Market Access Lead - Hungary

• Location: Budapest, Hungary

• Hybrid: 60% office based, 40% remote

• Job type: Permeant, Full-time

About the job

As Market Access Lead within our Sanofi Hungary team, you'll support the implementation of all necessary activities to achieve rapid and efficient market access for our products, adapting global pricing strategies at the local level and helping to optimize pricing conditions over time. Ready to get started?

Join the team transforming how healthcare is delivered for chronic and specialty conditions worldwide. In General Medicines, you'll help drive meaningful outcomes in diabetes, transplant, and immunology - with the scale and urgency patients deserve.

About Sanofi

We're an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people's lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives.

Main responsibilities:

• Support and implement Market Access strategies, plans and tactics for products throughout their lifecycle to ensure optimization of recommendations, prices and access in line with business priorities and strategic ambitions.

• Prepare analyses on which commercial decisions are taken in relation to prices, recommendations, and funding. Manage the approval flow for all price decisions and tenders, and prepare submissions for pricing and reimbursement to OGYÉI and NEAK.

• Support evidence generation related to Market Access and ensure alignment with business priorities, market needs, and the Global Brand Strategy.

• Support and participate in relevant Authority negotiations together with the Country MA Head for optimal access and pricing according to approved commercial and access strategies.

• Maintain expert-level understanding of relevant recommendations, pricing and funding criteria used by payers in Hungary. Actively scan the environment, including legislative changes, for emerging trends and identify future risks.

• Anticipate potential changes to the Pricing & Reimbursement environment and implement strategies to minimize risk and resulting negative price reference impacts.

• Establish and maintain relationships with key officers at OGYÉI and NEAK related to pricing and reimbursement issues.

• Manage the preparation and submission of price applications for relevant products in close collaboration with all relevant departments (Business, Regulatory, Trade), ensuring proposed prices are aligned with strategic assumptions.

• Provide input and guidance to business and cross-functional teams regarding pricing, reimbursement and rebates issues, including timelines for new products and changes in patient co-payments.

About you

• Experience: Confirmed experience in a similar market access function within the pharmaceutical industry

• Soft and technical skills:

  • Knowledge of existing and emerging market access stakeholders and influencers for pharmaceutical products in Hungary (e.g., OGYÉI, NEAK, recommendation decision-making processes, tenders, public financing)

  • Demonstrated experience in scenario analyses related to payer value propositions, evidence requirements, pricing and access potential to shape disease area and commercial strategy

  • Profound knowledge of how value propositions are delivered to payers, including requirements for benefit ratings, P&R outcomes, and reimbursement coding

  • Understanding of payer value drivers and ability to anticipate payer objections

  • Experience in development of integrated market access & payer strategies and plans aimed at delivering product differentiation most relevant to payers

  • Track record of delivering payer-relevant tools with positive measurable impacts

  • Experience with health economics analysis and how value propositions are delivered to key recommending bodies and payers

• Education: Master's degree in health economics, pharmacology or similar, preferably complemented with an MBA

• Languages: Fluency in English and Hungarian required

Why choose us?

• Help shape the future of care for chronic and complex conditions like diabetes and cardiovascular disease - and make a real impact at scale, with medicines that reach over 100 million people each year.

• Drive meaningful impact at global scale while working in a simpler, digital- and AI-powered business that's rethinking how we work and engage with the world.

• Stretch your career in a development playground, with opportunities across functions, regions, and the entire product lifecycle.

• Work in a place that combines global scale with local expertise, backed by a strong culture of collaboration and shared purpose.

• Take good care of yourself and your family with our wide range of health and wellbeing benefits: high-quality healthcare coverage, wellness programs, and 14 weeks of gender-neutral parental leave.

• Enjoy a thoughtfully crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact, including a company car.

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