Manager - TA Access Early Assets-2

Biopharma Careers; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis India is seeking a senior analyst to deliver analytics and strategic decision support for early-stage asset access, including epidemiology, payer dynamics, HTA, and pricing benchmarks. You will translate market data into actionable insights and prepare executive-ready materials across the IV&A value chain.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, coaching of junior staff, and ensuring high-quality deliverables in a matrix environment for multiple therapeutic areas.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in a relevant field with graduate training in health economics or HEOR.
• Experience in PMA analytics, HTA landscapes, and value assessment for pharma products.
• Ability to work in a matrix environment and deliver high-quality materials.

Responsibilities

• Develop knowledge in V&A/HTA/PMA and deliver stakeholder-ready outputs.
• Create qualitative/quantitative deliverables per project standards and timelines.
• Coordinate with stakeholders on schedules and quality control of outputs.
• Support pricing, reimbursement, and access considerations for BD&L activities.

Skills

V&A analytics

PMA analytics

Stakeholder management

Education

Graduate degree in health economics or related

Tools

MS Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

To support in delivering analytics and strategic decision support for early-stage pipeline assets and therapeutic area access teams. The role will contribute to the development of forward-looking access strategies by translating epidemiology, payer dynamics, HTA requirements, pricing benchmarks, competitive intelligence, and real-world evidence analogs into actionable insights. Support the development of forward-looking access strategies for early pipeline assets and relevant analytics. The position will support early asset access strategy development, scenario modeling, pricing and reimbursement assumptions, and executive-ready deliverables across the IV&A value chain.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop optimal knowledge and experience in V&A / HTA / PMA
• Develop and maintain the qualitative and/or quantitative deliverables as per the stakeholder requirements in accordance with the agreed standard process and timelines, independently for assigned projects
• Liaise with stakeholders on project schedule/planning of deliverables
• Ensure that the new associates/junior colleagues deliver quality deliverables by providing guidance and performing QC/review
• Support early access analytics and strategy for pipeline (pre-TDP) assets, including market, access, pricing, and reimbursement hypotheses translating early asset data and market uncertainty into clear, actionable insights, decision-support materials, and access strategy frameworks
• Conduct payer and HTA landscape assessments, analog reviews, and benchmark analyses to identify access risks and opportunities across key markets.
• Support pricing, reimbursement, and access considerations to inform BD&L activities and target product profiles
• Help develop assumptions for forecasting, including epidemiology, patient flows, competition, and pricing and reimbursement scenarios
• Deliver ad-hoc and cross-functional requests and activities
• Support the development of additional guidance and training materials (i.e. checklists, QA processes etc.)
• Contribute to the continual improvement of the assigned deliverables and the guidance template
• Develop long-term, peer-level relationships with key clients
• Train, coach, mentor and ensure functional development of new associates/junior colleagues within V&A team
• Comply with and support group’s project management tool, standards and policies
• Maintains records for all assigned projects including archiving
• Maintains audit, SOP and training compliance

Essential Requirements:

• Attend all mandatory trainings
• Support V&A (especially PMA) deliverables meeting quality and timelines standards (as guided / defined by senior members)
• Timely delivery of good quality of assigned deliverables and tasks
• Contribution to decision-support frameworks and strategic recommendations
• Quality, clarity and actionability of early asset access insights
• Client satisfaction with quality of services provided
• Delivery of activities through independent work
• Ability to operate effectively in a matrix environment
• Ability to manage multiple projects across therapeutic areas and stakeholders
• Train, coach, and mentor new associate
• Support the enhancement of existing services / deliverables

Job Dimensions

• Number of associates: Direct 0
• Financial responsibility (budget, cost, sales etc.): Not applicable
• Impact on the organization: Essential contribution for improvement of overall effectiveness of the business

Desirable Requirements:

• Education (minimum): Undergraduate degree in a relevant scientific discipline plus graduate degree (Masters or PhD) in relevant discipline (including health economics, epidemiology, health services research, public health, or business management)
• Languages: Proficiency in ‘English’ is a pre-requisite; while knowledge of other in-scope country languages would be an advantage
• Experience: Pharmaceutical domain knowledge MS-Office skills (MS-Excel, MS-Word, and MS-Power-point) 6-8 years conducting PMA analytics, situation analysis, or health economic and outcomes research (HE&OR) for pharmaceutical products in pharma industry, contract research organization, or academic institute; or experience in a closely related discipline within the pharma industry (e.g. clinical research, statistics, epidemiology, pricing analytics) Ability to work, prioritize, and drive projects independently

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion / EEO paragraph:

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams’ 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, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

Benefits and Rewards:

Read our handbook to learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally: https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards