Case study

Development & facilitation of a mock negotiation training to support pricing objectives

Client Situation

Our client has a focus on Achondroplasia treatment and was looking to prepare their sales teams for local negotiations.

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Project Scope

Supporting global client’s local affiliates in improving negotiations and value communication skills within a price negotiation setting

Focus Markets

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Solutions

    Organized a mock negotiation workshop involving client team, sales team and proxy payers

  • Observed the type of interactions and objections raised by payers, alongside feedback provided on the value story and the reimbursed price of a new product entrant in achondroplasia
  • Captured key takeaways from each round of mock sessions
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Results

  • Consolidated the key takeaways from the mock payer negotiations workshop focusing on the following points:
    ○ Payer objections and team’s responses to value story and targeted reimbursed price
    ○ Types of value based agreements that would support price and access, outside of pure discounts
  • Built sales teams confidence in conducting independent negotiations, resulted in a price discount of only c. 5% vs. expected 15% on the clients product within specific institutions