Graduate, Market Access

Graduate, Market Access

Based in Basildon, Essex

Salary: Competitive + Benefits + Bonus

Start date early September 2025

If you have a keen interest in health economics and want to develop a deep and broad understanding of market access, and the role it plays in ensuring that patients have timely and sustained access to medicines, then we want to hear from you.

Join us to help improve peoples' lives and make healthcare better for everyone

Why Pharmanovia?

Pharmanovia is a dynamic, fast-growing international pharmaceutical company with a portfolio of over 20 brands across more than 160 markets. Our mission is to improve patient health globally through the revitalisation of niche, tried-and-trusted medicines.

Our core behaviours are:

• We act decisively but we never compromise on quality.
• We keep our promises and do as we say.
• We value our heritage and foster an entrepreneurial spirit.
• We reinvest in our future - in our products, our brands and our people.
• We give back to our communities.

Since its inception in 2013, Pharmanovia has grown consistently year on year, focusing on delivering high-quality branded prescription medicines to patients, prescribers and healthcare providers across the world. Our growth has enabled the company to reinvest in its products, brands, people, and to give back to its communities. A people business with a strong, supportive culture that encourages innovation and entrepreneurial spirit, our team comprises over 300 employees and 29 nationalities, operating from offices in the UK, Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland, U.A.E., India, Singapore, Italy, Spain, and South Korea.

We are an agile and imaginative global specialty pharma business and a preferred partner for innovator pharma companies, instigating a paradigm shift in the life cycle management of iconic medicines. We seek to extensively engage with clinical communities to communicate product improvements and prioritise environmental, social, and governance considerations across the business and workforce.

Pharmanovia's therapeutic areas include Cardiovascular, Oncology, Endocrinology and Neurology.

Our Graduate Scheme:

We are passionate about providing early pathways into pharma for graduates and have won the Pharma Industry Awards UK's Graduate Training Programme of the Year in September 2023. This award celebrates those pharmaceutical organisations offering best-in-class graduate training and development programmes.

Our inclusive, high-performance culture provides opportunities to continually learn, develop and try new things. We have designed this programme to help graduates evolve and refine their skills, by working closely with our leadership team on high level projects. We are providing a pathway for bright talent in a unique, dynamic section of the pharmaceutical industry.

During this two-year programme you will have the opportunity to get real hands-on experience and contribute to large-scale real-world pharmaceutical projects. At the end of the successful completion of our scheme, you will have strong employment prospects as we hope to be able to offer you the chance to secure a full-time role with our brightest minds, in a department that will keep developing your career.

The role:

Joining the Global Market Access team as Market Access Graduate, you will contribute to ensure patients in need have timely and sustained access to Pharmanovia products, and that products and services are priced and reimbursed. Health economics and value communication, pricing analytics, payer engagement, collaboration, and reimbursement submissions, are just a few of the tasks we perform within the fast-growing market access environment.

You will also be learning about and supporting the execution of the Market Access & Pricing Strategy, ensuring timely launch readiness is achieved. This includes early evidence gap analysis for HTA submissions, mapping of local requirements, pricing and launch sequence analysis and finally preparing the price and reimbursement submissions.

Market Access is fully integrated across the value chain from early asset evaluation to launch assets. We are supporting at regional and country level to drive access activities for in-market brands. As a Market Access Graduate at Pharmanovia, you will be part of an international team and working in project teams across Commercial, Business Development, Project Management, Regulatory, Medical, Supply Chain, and Business Operations.

You will be able to think strategically and have excellent analytical skills. You'll be eager to solve problems and challenges, identify opportunities, think critically when analysing data and data sources and compile useful overviews of data and intel. You will be proactive and can take on tasks independently, applying good time management and prioritising skills. You will need to be able to be flexible and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.

The two-year graduate scheme will also offer significant development opportunities and you will gain a wide understanding of market access from a global and local perspective.

What you'll be involved in:

• Supporting on executing the Market Access Strategy and goals
• Project support (including day to day management) for market access projects, national HTA submissions, and pricing strategies working closely with regional stakeholders and managers to ensure optimal patient access to new and existing Pharmanovia products
• Supporting the Global Value Dossier development to support HTA submissions
  • Identifying payer target population; Mapping burden of disease and understanding the patient journey to identify the unmet needs and healthcare resource utilisation
  • Development of value stories with strong clinical, health economic and Quality of Life messages to justify the economic value of the product. This requires understanding of the unmet needs and the challenges within current disease management
  • Completing HTA submissions in collaboration with local consultants
• Maintaining the Price Database and lead price reviews, price certificates and price submissions
  • Gaining knowledge and insights to International Reference Pricing regulations and keeping up to date on the impact of potential price changes
• Supporting on input to early asset evaluation - presenting data input in a structured overview with clear conclusions

The department has an ethos of continuous improvement, refining systems and creating efficiencies. This, along with the rapid growth of the business, leads to a varied and dynamic working environment.

About you:

• On track to achieve a minimum 2.1 degree in life sciences and/or econometrics, health economics, public health, value communication etc.
• Experience in a pharmaceutical environment is a plus, but not essential
• Excellent standard of written and verbal communication in business English
• Strong aptitude for technology and highly proficient in the use of MS Office, including intermediate to advanced level Excel
• Ability to relate to stakeholders at all levels and from different cultural backgrounds
• First class numerical and analytical skills
• Proactive approach to problem solving and critical thinking
• Strategic thinking and data analysis skills
• Detail-oriented and organised, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines simultaneously
• Ability to maintain resilience, learn quickly and navigate ambiguity
• Collaborative, team-player attitude and a willingness to take on new challenges
• Eagerness to learn and develop new skills

What we offer:

We offer a competitive salary and rewards package including holiday, health & well-being program, employee recognition awards, social events, pension scheme and hybrid working.

Graduates are an important part of the team. We're committed to having a workforce that represents every part of society. So, we're keen to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and circumstances. We will ensure that you have the support and guidance that comes from a collaborative environment, where fresh perspectives are encouraged, and questions are welcomed.

Interviews will be held from December 2024 until March 2025. Offers should be made in March/April, with the role starting at the beginning of September 2025.

By applying for this role, your details will be sent to Ortolan People, who are engaged to provide recruitment support in processing applications. We will endeavour to respond to all applicants within three working days. Occasionally for roles with a very high volume of applicants, this may not be possible.