Head of Market Access & Government Affairs

Coloplast is a leader within Medical Technology and a truly professional and global company with over 16.000 employees around the globe. We are ambitious and successful; we are innovative, and we grow - all in the pursuit of our mission of making life easier for people with intimate healthcare needs. 

The job

Overall, you will be responsible for defining and deploying the market access and government affairs strategy of the company, for current and future products in the best interests for all the Business Units of the subsidiary. You will also be responsible to lead the tender’s team of the company.

Major Areas of accountability:

• Government and Corporate Affairs:
  • Represent Coloplast in front of official bodies, in particular Ministry of Health and Autonomous Communities, and carry out Public Affairs activities.
  • Represent the company and actively participate in the working meetings, decisions and actions implemented by the Spanish Industry Association (Fenin).
  • Ensure precise institutional monitoring (Parliaments, government, administration, media…), to identify and anticipate threats and opportunities for Coloplast interests, formulating recommendations for action.
  • Mobilize health alliances to support reimbursement opening/access (e.g. patient organizations, industry associations, policy makers, KOLs, etc.)
  • Participate in the design and organization of media campaigns, identifying relevant institutional stakeholders, and understand decision-making agendas.
  • Keep and organize contacts with key public authorities.
  • Analyze stakeholder positions, define messages and arguments.
• Market Access area:
  • Lead the national/regional market access (MA)and reimbursement strategies.
  • Development and roll out strategic initiatives designed to maximize patient access to Coloplast products and services.
  • Aligned with HQs, set the development of value dossiers of Coloplast products and services for payers, including the health economics and clinical evidence data that may be required to optimize and/or preserve Spanish reimbursement levels.
  • Ensure close dialogue and cooperation with internal (Marketing, sales, business excellence…and HQs teams) and external (MoH, AEMPS, RedETS, key regional payers, PAGs, Sc. Societies, Nursery College…) stakeholders.
  • Participate in the development of pricing negotiation strategies.
  • Owns and drive the overall tender process for all business units managing a team of three tender specialists.
• Responsible of the regulatory affairs area, driving one regulatory affairs manager.

Qualifications

• Degree within healthcare/ business adm. and/or medical technology. Master is an asset.
• A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in a similar position within the field of medical devices/healthcare.
• Solid understanding of the healthcare environment.
• Excellent strategic thinking skills combined with strong analytical and conceptual capabilities.
• Relational skills allowing cross-functional work and forging quality relationships, including with actors outside the company.
• Excellent English and Spanish language communication skills- written and verbal-.

Con unos ambiciosos planes de crecimiento, Coloplast desarrolla y comercializa productos y servicios que hacen la vida más fácil a aquellas personas con necesidades de atención sanitaria personal. Tenemos más de 16.000 empleados y nuestros productos están disponibles en más de 143 países. Somos una de las empresas líderes de dispositivos médicos a nivel mundial. Constantemente buscamos nuevas formas de hacer crecer el negocio – exploramos, aprendemos y buscamos nuevas formas de hacer las cosas.

Coloplast se compromete a ser una organización inclusiva, donde las diferencias son bienvenidas, las personas desarrollan su potencial y tienen un fuerte sentido de pertenencia debido a -y no a pesar de- sus diferencias. Por ello animamos a todos los candidatos idóneos y cualificados a presentar su candidatura independientemente de su sexo, edad, raza, nacionalidad, etnia, orientación sexual, creencia religiosa o capacidad física.

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