Merck KGaA Posted October 8, 2026

Market Access Manager (all genders)

Brussels, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium FULL_TIME
Market Access Manager
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About this opportunity

Work Your Magic with us!

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.

Your role

As MAP & GAP Manager, you will help shape reliable market access, pricing and reimbursement outcomes across Belgium and Luxembourg. You will coordinate accurate, timely reimbursement and pricing submissions, ensuring that documentation, approvals and authority interactions are handled with care. You will monitor legislative and competitor developments and translate relevant changes into clear implications for the business. You will also own the end-to-end tender pipeline, from early opportunity identification and milestone planning through governance, submission and post-tender review. Working closely with Business Units, Finance, Supply Network Organization, Regulatory Affairs, Medical, Quality, Compliance and regional teams, you will turn complex inputs into decision-ready actions. You will prepare tender business cases with a clear view of pricing, profitability, supply, contractual and risk considerations. You will maintain transparent records, audit trails and trackers so that every critical decision and commitment can be followed through. In addition, you will support governmental affairs and policy activities through focused analysis, stakeholder intelligence and well-prepared engagement. Your structured, proactive approach will help protect patient access, compliance and business quality while continuously improving local processes.

Who you are

You have at lea st  3-5  years of experience in a pharmaceutical environment, market access, pricing, reimbursement, tender management or a closely related function.

You hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, ideally in life sciences, economics, health economics, business, pharmacy or a related discipline.

You have experience with pricing and reimbursement submissions and with implementing administrative or cross-functional processes.

You bring working knowledge of the Belgian and Luxembourg  pricing, reimbursement and tender environments, or the ability to build this knowledge quickly and accurately.

You are professionally fluent in English, Dutch & French are nice to haves

You understand the financial and profitability parameters relevant to tender and market access decisions.

You work confidently with Microsoft Word, Excel, structured databases and tracking systems, and can create concise status updates, timelines and decision-ready summaries.

You are accurate, accountable and process-minded, with strong planning, prioritisation, communication and follow-through, sound ethical judgement and a commitment to compliance, confidentiality and quality.

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!

Job details

Seniority
Manager
Function
Market Access
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Brussels, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
Employment type
FULL_TIME

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Market Access role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 308 comparable Manager Market Access roles across 55 biopharma companies.

308Comparable roles tracked
282Currently active
55Companies hiring similar roles
36Countries represented

Salary context

100 of 308 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Lowest disclosed · Global Market Access Summer Associate · Johnson & Johnson $34/hr – $53/hr (≈ $70,720–$109,200/yr)
Peer group range $89,960 – $229,000 (median $187,600)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 308 comparable roles

United States172
India24
China11
Germany10
Taiwan8
United Kingdom6

+ 30 more countries

Seniority mix

308 of 308 peers have a known seniority level

Manager232
Associate Director59
Associate17

Therapeutic area mix

82 of 308 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology37
Neuroscience25
Dermatology & Aesthetics11
Rare Disease4
Immunology2
Gastroenterology2
Ophthalmology1

Similar opportunities

The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.

60%similar
GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals SA Belgium-Wavre, Belgium Manager
Same function Same seniority Same country
45%similar
Regeneron Japan KK Tokyo, Japan Manager
Same function Same seniority
45%similar
P.T. Glaxo Wellcome Indonesia Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia Manager
Same function Same seniority
45%similar
Amgen USA Inc. Remote, United States Manager
Same function Same seniority
45%similar
Novartis Hyderabad (Office), India Manager
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Novartis Hyderabad (Office), India Manager
Same function Same seniority

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How we calculate "similar"

No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.

Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.

60%
Market Access Manager
GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals SA · Belgium-Wavre, Belgium · Manager
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
45%
Patient Access and Advocacy Manager
P.T. Glaxo Wellcome Indonesia · Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia · Manager
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
45%
Manager, Market Access-V&A
Novartis · Hyderabad (Office), India · Manager
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
45%
Access Field Manager
Novartis · Beijing (Beijing), China · Manager
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
Unmatched or unknown dimensions score exactly the same: 0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.