Private Payer Manager

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.