Market Access Manager (12-month contract) - Diabetes Care (British Columbia)

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant filed such as Public Policy, HTA, Clinical Epidemiology, Health Economics, Political Science, Communications, Business Administration or Healthcare Management.
• Master’s Degree or PhD (preferred): Public Policy, Health Economics, Clinical Epidemiology, HTA, Business Administration (MBA), or a healthcare-related field to demonstrate deeper understanding of both public and policy and the healthcare landscape.
• Additional Certifications (optional but beneficial): Professional certifications in stakeholder management, public affairs, or government relations.
• Minimum five plus years of experience.
• Proven track record in market access, stakeholder relations, government relations, public affairs, or external affairs within the healthcare, medical device, or pharmaceutical industry.
• Candidates should have demonstrated success in working with key external stakeholders like government officials, HTA bodies, healthcare professionals and patient associations groups.
• Strong understanding of public policy, HTA, and regulatory environments. Experience engaging with government policy makers and advocacy organizations is critical.
• Strategic relationship-building: significant experience in building and maintaining long term professional relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Ability to work under pressure and act with urgency: demonstrated success in working in fast-paced environments as responding to urgent matters and managing evolving priorities are crucial.
• Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills, with a proven track record of developing tactical plans, creating executive-ready materials, delivering clear and compelling messages, and building alignment across internal and external audiences, including senior leaders.
• Project management and resource oversight: experience in managing external agencies or consultants, budgets, and multistakeholder projects, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
• Healthcare industry knowledge: familiarity with the healthcare ecosystem at a national or provincial level, particularly with payers, healthcare providers, reimbursement, and market access frameworks. Previous experience working within a pharmaceutical, medical device or biotechnology company is highly preferred.
• Proven proactive work ethic: highly motivated self-starter with experience working in roles that require a high level of proactivity, providing regular updates and ensuring alignment with the organization’s objectives without needing to be asked.
• PC literate including Word, PowerPoint, Excel skills.
• Working knowledge of statistics.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally (~25%+).
• This position supports Western Canada.
• Proven leadership skills.

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $120,000.00 to $168,000.00 CAD. The salary range provided applies to Canada only and does not apply to any other locations outside of Canada.

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