Role Title
Market Access Manager   
Location
Gauteng (Hybrid)
Rewards
Competitive salary and an excellent benefit package on offer

Summary
At Smith+Nephew, we believe in our products. We believe that through innovation, development and supporting our customers and patients we can help others achieve a Life Unlimited! Long before any of this is possible, we must go through many steps that will validate and verify our products, including evidence gathering and evaluation and design verification and validation.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Market Access Manager. The successful incumbent will be part of our Commercial Division and will report into our Commercial Director.  
The incumbent will be responsible for the definition, development, co-ordination and execution of strategic Market Access led projects and programmes within the organisation.
Sound exciting? We believe so.

Essential Job Functions

• Co-ordinate the beyond Compliance plan for new product launches across Franchises
• Accountability for execution of reimbursement plans where necessary
• Build or adapt and tailor global payer value propositions for the local markets and healthcare systems
• Proactively monitor the reimbursement and policy landscape for opportunities and threats to coverage of S&N products and solutions
• Define evidence requirements for successful market access and liaise with Clinical and Evidence teams in the cluster to ensure these are represented in the evidence plans.
• Identify the need for relevant sales tools e.g. budget impact models, value dossiers, business cases, to support product/solution adoption and brief this into MA or identify solutions to develop these tools
• Work with marketing and sales training team to train the commercial teams in effective use of the tools.
• Responsibility for identifying opportunities that will benefit our business as well as proactively identifying potential risks that need mitigation strategies.
• Monitor the external digital landscape in relation to market access strategies.
• Monitor and employ mitigating strategies for the changing Funder Landscape

Requirements

• Matric
• Clinical, Scientific or Medical Qualification
• Additional Health Economics qualification is preferable
• Experience in successful Product Approval submissions with Funders for Reimbursement including HTA/Budget Impact models
• Established relationships with key private stake holders pertaining to Product Approval submissions
• Medical Device experience

Applications:
If you share our passion for pioneering innovation and can demonstrate how you meet the criteria outlined, we would love to hear from you.
We continue to actively build an environment where every individual can fulfil their potential and be proud ambassadors for Smith & Nephew, our customers, and their patients.
We value the diversity of our people and welcome applications from everyone.
It’s more than business at Smith+Nephew – it’s personal. What we do every day, changes lives every day.
Healthcare is in Smith+Nephew’s DNA. From a single pharmacy in Hull, UK to a presence in over 100 countries, we’ve spent more than a century and a half working at the leading edge of medical technology.
At Smith+Nephew, you will find a company of people who care about each other, about our customers and their patients, and about the communities where we live and work.
Join us as we continue to make our work personal, to innovate and to develop devices that help