Value & Access and Public Affairs Head, Levant

Novartis is recruiting a Value & Access and Public Affairs Head for the Levant, based in Jordan. The role develops market-access strategies, strengthens the value case for payers and prepares evidence that supports reimbursement and patient access to treatment.

Working with the regional or executive director and country and international cross-functional teams, the role develops and implements access solutions for strategic disease areas within Neuroscience. It focuses on priority geographic markets, relevant health technology assessment frameworks and budget-impact considerations.

Strategy and partnerships

• Develop and execute access strategies for compounds and brands across the research, development and commercial continuum, alongside international therapeutic-area teams and Access Directors.
• Translate scientific evidence into value propositions and solutions for payers and healthcare systems, supporting availability, affordability, broad patient access and efficiency at scale.
• Represent Access with internal partners and external stakeholders. Provide specialist support across the international, regional and country Access community and to partners in development, biomedical research, operations, strategy and growth.
• Work with therapeutic-area teams, Medical Affairs, Development and Biomedical Research to strengthen value propositions, access strategies and access-relevant evidence packages.
• Co-develop international pricing strategy and guidance with commercial and Pricing teams.
• Build internal and external partnerships across the value chain to improve collaboration and help shape healthcare and markets.
• Work with Strategy & Growth and Development to maintain consistent approaches to product shaping, value propositions and healthcare-system value creation that support access.

Operational responsibilities

• Maintain an integrated product-access strategy throughout the product lifecycle. Clearly define the differentiation relevant to payers, patients and healthcare-system stakeholders, including target populations, clinical endpoints, comparators, outcome measures, utility instruments and health-economic data.
• Support country teams in payer negotiations and deliver the materials they need on time.
• Ensure Access considerations are reflected in target product profiles, clinical programmes and integrated evidence plans, business-development and licensing assessments, asset maximisation and indication sequencing.
• Identify evidence beyond registration studies that medical experts and reimbursement and access institutions require in key markets.
• Work with Health Economics and Outcomes Research and Patient-Centred Outcomes teams to integrate appropriate evidence and deliverables into high-quality strategies across product franchises.
• Manage the Access community and budgets.
• Report technical complaints, adverse events and special-case scenarios relating to Novartis products within 24 hours of receipt.
• Distribute marketing samples where applicable.

Performance measures

• Reimbursement and listing status, price against targets, and time to reimbursement or access.
• Revenue and market availability or access.
• Management of relevant local systems and processes to optimise patient access.

Desired skills

Analytical thinking; cross-functional collaboration; employee development; finance; health economics; health technology assessment; innovation; inspirational leadership; people, process and project management; public affairs; real-world evidence; regulatory compliance; risk management; and value propositions.

Employment details and application

• Location: Jordan. The employer does not specify a city or governorate.
• Full time, regular employment, with no shift work.
• Division: International. Business unit: General Management. Functional area: Market Access.
• Employer legal entity: JOP0 (FCRS = CH024) NPHS RO Jordan.
• Requisition: REQ-10084745. Published: 4 August 2026.

Apply online through Novartis’s recruitment portal using the application button. The vacancy does not state an application deadline, salary, vacancy count, specific degree requirement or minimum years of experience. General benefits and rewards information is available in the employer’s employee handbook; the listing does not specify monetary benefits for this role.