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The Role
Lead and develop a geographically deployed Health Access Managers team to drive reimbursement strategies and payer engagement across Saudi governmental accounts. Translate clinical and economic evidence into payer-facing value propositions, implement Market Access strategies, escalate and resolve access barriers, and collaborate cross-functionally to maximize formulary inclusion and accelerate patient access while ensuring compliance with company policies and Saudi healthcare regulations.
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Role Overview
The Healthcare Access Senior Manager is a strategic execution and leadership role responsible for directing Pfizer Saudi Arabia's Health Access Managers team - the primary access field force serving payers and clinical pharmacists across the governmental sector. This role drives reimbursement strategies, removes barriers to patient access, and bridges field intelligence with internal Market Access and HTA functions.
Key Responsibilities:
Team Leadership
Account & Payer Engagement
Strategy Implementation
Issue Resolution & Compliance
Education
Experience
Skills & Competencies
Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.
To learn more about acceptable and prohibited uses of AI during the recruitment process, please review our candidate AI-use guidelines available on Pfizer Careers .
Market Access
The Healthcare Access Senior Manager is a strategic execution and leadership role responsible for directing Pfizer Saudi Arabia's Health Access Managers team - the primary access field force serving payers and clinical pharmacists across the governmental sector. This role drives reimbursement strategies, removes barriers to patient access, and bridges field intelligence with internal Market Access and HTA functions.
Key Responsibilities:
Team Leadership
- Lead, coach, and develop the Health Access Managers team, building a high-performing, geographically deployed field force.
- Foster a culture of accountability, continuous learning, and patient-centricity across the team.
Account & Payer Engagement
- Build deep knowledge of each account's strategic priorities, competitive landscape, and reimbursement processes.
- Deliver compelling value stories to support product formulary listings and reimbursement objectives with external stakeholders.
- Translate clinical and economic evidence into persuasive, payer-facing conversations at senior levels.
- Proactively identify payer barriers and develop tailored materials and content to address them.
- Anticipate customer evidence needs across the product lifecycle and coordinate with cross functional teams to address gaps.
Strategy Implementation
- Implement access strategies developed by the Market Access function, adapting delivery to account-specific dynamics.
- Communicate field intelligence upstream to Market Access and HTA functions to inform access strategies and evidence generation priorities.
- Maximize product inclusion across all governmental sector hospitals through targeted, coordinated activities.
- Collaborate with Commercial and Brand teams to align access timelines with launch plans, accelerating patient access to Pfizer medications.
Issue Resolution & Compliance
- Conduct root cause analysis on access barriers; coordinate rapid cross-functional resolution and escalate where required.
- Leverage organizational resources - including Market Access, Finance, Business Intelligence, Medical, and Sales & Marketing - to solve complex access challenges.
- Ensure full compliance with applicable SOPs, company policies, and industry regulations.
- Maintain current knowledge of company strategy, policy, and the evolving Saudi healthcare landscape.
Education
- Bachelor's degree in pharmacy or a related medical field (required).
- Advanced degrees (MBA, Health Economics, or equivalent) is a plus.
Experience
- Minimum 7 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, with at least 4 years focused on market access, payer engagement, or reimbursement in Saudi Arabia.
- Demonstrated track record of securing reimbursement outcomes across Saudi governmental accounts.
- Prior experience managing or leading a field-based team is strongly preferred.
Skills & Competencies
- Deep knowledge of the Saudi healthcare system, reimbursement pathways, and market dynamics.
- Strong negotiation skills with the ability to engage credibly with senior payers and decision-makers.
- Proven ability to translate clinical and economic evidence into compelling payer-facing value propositions.
- Strong leadership and coaching capability, with experience developing distributed field teams.
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.
Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.
To learn more about acceptable and prohibited uses of AI during the recruitment process, please review our candidate AI-use guidelines available on Pfizer Careers .
Market Access
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in pharmacy or related medical field
- Advanced degree (MBA, Health Economics, or equivalent)
- Minimum 7 years pharmaceutical industry experience
- At least 4 years focused on market access, payer engagement, or reimbursement in Saudi Arabia
- Demonstrated track record securing reimbursement outcomes across Saudi governmental accounts
- Prior experience managing or leading a field-based team
- Deep knowledge of the Saudi healthcare system, reimbursement pathways, and market dynamics
- Strong negotiation skills and ability to engage senior payers and decision-makers
- Proven ability to translate clinical and economic evidence into payer-facing value propositions
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes comprehensive medical with robust mental‑health networks, plus dental and vision options, and coverage for infertility/family‑building and transgender‑affirming care. Recent U.S. summaries name mental‑health partners and outline multiple plan choices.
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Retirement Support — The retirement program provides a 401(k) with company match plus an additional employer Retirement Savings Contribution, along with financial‑planning support and company‑paid life and disability insurance. These elements are highlighted as part of the core U.S. package.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is described as up to 26 weeks in the U.S. when combining paid non‑medical parental leave with medical recovery where applicable, with exact pay and weeks dependent on circumstances and plan elections. Family‑building support includes egg preservation, adoption, and surrogacy coverage.
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