Healthcare Partnership Manager

About the role

As a Healthcare Partnership Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and driving our relationships with key NHS customers, strategic organisations, and healthcare networks across the UK.

You will develop payer engagement strategies informed by deep insight into the evolving NHS landscape and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure patient access to our medicines. This is an opportunity to create meaningful partnerships that deliver win–win solutions — improving patient outcomes, supporting the NHS, and advancing Sobi’s mission to make rare disease therapies accessible to those who need them most.

The position will require travel across the UK depending upon priorities and business needs, reporting to Patient Access and Community Engagement Director, UK and RoI

Your impact will include:

• Build and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with key NHS stakeholders and strategic networks, with a particular focus on Integrated Care Systems (ICS).
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive stakeholder and influencer map aligned with Sobi’s portfolio objectives.
• Ensure optimal patient access to Sobi’s medicines by driving appropriate positioning and prescribing across patient pathways, formularies, and clinical guidelines.
• Support healthcare professionals and payers in service development and redesign projects that improve patient diagnosis and treatment outcomes.
• Partner with the Patient Access and Medical teams to develop payer materials, health outcome initiatives, and service improvement programmes.
• Gather and share insights with internal teams to inform brand and access strategies, influencing above-brand initiatives.
• Work cross-functionally to shape account plans and identify new opportunities for collaboration within a complex healthcare environment.
• Proactively respond to the changing NHS landscape by developing innovative partnership programs that reinforce Sobi’s role as a trusted healthcare partner.
• Lead and deliver joint or collaborative working projects with NHS organisations to enhance patient care and outcomes.
• Act as a role model for Sobi’s core values — Care, Ambition, Urgency, Partnership, and Ownership — in everything you do.

About you

You are a strategic and relationship-driven professional who thrives in a complex healthcare environment. With a deep understanding of the NHS and a passion for improving patient outcomes, you excel at connecting insights, people, and opportunities. You are confident navigating policy, commissioning, and access landscapes, and you bring a collaborative spirit that drives meaningful change.

You are motivated by purpose and results — equally comfortable engaging senior NHS leaders as you are working cross-functionally to deliver tangible outcomes for patients and the healthcare system.

Key talents and experience

• In-depth knowledge of the NHS healthcare system, including structure, policy, and decision-making processes — particularly in rare diseases and high-cost drugs.
• Proven success delivering service redesign and development projects within or alongside the NHS.
• Field-based commercial experience with demonstrated ability to work within cross-functional account teams.
• Track record of influencing policy, pathways, and guidelines at both regional and national levels.
• Excellent organisational, planning, and project management skills with the ability to prioritise effectively.
• Collaborative, solutions-oriented approach with strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Strategic mindset with the agility to adapt to an evolving environment.
• Experience within rare diseases or cardiology and nephrology would be preferred.

Here at Sobi we live by our core values: Care, Ambition, Urgency, Ownership and Partnership!

How to apply

We have an ongoing selection process in this recruitment and ask you to send your application as soon as possible. Click apply and include your resume in English. 

Why Join Us?

Here at Sobi, our mission and culture get us excited to come to work every day, but here are a few more reasons to join our team:

• Emphasis on work/life balance
• Collaborative and team-oriented environment
• Opportunities for professional growth
• Diversity and Inclusion
• Competitive compensation for your work
• Making a positive impact to help ultra-rare disease patients who are in need of life saving treatments

We are a global company with over 1,900 employees in more than 30 countries and are committed to the societies where we operate. With a deeply skilled management team directing our day-to-day wins, and a Board with a stellar track record, we’re ready to take on the world’s diseases, ailments and adversity. Our people believe they have the power to make a positive impact in others’ lives because that’s exactly what we do here. If you’re seeking a career that taps into your talents in a way that makes the world a better, healthier place, we just may have a job for you.

We know our employees are our most valuable asset, and our culture conveys that. We offer a competitive benefits package, to support the health and happiness of our staff.

Sobi Culture

At Sobi, we refuse to accept the status quo. This is because we have witnessed first-hand the challenges facing those affected by rare diseases and have used this knowledge to shape our business to find new ways of helping them.

As a specialized biopharmaceutical company, we are dedicated to rare diseases. And we see this focus as a strength. By effectively turning our research into ground-breaking treatments, we help make medicine more accessible and open up more possibilities for patients and more opportunities for those caring for them. This has been our approach since day one, but we know we can’t change the world of rare diseases on our own. Accomplishing this requires strong partnerships with patients, partners and stakeholders across the entire value chain. Together, we define how our business can create solutions that serve the needs of those affected by rare diseases while facilitating sustainable growth.