Pricing&AccessContractingLead

**Salary Range:** zł331,900.00 - zł616,300.00 **Job Description Summary** #LI-Hybrid Location: Warsaw, Poland Relocation Support: Novartis is unable to offer relocation support: please only apply if accessible. As a member of the Country Value & Access Leadership Team, the Pricing & Access Contracting Lead is responsible for ensuring competitive, compliant, and value based pricing across the entire product lifecycle, from early development and launch to contracting and mature brand management. The role brings deep payer and market expertise, steers pricing strategy and governance, translates international pricing guidance into effective local execution, and leads contracting and tendering activities to secure sustainable patient access while maximizing portfolio value. **Job Description** **Key responsibilities** * Provide payer and market expertise to shape robust pricing and contracting strategies across the full product lifecycle. * Lead the review, validation, and endorsement of country pricing proposals and business cases, and actively support negotiations with payers and public authorities. * Assess and clearly communicate the market, payer, and patient access implications of pricing decisions, ensuring alignment with portfolio and access objectives. * Develop, maintain, and continuously enhance pricing tools, models, and guidance to support access, field, and cross‑functional teams. * Translate global and regional pricing guidance into compliant, locally optimized pricing strategies and ensure consistent execution across the portfolio. * Embed pricing strategies into launch planning, tender processes, and contracting activities, including management of price changes, rebates, and discounts. * Design and implement access contracting and tender strategies from launch through loss of exclusivity, including mature brand optimization and renewals. * Lead or support complex contract negotiations with payers, hospitals, and authorities, ensuring high‑quality tender