Manager, Strategic Pricing

Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, AstraZeneca has been recognized as a Greater Toronto Area Top Employer for eight straight years. We pride ourselves on creating a collaborative forward-thinking culture that champions knowledge-sharing, bold thinking and innovation - ultimately providing employees with the opportunity to work across teams, functions and even the globe.

Recognizing the importance of individualized flexibility, our ways of working allow employees to balance personal and work commitments while ensuring we continue to create a strong environment of collaboration and teamwork by engaging face-to-face in our offices 3 days a week. Our head office and BlueSky Hub in downtown Toronto are purposely crafted with collaboration in mind, providing space where teams can come together to strategize, brainstorm and connect on key projects.

**Key responsibilities include**:
**Strategic Pricing**
- Responsible for improving life-cycle-management by implementing of annual price increases, developing contract/RFP pricing modelling, and improve upon negotiation strategies
- Support Senior Manager in strategic pricing projects and initiatives
- Develop pricing models and scenarios to support pCPA and private payer negotiations and product listing agreements to optimize the commercialization of existing or emerging brands
- Submit semi-annual PMPRB reports and ensure drug prices are in compliance with the pricing guidelines by working with both all stakeholders
- Complete and submit
- Implement pricing approval process and compliance requirements locally and globally including PMPRB reporting, monitoring and issues management
- Assess and analyze price performance against assumed targets and objectives
- Uses data mining, market insights, and environmental trends to inform strategies and plans.

**Contract Management and Influence**
- Build and review financial models supporting the contracting with payers
- Support the development of term sheets and contract language as required
- Ensures contract documentation requirements are followed and supports the contract approval requirements and process
- Supervise contract and program performance by reviewing and analyzing data; uses this analysis as the basis for recommendations for future contracts and programs

**Other responsibilities**:

- Lead validation process for PLA invoices, ensuring
- Collaborate and lead cross functional team members on process improvement

**Skills and Capabilities**:

- Strong analytical skills - forecasting, financial modelling, business impact analysis and database management
- Excellent technical skills - Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
- Strong eye for business
- Attention to detail is critical
- Ability to think strategically in developing new business solutions
- Strong communication skills: interpersonal, writing and presentation
- Quick forward thinking
- Desire to learn about market access environment
- Adaptive style with ability to influence and establish relationships with a range of collaborators

**Qualifications**:

- Excellent communications skills (written, spoken and presentation)
- Demonstrated capacity for learning in a fast-paced work environment
- Experience in Oncology is a significant asset
- Previous market access or payer experience is not a pre-requisite.
- Previous working experience in pharmaceutical pricing is desirable but an asset
- Successful track record demonstrating strong analytic capability
- Knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry e.g. IQVIA databases is an asset
- Knowledge of PMPRB data reporting is a strength
- Fluency in French is an asset

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