Senior Manager, Market Access, JAPAC

Roles & Responsibilities

Building trusted partnerships is an essential way we work together to deliver meaningful impact to patients' lives. The Market Access function is a strategic and multidisciplinary role dedicated to enabling our innovative medical technologies to be accessible, reimbursable, and adopted by healthcare providers. Your work will not simply focus on improving access; together with talented team members, you'll contribute to better health outcomes for patients across the globe.

How you will make an impact:

• Coordinating and optimizing market access strategies across JAPAC, aligning global BU and GHER objectives with local needs to ensure optimal product funding, reimbursement/payment, and patient access.

• Empowering local teams with resources, tools, and expertise to improve market access success in individual countries, and helping to shape and maintain regional policies that reward and value innovation.

• Drive alignment across countries from evidence generation, evidence dissemination and pricing & reimbursement to ensure the optimal market access strategy for each of Edwards Lifesciences current and pipeline technologies at the regional level:

> Coordinate and implement regional market access initiatives partnering with local and JAPAC cross functional teams and resources.

> Convey global BU/GHER strategies, product pipelines, and best practices to country MA/GA leads, and communicate country-level evidence/dossier requirements to the global team (upstream).

> Work in collaboration with the GHER team to develop regional innovative health economic strategies, value assessment tools, and economic evaluations of new technology.

> Monitor changes in the health policy and funding environment for the assigned BU & portfolio at the regional level.

> Develop and support a comprehensive understanding of the external market access environment and policy process, Health Technology Assessment organizations (HTA), and healthcare decision-maker environment relevant to assigned BU responsibilities.

> Serve as the regional contact person for GHER and other global business partners for market access-related activities for JAPAC, and work in coordination with country market access and government affairs teams to accomplish objectives.

• Market Access Stakeholder relationship and management:

> Establish, maintain and strengthen a network of contacts with market access stakeholders including payers, HTA bodies and procurement agencies specific to assigned BU responsibilities.

> Support local country-level engagement and leverage regional efforts to drive the market access initiatives/agenda of interest specific to the assigned BU.

> Work with designated trade and business associations on political, legislative, regulatory and communications issues of importance to the company in country and/or JAPAC region.

• Work in collaboration with JAPAC Public Affairs and Global Public Affairs, as well as cross-functional business partners on special strategic partnerships/projects.

• Other incidental duties

What you'll need (Required):

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in healthcare-related fields.

• Minimum of 8 years' experience of market access, health economics and reimbursement, outcomes research or relevant fields.

• Experience with market access environment and ability to effectively communicate and incorporate regional requirements in overall strategic plans.

• Strong business acumen and analytical skills to provide insight into key market access issues.

• Ability to develop strategy, drive execution, and deliver results.

What else we look for (Preferred):

• Communicate complicated matters in a simple, structured way to internal and external stakeholders.

• Proven successful project management skills.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

• Self-motivated, goal-oriented with high level of energy.

• Flexibility to collaborate with other corporate functional groups, internal and external.

• Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control.

Tell employers what skills you have

Lifesciences
Management Skills
Analytical Skills
Public Affairs
Healthcare
Business Acumen
Health Policy
Upstream
Market Access
Economics
Environmental Health
Procurement
Prevention
Evidence
Pricing
Retirement

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