Global Value and Access Director

WHO WE ARE ☝🏼

We are the company (formerly MAP Patient Access, Axtalis, and SKC), a pan-European specialist consultancy that partners with ambitious health technology developers through the complex journey to achieve successful market access across Europe, with our tailored approach, global perspective and local expertise.

Our clients in healthcare and life sciences are leading innovators in pharma, biotech, medtech, digital health, and diagnostics. As part of the company, we support the successful launch and reimbursement of breakthrough therapies and technologies.

Join our team and help shape the future of the cutting-edge healthcare solutions. At the company, we cultivate a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture where every voice matters. We value diversity, openness, and integrity - encouraging our team members to bring their ideas and passion to work every day. Become part of a supportive, dynamic team that thrives on innovation, lifelong learning, and making a meaningful impact in healthcare and life sciences.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR 🔍

The Value and Access Director leads the company’s value and access capability, providing strategic, commercial and people leadership across HTA, reimbursement, value communications, stakeholder engagement and policy strategy. Acting as a senior advisor to clients, the role ensures payer and HTA perspectives are embedded throughout product strategy, evidence generation and value communication.

Key Responsibilities

The Value and Access Director leads the company’s value and access capability, providing strategic, commercial and people leadership across HTA, reimbursement, value communications, stakeholder engagement and policy strategy. Acting as a senior advisor to clients, the role ensures payer and HTA perspectives are embedded throughout product strategy, evidence generation and value communication.

Essential Requirements

Technical expertise

• Significant experience in global, regional or affiliate Value and Access / Market Access / HTA / Pricing & Reimbursement / Value Communications / Medical Writing, within consultancy, pharmaceutical or biotech settings.

• Strong understanding of payer evidence requirements, HTA processes, pricing and reimbursement pathways, policy environments and healthcare systems.

• Proven experience leading or senior-reviewing value communications, global value dossiers, value propositions, payer materials, HTA dossiers, objection handlers, advisory board materials and medical writing outputs.

• Ability to interpret clinical, economic, epidemiological, humanistic and stakeholder evidence and translate it into strategic, payer-relevant recommendations.

• Experience across multiple therapy areas and lifecycle stages, from early pipeline and pre-launch through launch, HTA submission, negotiation, managed access and post-launch.

Leadership & people development

• Proven experience leading and developing teams in a consultancy, market access, value communications or medical writing environment.

• Strong coaching capability, with a focus on strategic judgement, technical confidence, writing quality and client-ready communication.

• Ability to set standards and ensure consistent, high-quality delivery across geographies, levels and projects.

• Experience building capability through training, playbooks, quality standards, senior review and practical ways of working.

Commercial acumen

• Ability to scope, price and deliver complex Value and Access projects profitably, balancing commercial drivers, delivery risk and resource requirements.

• Experience in business development, proposals, pitches, account growth and long-term client relationships.

• Ability to identify market opportunities, shape services and contribute to practice strategy and commercial planning.

• Understanding of how scope, senior review, writing quality, resourcing and client expectations affect profitability and client satisfaction.

Communication & stakeholder management

• Exceptional written and verbal communication, with the ability to simplify complex access, policy, clinical and economic issues.

• Experience presenting to senior clients, cross-functional teams, payer advisory boards, policy/clinical experts and leadership teams.

• Ability to influence, challenge constructively, negotiate and build trust.

• Strong facilitation skills for workshops, advisory boards and complex strategic discussions.

• Strong editorial judgement and ability to ensure written outputs are clear, accurate, strategically aligned and audience-appropriate.

Personal attributes

• Strategic and pragmatic, with a hands-on approach to problem-solving and delivery.

• Commercially minded, accountable and able to exercise sound judgement.

• Collaborative, adaptable and comfortable operating in ambiguity.

• Committed to quality, professionalism, integrity and continuous improvement.

• Able to balance delivery excellence, people development, client impact, writing quality and commercial performance as a senior capability leader.

Desirable Requirements

• Strong understanding of national and international healthcare systems, including HTA, pricing/reimbursement, payer decision-making, policy and access constraints.

• Experience managing multidisciplinary teams spanning Value & Access, HEOR, evidence synthesis, pricing, policy, stakeholder research, medical writing or related disciplines.

• Experience shaping new processes, standards, service offerings and ways of working in a growing consultancy.

• Experience building or scaling a Value & Access, Market Access, HTA, Value Communications, Medical Writing or evidence-generation capability.

• External profile through conferences, publications, client networks, policy/payer/HTA forums, training, webinars or thought leadership.

• Experience across multiple geographies, therapy areas and product types, including rare diseases, oncology, ATMPs, specialty medicines, managed access and complex launches.

WHAT CAN WE OFFER YOU? 🤩

💰 Competitive Salary (dependent on experience).

🎁 Extensive benefit programme.

👥 Company-wide meet-ups.

🌍 International work environment with cross-border responsibilities.

🌴 Generous annual leave entitlement – 3 of those will be used for our Christmas shutdown.

⭐️ Flexible working – to help maintain a better work/life balance.

We bring together diverse backgrounds and expertise, and our team is dynamic, solutions-focused, and committed to delivering excellence. If you are a results-driven professional looking for an opportunity to gain experience in a growing life sciences organisation, then please apply!

Please note that this role is open to full-time applicants only. We do not accept applications from recruitment agencies and, unfortunately, are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position.