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Job Function:

Market Access

Job Sub Function:

Health Economics Market Access

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Casablanca, Morocco

Job Description:

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Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is hiring a Market Access Manager to join our Market Access team located in Casablanca, Morocco.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Job Title: Market Access Manager (MAM) Morocco

Reporting to: Regional Market Access Head

Functional Group: Market Access

Direct Reports: N/A

Overall Purpose of Job

The Market Access Manager (MAM) is locally accountable for the market access strategy implementation and action plan for the Morocco portfolio thanks to high-quality deliverables that support timely and sustainable patient access. The role combines value and reimbursement dossier preparation, value projects development and implementation, pricing business-case preparation, launch readiness, patient access solutions and stakeholder engagement.

The MAM works closely with the Market Access team members as well as with cross-functional teams. The Market Access Manager will report to the Market Access Head Maghreb and FSA.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Field-time allocation: Approximately 20% of working time, according to business needs.

Develop and implement Morocco market access plans

• Translate regional access, pricing and reimbursement strategy into tactical plans for priority therapeutic areas and brands, with clear objectives, milestones and resource requirements.
• Build launch-access plans for new products and pipeline assets, anticipating evidence, pricing, reimbursement and stakeholder needs.
• Design and support compliant, sustainable patient access programs based on patient, brand and segment identified needs; monitor performance and coordinate relevant external partners.

Lead technical access deliverables and value recognition initiatives

• Develop value and reimbursement dossiers, evidence packs, value propositions and health-economic analyses in line with evolving national requirements.
• Conduct pricing analyses, and scenario assessments, and support the preparation of robust business cases for internal submissions.
• Provide market access training to Strategic Account Managers and other relevant teams.
• Develop compliant materials to support external communication on access programs, value propositions and market access initiatives.

Environment Insights and stakeholder engagement

• Consolidate and analyze insights on patient-pathway barriers, payer requirements, policy developments and competitive dynamics to identify emerging access opportunities and risks and recommend practical actions.
• Develop a strong understanding of access pathways and specific requirements across public and private sectors and relevant patient and payer segments.
• Key access stakeholders’ engagement in line with the approved engagement strategy (health authorities, payers, institutions, healthcare professionals).
• Support national advisory boards, payer events and broader healthcare-environment initiatives.

Drive aligned and compliant execution

• Partner with Medical, Regulatory, Commercial, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Pharmacovigilance, Quality and regional access teams.
• Manage access projects against agreed timelines and coordinate field implementation with relevant internal functions and external partners.
• Manage and monitor assigned projects and functional budgets.

The Market Access Manager will interact with

• Externally: Local payers, public and private institutions, healthcare professionals, service providers and other relevant access stakeholders.
• Internally: The Regional Market Access Head, Strategic Account Managers, Market Access Coordinator, Medical, Regulatory, Commercial, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Pharmacovigilance, Quality and regional access teams.

Compliance Responsibilities

• Ensure safety reporting requirements are met in accordance with applicable company policies and procedures when planning projects, developing materials, executing activities and contracting external partners.
• Ensure legal, compliance, fair-market-value, transfer-of-value, data-privacy and materials-review requirements are understood and appropriately applied when planning projects, developing materials, executing projects and contracting vendors.
• Maintain inspection readiness, including completion of required training and appropriate documentation.

Job Requirements

Essential Knowledge and Skills

• University degree in pharmacy, medicine, life sciences, public health, business or a related discipline; postgraduate training in health economics, Market access or health policy is an advantage.
• 4–5 years of relevant professional experience in the pharmaceutical industry, including experience in market access, pricing, reimbursement, health economics or a closely related function.
• Strong knowledge of the Moroccan healthcare system, payer environment, reimbursement pathways and key public and private institutions.
• Demonstrated experience developing access strategies, value dossiers, health-economic analyses, pricing analyses, business cases or patient access solutions.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including the ability to build and interpret pricing models, financial simulations, business cases, trackers and scenario analyses.
• Strong analytical, technical writing and presentation skills, with the ability to translate strategic insights into practical, evidence-based initiatives.
• Strong project-management capability, with demonstrated ability to manage multiple dossiers, submissions and launch-access workstreams against demanding timelines.
• Proven field stakeholder-management experience, with the ability to communicate, influence, negotiate and build sustainable relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to drive change and deliver results effectively within a matrix and evolving organization.
• Fluent written and spoken French and English; Arabic is an advantage.

Core Competencies Required for This Role

• Customer and patient focus.
• Strategic and analytical thinking.
• Results and solution orientation.
• Clear communication, collaboration and interpersonal effectiveness, good negotiation skills.
• Planning, organization, discipline and attention to detail.
• Accountability, integrity and sound judgment.
• Adaptability, initiative and ability to drive progress in a changing environment.

Special Requirements:

• Good scientific or medical knowledge and sound understanding of health-economic and market access principles.

Other Features of the Job:
Ability and willingness to travel within Morocco and, when required, within the region.

Job Location:
Casablanca, Morocco.

 

 

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