Sr. Regional Access Manager

Edwards Lifesciences seeks a Senior Regional Access Manager to lead market access and public affairs strategy across Central and Southern Italy. The role involves building stakeholder networks, developing regional access strategies for structural heart disease innovations, and advocating for patient access within the Italian healthcare system.

Responsibilities

• Monitor healthcare policy, funding, HTA, and procurement changes; assess impact and recommend patient access strategies
• Identify and manage regional market access and health policy issues affecting structural heart disease portfolio
• Build and maintain networks with regional health authorities, payers, procurers, HTA bodies, and patient organizations
• Develop and execute regional access strategies for current and pipeline innovations with evidence-based value propositions
• Support cross-portfolio initiatives including procedure coding, DRG updates, quality indicators, and system-level access enablers

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in life sciences, political science, law, economics, or business with 10 years of market access experience; or Master's degree with 8 years relevant experience
• Demonstrated experience in market access or public affairs within Italian or regional European healthcare systems
• Stakeholder engagement experience with health authorities, payers, HTA bodies, medical societies, or patient organizations
• Knowledge of health economics, outcomes research, and value assessment for medical technologies
• Strong communication, negotiation, and influencing skills with senior internal and external stakeholders
• Fluency in English (written and spoken) and proficiency in Microsoft Office

Compensation: €75,000–€107,000 base (Italy, highly experienced)