Market Access Head BBU

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.

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• Leads and shapes the market access strategy for AZ Biopharma innovative portfolio in Saudi Arabia, ensuring sustainable reimbursement, patient access, and long-term value realization.
• Provides leadership across the market access organization, ensuring strategic alignment, execution excellence, and strong people capability.
• Based in Saudi Arabia.
• Reports directly to the Market Access Director.

• Set direction and priorities for Market Access strategies, objectives, and tactical plans in alignment with brand and country strategies.
• Lead the development and execution of early access strategies for existing brands and new launches, ensuring sustainable adoption within the Saudi healthcare system.
• Enable and guide teams to execute formulary listing processes and brand expansion plans through effective cross-functional collaboration.
• Drive pricing analysis and recommendations by overseeing competitive landscape assessments, customer insights, and alignment with brand value propositions.
• Shape stakeholder-informed market access strategies by anticipating stakeholder priorities, identifying partnership opportunities and business risks, and translating insights into actionable recommendations.
• Anticipate shifts in the external environment, translate insights into strategic guidance, and ensure timely organizational response.
• Work in close partnership with cross-functional teams to shape and implement market access strategies across the product lifecycle, including pre-launch readiness and launch execution.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to develop pricing and contracting strategies that optimize product positioning and enable effective pricing and contracting execution.
• Drive value-based engagement with key stakeholders to address access barriers and support informed access decision-making.
• Ensure payer-relevant evidence strategies are defined and executed, including clinical, economic, and real-world evidence.
• Guide the development of robust, localized value propositions supported by evidence, ensuring consistency and scientific rigor across teams.
• Sponsor and enable innovative projects and partnerships that address customer needs and create sustainable, win-win outcomes.

• Shape and sustain strategic partnerships with Health Authorities through high-impact health initiatives aligned with national priorities.
• Set direction for stakeholder engagement strategies, ensuring alignment with the Country President and Market Access Director.
• Ensure disciplined execution and visibility of stakeholder plans by monitoring progress and communicating status to internal stakeholders.
• Foster strong, trust-based relationships with key customers and stakeholders, ensuring consistency and quality of engagement across teams.

• Partner with the Market Access Director and pricing teams to shape pricing and reimbursement strategies that optimize the lifetime value of AstraZeneca’s products, in line with corporate guidance.
• Set pricing direction required to enable brand and market access strategies.
• Guide assessment of the competitive pricing landscape, ensuring insights are translated into clear, defensible pricing recommendations.
• Anticipate and assess the business impact of current and evolving market access environments and price regulation changes, supporting proactive decision-making.
• Enable the development of innovative pricing approaches, including managed entry agreements and alternative contracting models, to support sustainable access.
• Collaborate closely with the Market…