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Sandoz Iberia; Porto Salvo; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandoz Iberia seeks a Regional Access Manager to lead the market access strategy for Portugal, aligning pricing, reimbursement, and access initiatives with INFARMED and SPMS to ensure sustainable patient access.

You will coordinate cross-functional teams across Marketing, Medical, Regulatory and Sales to shape national access policies, support product launches, and translate clinical value into payer-focused messages.

Qualifications

• University education in a related field.
• Deep knowledge of the Portuguese healthcare landscape and direct relationships with authorities, regulators, hospitals.
• Sound experience designing and implementing successful market access strategies.
• Native Portuguese and fluent English are required.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Pricing, Reimbursement and Access Strategy.
• Design and implement the national pricing, reimbursement, and access strategy.
• Lead the preparation of reimbursement dossiers and negotiations with health authorities.
• Define tendering strategies and competitive positioning in hospitals.
• Coordinate evidence generation (HEOR, value propositions, etc.).
• Build and manage relationships with Ministry of Health, reimbursement authorities, hospitals and committees.
• Influence policies, clinical guidelines, and biosimilar adoption frameworks.
• Launches and lifecycle management readiness for new product launches.

Skills

Market access strategy

Stakeholder engagement

Cross-functional leadership

Healthcare policy knowledge

Communication skills

Education

University degree in a Life Sciences related field

Job description

Sandoz is a global market leader in Biosimilar and Generics medicine, a market leader in a sector is helped pioneer. Our Vision is to be the world’s leading and most valued generic and biosimilar medicine company.

We are pursuing access to medicine goals in two areas:

• ensuring responsible access to critical antibiotics which is seen as the backbone of modern medicine, and
• democratizing access to biologic therapies through healthy competition

As Regional Access Manager in Portugal, you will define and implement the market access strategy in Portugal, leading the institutional relation with INFARMED and SPMS, to ensure pricing, reimboursement, public contracts and sustainable access to medicines across the country.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Pricing, Reimbursement and Access Strategy
• Design and implement the national pricing, reimbursement, and access strategy.
• Lead the preparation of reimbursement dossiers and negotiations with health authorities.
• Define tendering strategies and competitive positioning in hospitals.
• Marketing–Access Integration (Key Role Element)
• Translate the clinical and economic value proposition into marketing messages targeted at key decision-makers (payers, hospitals, clinicians).
• Align brand plans and marketing campaigns with access objectives.
• Coordinate evidence generation (HEOR, value propositions, etc.).
• Stakeholders & Policy Shaping
• Build and manage relationships with Ministry of Health, Reimbursement authorities, Hospitals and pharmacy & therapeutics committees
• Influence policies, clinical guidelines, and biosimilar adoption frameworks.
• Market and Environmental Analysis
• Analyze healthcare policies, competitive landscape, pricing and access trends
• Identify business risks and opportunities.
• Cross-Functional Leadership
• Coordinate teams across Marketing, Medical, Regulatory, Sales
• Lead strategic launch projects and lifecycle management initiatives.
• Launches and Lifecycle Management
• Ensure access readiness for new product launches.
• Optimize the positioning of commercially established products.

What You Need To Bring To The Role

• University education in a related field
• Deep knowledge of the Portuguese healthcare landscape and direct relationships with key stakeholders like authorities, regulator, hospitals.
• Sound experience designing and implementing successful market access strategies.
• Native Portuguese and fluent English are required.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills

What You'll Receive

Sandoz compensation is determined by job level, qualifications, niche skills, experience, and location within company salary ranges. Fully proficient and highly effective employees can expect a starting salary around market median, with those new to the level or with less functional depth at the lower end of the range and those with sustained superior or niche skills towards the higher end of the range. Internal equity and external market data inform our range placement. Annual salary reviews consider performance outcomes, market alignment, and business needs.

Why Sandoz?

Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, provided more than 900 million patient treatments across 100+ countries in 2024 and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!

With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.

Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!

Join us!

Commitment To Diversity & Inclusion

We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Hiring decisions are only based on the qualification for the position, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age and disability.

The law provides for severely disabled / equal applicants the opportunity to involve the local representative body for disabled employees (SBV) in the application process. If you would like to request this, please let us know in advance as a note on your CV.

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