Strategic ULS Partnerships Lead (Hybrid)

MSD Portugal; Oeiras; Hybrid; EUR 42,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

MSD Portugal is seeking an ULS Partner to act as a strategic coordinator for the ULS ecosystem, aligning institutional priorities with company solutions and patient access challenges. You will build partnerships, monitor funding circuits, and drive value through cross-functional collaboration across Commercial, Medical, Market Access and Policy teams.

You will oversee the ULS portfolio, define vision and priorities, and use data-driven insights and dashboards to demonstrate impact while ensuring

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of professional experience in a healthcare and/or pharmaceutical context.
• Knowledge of the health context, including ULS, funding, and decision circuits.
• Ability to build relationships, trust, and communicate.
• Proficiency in reading data, KPIs, translating insights into solution building, strategic context and impact analysis, and use of digital tools and AI.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities with flexibility of allocation.
• Commitment to compliance, ethical rigor, and adherence to our company policies.

Responsibilities

• Define vision and partnership matrix of the ULS network.
• Execute transversal and individualized account planning, including management of priorities agreed with business units.
• Monitor context with prioritization of opportunities and build value solutions with ULS.
• Participate in the identification, construction, and implementation of cross or above ULS projects of importance.
• Monitor and demonstrate results through data-driven analysis, dashboards.
• Cover assigned ULS portfolio.
• Drive access management for the assigned medicines, ensuring clear and actionable patient access path within the relevant ULS decision and funding circuits.
• Manage relationships with external ULSs and related entities.
• Cross-functional collaboration across Commercial, Medical, Market Access, Policy and other relevant functions around agreed ULS priorities.

Skills

Account Management

Account Planning

Building Trust

Data Analysis

Market Access Strategies

Market Opportunity Analysis

Partnership Management

Relationship Building

Relationship Management

Strategic Thinking

Job description

MSD Portugal is seeking an ULS Partner to act as a strategic coordinator for the ULS ecosystem, aligning institutional priorities with company solutions and patient access challenges. You will build partnerships, monitor funding circuits, and drive value through cross-functional collaboration across Commercial, Medical, Market Access and Policy teams.

You will oversee the ULS portfolio, define vision and priorities, and use data-driven insights and dashboards to demonstrate impact while ensuring