to learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally:

• Strong cross-functional execution and stakeholder satisfaction.

Skills Desired

Agility (Inactive), Analytical Skill (Inactive), Analytical Thinking, Computer Networking, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Customer-Centric Mindset (Inactive), Finance, Healthcare Sector Understanding (Inactive), Health Economics, Health Technology Assessment (HTA), Key Account Management, Market Access, Process Management, Product Positioning, Public Affairs, Real World Evidence (RWE), Value Propositions, Waterfall Model