Market Access

**Market Access & Pricing Manager, SEA & India**

Location: any locations in SEA and India

J&J Innovative Medicines is looking for a Market Access (MA) & Pricing Manager for the South East Asia - India region, reporting to the Market Access & Pricing Associate Director.

This role combines responsibilities for both pricing and access and is thus accountable for delivering and executing integrated market access and pricing strategies for products or disease aligned to the priorities of the relevant cross-functional team.

The MA Manager provides strategic market access and pricing leadership at the TA and brand level, expertly representing the MA function within the XFT, building strong relationships and effective collaboration with commercial and medical partners at the regional and local level. The MA Manager will shape the XFT agenda and decision-making to ensure that strategic plans fully meet the needs of market access in all SEA-I countries.

The MA Manager is responsible for representing SEA-I in brand level interactions with AP and / or Global Market Access and Pricing to provide input that shapes the development of regional brand value propositions; developing, assessing, and seeking approval for pricing business cases arising from the SEA-I region and working collaboratively with the SEA-I Pricing TA Lead and the AP team to review the pricing cases with Global.

The MA Manager will collaborate through the functional network and the XFT model with SEA-I operating company Market Access managers to deliver timely, optimal access in a highly challenging environment across a diverse region with complex and differing needs.

The MA Manager must understand the needs of countries across SEA-I and work with the local team and AP to develop appropriate solutions for access, both through the reimbursed channel and self-pay avenues.

**POSITION DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Lead the market access strategy for the brand(s)**
- The MA Manager is a core member of the XFT and as such will take an accountable, proactive role in shaping SEA-I brand strategy both within and outside of the area of functional responsibility, demonstrating an ability to contribute broadly to strategy decisions
- Take a leadership role in representing the needs of the MA function at the XFT, bringing a strategic mindset and collaborative approach to ensuring that strategic plans and investment decisions meet the needs of market access in SEA-I
- Fully engage in key XFT processes, shaping the thinking and bringing a payer and patient perspective to creation of BPs, financial planning (LRFP and BP) and regional evidence generation planning such as Real World Evidence
- Lead development and delivering a full range of tools that support optimal market access (reimbursed / self-pay) across SEA-I, including the optimal design of patient access programs
- Maintain a deep understanding of diverse and complex market access and reimbursement processes across the region and bring this knowledge and insight into the strategic thinking of the XFT
- Take budgetary responsibility for defining and managing the MA TA budgets, making sure that spending is managed effectively throughout the year and to plan

**Lead Market Access strategy development ensuring strategic alignment across countries**
- Lead the AP MA functional network, bringing the Operating Company view into XFT discussions and collaborating with countries on the creation of market access tools and deliverables
- Partner with SEA-I pricing manager, AP and Global colleagues on the execution of payer research and the needs of SEA-I
- Take accountability to create and implement innovative access model frameworks that secure pricing and access across countries and meet the needs of our self-pay and reimbursed markets
- Take accountability for launch readiness for the brand making sure that markets have the tools they require, such as the value story, value messages, budget impact tools and cost-consequence/ health economic models (if required) as well as guidance on pricing, Patient access programs and pricing models
- Keep up to date with scientific developments, bringing the latest techniques and analyses to build the strongest possible value proposition
- Take the lead in commissioning and managing evidence generation projects that fall within the remit of MA, such as database analyses and patient surveys and partner effectively with medical affairs to develop compelling RWE and clinical studies that support market access
- Understand the patient perspective of the disease and recommend patient reported outcome measure and studies than can support the patient voice in key payer negotiations
- Develop deep expertise into the clinical area of responsibility, gaining a deep understanding of treatment pathways and the pathology of the disease
- Engage with local market access teams frequently and regularly. Foster excellent working relationships and collaboration with the AP Regional team as we