Job Description

Work Your Magic with us! Start your next chapter and join EMD Serono.

Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.

United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.

This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.

Your Role:

In your role as Private Payer Manager, you sit at the intersection of strategy, access, and patient impact — driving conversations and progress that ensure Canadians living with serious conditions can access the innovative therapies they need. This is a role where your work translates directly into better outcomes for patients across the country.

Responsibilities:

• Build trusted relationships with senior decision-makers across the private payer ecosystem and engaging strategically with employers, benefit advisors, and consultants to champion benefit designs that reduce barriers and open doors for patients who might otherwise go without.
• Lead the negotiation and execution of complex product listing agreements that translate directly into expanded access to therapies for patients who need them most.
• Stay ahead of shifts in private payer policies and market access environments, anticipate obstacles before they impact patients, advocate proactively for coverage solutions, and represent our commitment to patients in external payer forums and industry associations.

Who You Are

Minimum Qualifications:

• You are someone who has built a career in the payer space and knows this world from the inside — whether within a payer or in payer relations in the pharmaceutical or life sciences industry.
• Minimum of 5 years of direct experience and a proven track record of negotiating complex product listing agreements, earning the trust of senior stakeholders, and finding pathways forward that translate into real access for patients.
• Must be willing to travel up to 40% and have a valid driver’s licence.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bilingual proficiency in English and French is preferred
• Experience in rare diseases is a meaningful asset.

This is a new position.

Pay Range for this position: $129,500 - 163,600

Should we decide to make an offer, we will consider several factors, including but not limited to your skills, experience, career level, and other job-related factors. This role may offer the following benefits: health, vision, and dental coverage; life insurance; disability; a Defined Contribution Pension Plan program; paid time off; and paid holidays; among other employee benefits. This role may also be eligible for short-term or long-term incentive compensation, including, but not limited to, cash bonuses. We use AI in the process of screening, assessing and/or selecting applicants. Further details on how we use AI in our recruitment process can be found here

What we offer: We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe that this variety drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!

Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!