Apac Health Economics and Market Access Director

**APAC HEALTH ECONOMICS AND MARKET ACCESS DIRECTOR (CSS)**

**OVERALL RESPONSIBILITIES**:
Health Economics & Market Access (HEMA) is a critical element of our market access strategies to ensure success in an increasingly challenging market environment. New regulations, a decision-making process where the clinician is no longer the only player, and a concept of value which is more and more based on evidence coming from clinical studies and derived economic value from our technologies and solutions, makes it a must that we equip ourselves with the required capabilities and convey a meaningful value-based message to our customers. Within this context, the purpose of this role is to be the APAC HEMA Director, partnering closely with country HEMA teams, Marketing, Medical Affairs, Clinical and other function colleagues to develop market access strategies to ensure access of our innovation and increase the adption of our innovation.

**POSITION DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Lead HEMA strategy development and execution of Cardiovascular & Specialty Solutions franchise portfolio for APAC countries and region:

- Unlock reimbursement and market access:

- Support countries’ reimbursement stategy development, submission and maintenance.
- Lead regional market access strategy development including reimbursement and access environment scanning, HTA development and requirements.
- Work closely with local market access and business on value substantiation for innovative access model, e.g. Value Based Healthcare, Innovative Access models, Outcomes-Based Agreements, and Value-Based Pricing initiatives as relevant.
- Gather external stakeholders’ insights through key strategic partnerships with key opinion leaders, societies and non-clinical stakeholders, and shape market access policies in APAC as needed.
- Shape innovation and strategy:

- Shape and influence global development and market access strategies, e.g. Target Product Profile, evidence generation plan to meet APAC needs.
- Evidence generation and dissemination:

- Lead and/or collaborate APAC HEMA evidence generation and dissemination strategy development and execution for Cardiovascular & Specialty Solutions to support access and adoption of our innovation.
- Disseminate regionally aproved HEMA tools and materials, translating complex messages into simple statements that can easily be articulated by commercial team.

Functional and Technical Competencies:

- Learning agility - quickly learn and understand new innovation such as digital health technology.
- Lead through ambiguity - be able to lead with ambiguous environment and develop scenario based plans.
- Understanding the internal and external environment - possese high level knowledge and insights from macro external environments, various healthcare systems and their trends, and internal environments in the APAC region.
- Applied skills and technical knowledge - possess relevant medical and scientific knowledge, critical analysis skills and Health Economics concepts, techniques.
- Persuasive communication - possess expert level competency in negotiation and communication upstream and downstream for both written and verbal communication.

Leadership Competencies:

- Connect: Ability to connect and quickly establish meaningful relationships to develop deep insights and empathetic understanding of internal and external stakeholders.
- Shape: Translate insights into meaningful value for internal and external customers.
- Grow: Consistenly take ownership of own outcomes to achieve results in a sustainable manner.

**Qualifications**
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS**:
Experience Required:

- Minimum 15 years of healthcare industry experience, with country level market access experience, preferably in Medical Devices.
- Proven expertise in developing local market access strategies to drive business.
- Understanding of health economics, marketing and/or market research, and formation of marketing solutions.
- Proven ability to identify evidence gaps, design and execute real world evidence generation and dissemination.
- Proven ability to understand business strategy; translate it into solutions that support the company’s business goals.
- Ability to manage multiple demands, with a systematic approach to prioritization and organization of resources.
- Proven leadership ability to effectively motivate project teams.
- Experience working successfully in matrix environments.
- Track record of working effectively to shape the market and influence key decision makers.
- Solid understanding of Healthcare market dynamics in Asia Pacific.

Education Required:

- Master Degree in a health sciences-related field (e.g., epidemiology, outcomes research, pharmacy, health policy, medical/biology sciences ) or;
- Masters degree in Health Economics or equivalent.
- Proficient language skills in English, both verbal and written.

**Primary Location**
Singapore-Singapore-Singapore
- **Organization**
Johnson & Johnson Pte.