- Location
- Madrid-Office, Spain
- Type
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Director
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Source
- Workday
Description
Viatris is a global healthcare company uniquely positioned to bridge the traditional divide between generics and brands, combining the best of both to more holistically address healthcare needs globally. With a mission to empower people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life, we provide access at scale, currently supplying high-quality medicines to approximately 1 billion patients around the world annually and touching all of life's moments, from birth to the end of life, acute conditions to chronic diseases.
We have been included on number of award lists that demonstrate the impact we are making.
Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach, and better access to treatment.
For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world.
The Role & What You Will Be Doing
As Viatris continues expanding its portfolio of innovative and value-added medicines, we are seeking an experienced and strategic Head of Market Access to lead our Market Access efforts in Spain. This Director-level position plays a critical role in shaping and executing national strategies for pricing, reimbursement, and access across the product lifecycle—from pipeline to launch and post-launch optimization.
The Head of Market Access will lead cross-functional coordination, engage with key national stakeholders (including HTA bodies, payers, and policy influencers), and ensure that the value of Viatris' medicines is clearly communicated and supported with robust evidence. The role is part of the local leadership team and reports to the Country Manager, with strong functional alignment to the European and Global Market Access leadership.
Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference, and here’s how the Director, Head of Market Access Spain role will make an impact:
Strategic Leadership
Develop and lead the execution of integrated Market Access strategies for Spain across all therapeutic areas, with a primary focus on innovative and value-added medicines.
Lead and coordinate submissions to Spanish HTA and pricing authorities (AEMPS, CIPM, Interministerial Pricing Committee), ensuring compliance and maximizing probability of success.
Shape access conditions, pricing corridors, and reimbursement pathways in alignment with business and regional/global objectives. Shape access conditions, pricing corridors, and reimbursement pathways in alignment with business and regional/global objectives.
Ensure ongoing ownership of portfolio pricing strategy, including lifecycle price management, mitigation of price erosion in collaboration with the global pricing team.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Partner with Medical Affairs, Regulatory, Commercial, Policy, Health Economics, and Global Pricing teams to drive access readiness and evidence generation plans.
Serve as the key Market Access representative on launch teams and product-specific steering committees in Spain.
Ensure adaptation of core value dossiers and economic models to Spanish requirements.
Stakeholder Engagement
Build and maintain trusted relationships with payer organizations, HTA agencies, policy makers, and healthcare system influencers.
In collaboration with Policy team actively contribute to shaping the external access environment to support patient access and business sustainability.
Team Leadership & Capability Building
Lead and develop the local Market Access function, with direct responsibility for Regional Access activities and oversight of related initiatives across Spain.
Contribute to capability building in access, pricing, and health economics across the affiliate.
About Your Skills & Experience
For this role, we’re looking for a candidate who has an effective combination of the following qualifications, skills, and experiences:
Advanced degree in life sciences, pharmacy, medicine, health economics, or public health.
Minimum of 8–10 years of experience in Market Access in Spain, including direct HTA and pricing negotiations.
Strong technical understanding of HEOR principles, including the ability to interpret and apply health economic models, burden of illness data, and real-world evidence to support pricing and reimbursement submissions.
Proven track record of leading Market Access strategies for recently launched innovative medicines in Spain.
Deep knowledge of the Spanish healthcare system, reimbursement pathways, and evolving policy trends.
Experience managing or mentoring teams and working in a matrix environment.
Strategic mindset with a hands-on attitude.
Strong interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills.
Fluent in Spanish and English (spoken and written).
High level of integrity, ownership, and collaboration.
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
Willingness to travel nationally and occasionally within Europe.
At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.
Why Viatris?
At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits, and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives, and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. You will also have the opportunity to access excellent career progression opportunities and work-life balance initiatives.
Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris
At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare, not as it is, but as it should be. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity, and inclusion means to us, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion
Sustainability at Viatris
Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility
At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others.
Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
