Manager, Strategic Pricing

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**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 pricing is a significant asset
- Previous market access or payer experience is a significant asset.
- Previous working experience in pharmaceutical pricing is desirable
- Successful track record demonstrating strong analytic capability
- Knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry e.g. IQVIA databases is an asset
- Fluency in French is an asset

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