Market Access Specialist UK (Medical Device)

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Bring your passion, ideas, and purpose to life in a company that can truly help you achieve your full potential.

The Opportunity

Abbott Medical Devices are recruiting for a brand-new Market Access Specialist role in the UK. As a Market Access Specialist, you will report to the Head of Market Access UK&I, and you will support the Abbott complex medical device business units.

This is a field-based role with 40%-50% travelling anticipated within the UK.

What You’ll Do

As a Market Access Specialist, you will support the development and implementation of value-based approaches and solutions from a Health Economics and Market Access perspective as a critical component of the short- and mid-term growth strategy of the commercial organisations in the UK. More specifically:

• Provide operational support to the Head of Market Access UK&I in the execution of upstream (payers / HTAs) and downstream (customers) actions.
• Support the development and the implementation of value-focused economic and reimbursement strategies and tools.
• Become a trusted partner to the commercial businesses.
• Enable health economic data-driven engagement at the account level, by performing payer data analyses that support sales and marketing strategies and actions.
• Provide research and reimbursement deliverables for customer engagement initiatives, reimbursement education, dossier development, and economic modelling.
• Provide internal training and education on relevant topics, such as NHS funding flows and payment systems.
• Support the development of economic value components to enhance the value proposition of Abbott’s therapies and devices.
• Proactively monitor the external environment, customers, and competitors to identify opportunities for protecting and improving value capture.
• Maintain and leverage critical relationships with key market access stakeholders.

Required qualifications / Profile

• Degree in Science, Medicine, Economics or Engineering is preferred.
• Formal Education and/ or training in economics, health economics, health technology assessment or the procurement of Value based Healthcare is beneficial.
• Demonstrated experience in dealing with pricing, reimbursement and HTA (Health Technology Assessment) is beneficial.
• Demonstrated experience of working with Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data and/or hospital coding is beneficial.
• A strong understanding of funding flows / NHS payment systems is beneficial.
• Demonstrable understanding and experience in medical device commercialization and strong business acumen.
• Strong project management skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

This is a fantastic opportunity to become a valued member of a highly skilled Market Access team in the innovative medical device business of Abbott.

As you’d expect from an innovative global health care company, we offer a competitive range of benefits including excellent salaries, a class-leading defined contribution pension scheme, private healthcare, life assurance and a flexible benefits scheme.

Abbott is about the power of health. For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential — because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. Joining us, you can shape your career as you shape the future of healthcare.

With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions — across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it’s next-generation diagnostics, life-changing devices, science-based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health.

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In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

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