Senior Director, Market Access, International

BridgeBio Pharma · Zug

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Who We Are 

BridgeBio is a global biotechnology company with our Global Headquarters located in San Francisco, USA, and our International HQ located in Zug, Switzerland. Since establishing our European presence in 2021, we’ve been building empowered, high-performing teams across countries — with experienced colleagues who move quickly, take ownership, and are fueling the company’s international growth. 

At BridgeBio, you’ll find an energetic and collaborative culture where pragmatism meets bold decision-making. We embrace uncertainty with confidence, guided by our commitment to making a meaningful impact for patients. Our people are trusted and empowered, united by urgency, purpose, and the drive to advance science for patients around the world. 

To learn more about our story and company culture, visit us at https://bridgebio.com

What You’ll Do

You will report to the VP, Head of Market Access, International and work closely with international Market Access, regional brand team, and heads or markets access in BridgeBio clusters as well as with field-based colleagues across multiple geographies, to drive strategic initiatives that support BridgeBio’s mission of delivering transformative medicines to patients globally.

Your primary purpose will be to secure timely, sustainable patient access to the company’s products by shaping the value narrative, and leading pricing and reimbursement strategies and execution across multiple international markets. This includes oversight of related dossiers, negotiations, and cost coverage approaches. In this role you ensure alignment of Market Access ambitions with clinical value and global pricing interdependencies.

You will also be a core member of the International Market Access team, contributing to global decision-making and ensuring alignment across regions while representing diverse market perspectives.

This role requires strong collaboration with cross-functional colleagues and external stakeholders across multiple countries to ensure high-quality execution and impact. The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in Market Access processes across several international markets and experience introducing innovative therapies in a global biotech environment. You are eager to make a meaningful contribution in pre-launch and launch phases, particularly within rare diseases and orphan conditions, and bring strong communication skills, adaptability, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, hands-on environment.

Responsibilities

• Represent the payer perspective within cross-functional, cross-regional commercialization teams thereby optimizing pricing and market access of the asset.
• Closely collaborate with HEOR and clusters' leadership teams, Marketing and Clinical Development counterparts to ensure value and access optimization for the asset.
• Lead early payer engagement with key HTA/payer bodies (e.g. NICE UK, G-BA Germany) to inform evidence generation strategy, value proposition and reimbursement dossiers development.
• Interact with internal and external experts in pricing, health economics, patient advocacy, health technology assessment authorities, government policy makers and payers as required to execute Pricing & Reimbursement objectives.
• Provide hands-on support and train local access teams on negotiation strategy and ensure HTA and reimbursement submissions are aligned to the Global and International strategy.

Where You’ll Work 

This is an office role based and requires in-office collaboration 2-3x per week in our Zug Office.

 Who You Are

• Extensive experience leading HTA submissions and pricing negotiations across multiple international markets, ideally including Europe and other global regions, particularly in rare diseases and orphan conditions.
• Strong knowledge of international healthcare systems, pricing and reimbursement frameworks, and regulatory environments.
• Experience generating and leveraging data for HTA submissions and pricing negotiations, with a strong external network of agencies and stakeholders.
• Comfortable presenting at senior levels and engaging with external thought leaders globally.
• Proven experience managing complex, cross-functional and multicultural teams (including external partners).
• Knowledge of product commercialization processes with a hands-on, solution-oriented mindset for building scalable processes and documentation.

Rewarding Those Who Make the Mission Possible

We have high expectations for our team members. We make sure those working hard for patients are rewarded and cared for in return.

• Market leading compensation
• Hybrid work model - we value your flexibility in how you work, but encourage time in the office to strengthen our culture, collaboration, and sense of community
• We provide career development through regular feedback, continuous education and professional development programs
• We celebrate strong performance with financial rewards, peer-to-peer recognition, and growth opportunities.

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