Chief Medicines Pricing Strategist

1 day ago


Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Department of Health and Social Care Full time

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and skilled Chief Medicines Pricing Strategist to lead our policy efforts on medicines pricing.

The Department of Health and Social Care is responsible for ensuring that patients in the UK have access to the best available treatments, while also ensuring value for money for the NHS.

As Chief Medicines Pricing Strategist, you will play a critical role in developing and implementing policies that support the sustainability of the NHS and improve health outcomes across the UK.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the development and implementation of policies related to medicines pricing, including the negotiation and implementation of the 2024 voluntary scheme for branded medicines pricing, access, and growth (VPAG).
  • Provide authoritative advice to senior officials and Ministers on medicines pricing policy issues, including how pricing interacts with trade deals.
  • Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders in the pharmaceutical industry, the NHS, NICE, OLS, and the Devolved Governments.
  • Develop and maintain trusted relationships with the pharmaceutical industry, the NHS, NICE, OLS, and the Devolved Governments.
  • Manage and update where necessary the statutory regulations.

Requirements

To be successful in this role, you will need:

  • Able to think strategically across a complex and evolving system, and to draw out the opportunities, risks and priorities to meet high level objectives.
  • Able to establish, build and maintain trusting relationships or partnerships with key stakeholders who are of strategic importance to the organisation.
  • Able to use creative thinking to make well-informed and authoritative policy recommendations. This will involve sound judgement in analysing complex, technical or conflicting evidence and ability to choose the most appropriate of alternative solutions, and to deliver high-quality advice to senior officials and stakeholders.
  • To be politically and economically aware and consider the long-term implications of policy and other changes; interpret trends and developments and produce future policies and organisational strategies in the light of these.
  • Able to rapidly understand and get up to speed with new concepts, ideas and priorities, bringing together the right people to understand the issues, the level of ambition and set the direction.
  • Push decision making to the right level within their teams, not allow unnecessary bureaucracy and structure to suppress innovation and delivery. Make difficult decisions by pragmatically weighing the complexities involved against the need to act.

Salary and Benefits

This role offers a salary of £66,832 per annum, plus benefits, including a contributory pension scheme and generous annual leave entitlement.



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