Healthcare Partnership Manager
Healthcare Partnership Manager – Rare Disease
Field Based Role, Location: Midlands, South West & Wales
We are building a new team of Healthcare Partnership Managers to support the launch of an innovative rare disease treatment across the UK.
This is an exciting opportunity to help establish a new HPM team, shape strategic healthcare partnerships, and support launch readiness across your territory. You'll develop a strong understanding of specialist patient pathways, build trusted relationships with clinicians and NHS stakeholders, identify barriers to diagnosis, referral, and treatment, and translate insights into strategic account plans that support patient access.
Working closely with Medical, Market Access, and cross-functional colleagues, you'll play a key role in ensuring successful launch preparation and helping appropriate patients gain access to treatment following approval.
What you'll be doing
- Build and execute strategic territory and account plans in preparation for and following the launch of a new rare disease treatment.
- Identify, map and prioritise key accounts, specialist centres and relevant healthcare stakeholders across your territory.
- Develop a deep understanding of rare disease patient pathways, including potential challenges around identification, diagnosis, referral, treatment and ongoing management.
- Build credible, long-term partnerships with specialist clinicians and relevant NHS decision-makers.
- Understand local and regional NHS priorities and identify barriers that could affect appropriate patient access.
- Use healthcare data, account intelligence and stakeholder insights to identify opportunities and inform account strategy.
- Work cross-functionally with Medical, Market Access and other colleagues to develop an aligned approach to launch readiness and priority accounts.
- Identify appropriate opportunities for partnership working that can support pathway or service improvement.
- Bring insights from the field back into the organisation, helping the wider team understand emerging opportunities, challenges and stakeholder needs.
- Contribute to establishing the culture, standards and ways of working of a newly formed HPM team.
- Maintain the highest standards of ethical and compliant working, operating in accordance with the ABPI Code and relevant company policies.
What you'll bring
Alongside strong strategic account-management capability, we're looking for people who are comfortable building something new.
Ideally, you'll bring:
- Strong experience of the UK pharmaceutical and NHS environment.
- Experience in rare disease, orphan medicines, specialist medicine or another complex secondary/tertiary-care environment.
- Demonstrable success in strategic account management, healthcare partnership working or a comparable customer-facing role.
- Experience engaging specialist clinicians and senior NHS stakeholders.
- A strong understanding of complex patient pathways and the ability to identify barriers and opportunities across them.
- Experience preparing a territory or accounts for a new product launch would be highly advantageous.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to turn multiple sources of insight into clear account priorities.
- Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder-management skills.
- The confidence to work autonomously in a newly established role while collaborating closely with cross-functional colleagues.
- A curious, adaptable mindset and the resilience required to operate successfully in a fast-moving launch environment.
- ABPI qualification, where required, or the ability to achieve this within the appropriate timeframe.
- A full UK driving licence and willingness to travel across the territory.
Why this opportunity is different
Rather than inheriting an established territory and established ways of working, you'll have the opportunity to build your stakeholder network, develop a detailed understanding of the rare disease landscape and help shape how the HPM model operates.
For someone who combines strategic thinking with the energy to build relationships and create momentum, this is an opportunity to play a meaningful role in a rare disease launch and help establish a new national team.
Please note this role does not sponsor visa's.
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