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Global Market Access Director, ViiV Pipeline

18th Month Fixed Term Contract

ViiV Healthcare is the global leader in scientific innovation in HIV, with a singular focus on developing new treatment and prevention options that patients and communities are waiting for. Our ambition is bold: to help end the HIV epidemic while ensuring no person is left behind, regardless of geography, health system, or circumstance.

Pricing and Market Access (P&MA) are critical to realising the full potential of ViiV Healthcare's pipeline of transformational HIV innovations for people living with, or at risk of, HIV, healthcare systems, and society.

This is a highly strategic opportunity for a Global Market Access Director, ViiV Pipeline, to shape the market access strategy for a dynamic HIV pipeline, including long‑acting therapies, novel mechanisms, prevention innovations, and future treatment paradigms. The role is pivotal in ensuring that payer, HTA, and policy expectations are embedded early, enabling timely, equitable, and sustainable access through comprehensive value recognition at launch and beyond.

The vision of the Global Pricing and Market Access team is to be the industry leader in enabling patient access to life‑changing medicines. In this role, you will act as a strategic partner in the cross-functional early commercialisation team including, R&D, Commercial Strategy, Health Outcomes externally anticipating payer and policy expectations, and internally influencing asset strategy, evidence generation, and value communication to maximise the future impact of ViiV's pipeline.

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Lead the Global Pricing and Market Access Strategy for ViiV Healthcare's HIV pipeline, with a clear focus on pre‑launch and launch‑readiness activities across treatment and prevention assets.

• Shape early access strategy by embedding payer, HTA, and policy requirements into target product profiles (TPPs), development plans, and indication sequencing.

• Assess pricing and reimbursement potential across priority markets identifying risks, opportunities, and evidence needs well ahead of launch.

• Inform and influence evidence generation strategy, ensuring alignment with future payer and HTA expectations, including clinical endpoints, comparators, real‑world evidence, and health economic outcomes.

• Develop Global Payer Value propositions that articulate the clinical, economic, and societal value of pipeline innovations.

• Provide market access leadership within Integrated Asset Planning, ensuring access considerations are central to development decision‑making and portfolio prioritisation.

• Partner closely with Global Medical, Regulatory, Commercial, Government Affairs, Insights, Health outcomes teams to align on future stakeholder needs in the evolving HIV landscape.

• Represent the payer and market access perspective on Early Commercial Teams for pipeline assets.

• Anticipate future policy, funding, and health system dynamics, including prevention strategies, public health programmes, and innovative contracting models relevant to HIV.

• Develop and deploy tools, frameworks, and guidance to prepare Regions and LOCs for future launches, ensuring consistent and high‑quality access planning.

• Manage external partners and vendors supporting pipeline access workstreams, delivering outputs on time and within budget, in line with governance requirements.

Why You?

We will love your high accountability for impact performance, your ambition for patients and strategic curiosity, and your collaboration and influence abilities. Your passion for our mission and purpose of getting ahead of HIV together will enthuse us! How you work is as important as what you deliver.

Hybrid working applies to this role with the expectation of 2/3 days a week onsite

Basic Qualifications

• Significant experience in Pricing and Market Access, including LOC delivery and a strong focus on pipeline, early‑stage, or pre‑launch strategy.

• Demonstrated success in shaping global or regional access strategies particularly for innovative, differentiated medicines.

• Deep understanding of HTA, payer decision‑making, pricing policy, and reimbursement systems across major markets.

• Strong knowledge of how regulatory and development decisions influence future access and value.

• Degree qualified in Science, Medicine, Health Economics, Health Policy, or Business.

• Proven ability to influence cross‑functional teams and senior stakeholders, in a complex, matrix environment and ability to partner with LOCs for success.

• Strong analytical, strategic thinking, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or Master's degree in a scientific, economic, or health‑related discipline (e.g. Health Economics).

• Experience in HIV, infectious diseases, prevention, or specialty medicines.

• Experience in long‑acting therapies, novel modalities, and shaping highly innovative development programmes.

• Experience in successfully evolving HTA/payer criteria to capture additional value elements.

How to Apply

If you are ready to shape access for future medicines and help patients gain timely treatment, we would like to hear from you. Please apply via our online portal with your CV and a short cover letter describing your most relevant experience and why this role matters to you. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We are committed to inclusion and support a workplace where everyone can bring their best.

18th Month Fixed Term Contract/Secondment

Closing Date: 24th March 2026

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Why Us?

At ViiV Healthcare, we will not rest until we leave no person living with HIV behind. Until the 40 million people living with HIV is down to zero, we will continue searching for new ways to limit the impact of HIV. 

We are the only pharmaceutical company solely focused on combating, preventing, and ultimately eradicating HIV and AIDS. At ViiV Healthcare, we do things differently. Born out of a partnership between GSK and Pfizer in 2009, with Shionogi joining in 2012, we are determined to help end the HIV epidemic. We are guided by our mission to leave no person living with HIV behind and it is this mission that unites our employees located across the globe. We combine expertise in research, manufacturing, policy and more to push the boundaries of what people think is possible in HIV treatment and care. As a result of our connection with GSK, we are able to draw on their proud history and resources. This means that you would receive all the employee benefits offered by GSK.

Living our mission of leaving no person living with HIV behind means keeping inclusion and diversity at the heart of everything we do - from our breakthrough innovation, to our diverse portfolio of medicines as well as the work we do to partner with HIV communities. Having a truly inclusive culture where we're all able to be ourselves and feel like we belong will make us an even stronger team, better able to perform as a business and deliver on our mission to leave no person living with HIV behind.

ViiV is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.

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ViiV does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact ViiV's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to ViiV. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and ViiV. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of ViiV. ViiV shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.

Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, ViiV may be required to capture and report expenses ViiV incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure ViiV's compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. For more information, please visit the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/