TherapeuticAreaStrategyAccessManager

**Job Description Summary** -Leads the implementation of a sustainable Patient Access strategy at a local (CPO) level. Collects and analyze data to generate insights for Patient Access submissions that jointly create value for customers, patients and Novartis. **Job Description** **Location – Mumbai** **About the Role** : This role drives Value & Access (V&A) strategy by identifying and prioritizing opportunities across brands, developing pricing and reimbursement approaches based on deep healthcare and payer insights, and ensuring aligned, compliant execution. It collaborates cross-functionally to embed V&A into brand plans, enabling sustainable access, strong payer engagement, and achievement of commercial goals across the product lifecycle. **Key Responsibilities:** **Access Strategy, Positioning, and Portfolio Impact** * Collect current access challenge from commercial and marketing team of brands/portfolio under scope * Define baseline national access level for the brands/portfolio under scope * Design and propose access, pricing, and reimbursement strategies per product and portfolio for all payors including but not limited to self-pay/private insurance/state/CARE accounts. * Define alternative funding channels needed for the brand access strategy and deploy solutions around it * Identify, evaluate, and prioritize V&A strategic choices that drive commercial growth as per prioritization matrix * Translate global access guidance into locally relevant strategies * Ensure V&A strategies are embedded within integrated brand and portfolio plans * Align access strategies with product lifecycle stages, including launch and line extensions * Adapt strategies based on healthcare system, policy, and payer dynamics **Essential Requirements:** * Generate in‑depth customer and system insights to shape V&A and Therapeutic Area (TA) strategies * Translate insights into actionable V&A strategies and engagement models * Monitor external environment changes and integrate learnin