Senior Market Access Director - Rare Growth Disorders - Europe & International

Are you ready to lead Europe and International market access strategies and develop compelling value messages for innovative therapies? At Ascendis, you’ll play a key role in shaping the value communication platform for Navepegritide, driving cross-functional collaboration, and ensuring best-in-class pricing and access strategies. If you have a passion for market access and value demonstration, this is the role for you.

Ascendis Pharma is a fast-growing biopharmaceutical company with locations in Denmark, United States and Commercial offices in Munich, Madrid, Milan, London and Paris.

We are applying our TransCon® technology to build a leading, fully integrated biopharmaceutical company focused on making a meaningful difference in patients’ lives. Guided by our core values of patients, science, and passion, we use our TransCon® drug development platform to fulfill our mission of developing new and potentially best-in-class therapies to address unmet medical needs. Today, we have a growing pipeline of product therapies in development, each designed to be a best-in-class therapy.

The role

This position is focused on leading the European and International process to identify, analyze, and create all value messages and demonstration tools, establishing the foundational communication platform for Navepegritide's value proposition. You will oversee country submissions, ensuring alignment with European and International market access and pricing strategies. As a representative of Europe & International Market Access & Pricing, you will collaborate with various cross-functional teams, including Global Brand and Program Teams, to ensure access requirements and ambitions are integrated across key projects such as brand development, go-to-market strategies, forecasting, and communication efforts. This role also involves peer leadership and training to embed access considerations throughout the organization. Ultimately, you will become a leading authority on Market Access and Value Messaging within Ascendis, providing expert guidance and ensuring the successful market positioning of Navepegritide.

It is a requirement that you are based in one of the countries and cities where we operate in Europe—Copenhagen, Munich, Madrid, Milan, London, or Paris—while reporting to the VP and Head of Market Access & Pricing, Europe & International.

Your key responsibilities will be

• Peer-leading cross-functional efforts into building convincing value stories ensuring the break-through TransCon® based therapies’ innovative accommodation of severe medical unmet needs is clear across health care systems’ stakeholders
• Represent Europe & International Market Access & Pricing in Global Brand and Program Teams
• Lead global Navepegritide pricing, value driver and funding research projects
• Work closely with HEOR to ensure countries have the necessary health economic modeling for P&R submissions and value demonstration
• Own Global Value Dossiers, value demonstration tools
• Ensure country P&R submissions are best in class and represent the true value of our assets
• Directly engage with payers and KOLs to foster collaborative efforts in making access for our break-through therapies
• Become Go-To-Person for affiliates in concrete access projects and negotiations

Qualifications and skills

• A minimum of 10-15 years of international/European experience in market access, value communication, and value demonstration
• Ideally a scientific or health economic educational background combined with years of hands-on both affiliate and/or regional/global market access experience incl. proven success stories in bringing important medical advances to patients with unmet needs

Key competencies

This role requires a unique blend of strong analytical, commercial, and social skills to navigate complex market access challenges and opportunities. You will need to demonstrate a keen ability to analyze data, understand market dynamics, and apply commercial strategies while maintaining a collaborative and engaging approach with stakeholders across the business. A high level of energy and determination will be crucial, as you will be expected to actively pursue and facilitate innovative access arrangements that benefit not only Ascendis but also patients and healthcare systems. Your ability to balance persistence with pragmatism will allow you to overcome obstacles and ensure that these access strategies are successfully implemented and aligned with the company's goals.

Apply now

Applications will be evaluated when received, so please apply as soon as possible. Please note that we only accept applications submitted through our online application system. Applications sent via email will not be considered.

If you are passionate about contributing to the field of rare diseases and eager to make a difference at Ascendis Pharma, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity. Join us in our mission to advance therapeutic innovations and improve patient lives worldwide.