Apma Value and Access Director

**Summary**:
4 The 4 essential elements that shape our culture: Inspired. Curious. Unbossed. Integrity. Our mission is to discover new ways to improve and extend peoples’ lives. Your passion to build, execute business plans to meet the sales goals, develop effective professional business relationships with Healthcare Professionals will help the world understand what these medicines do, why they matter and how Novartis is striving to reimagine medicine. The APMA Value and Access Director will create and support countries in implementing Access, Pricing and Healthcare Systems Strategies for prioritized innovative launch and pre-launch products across all Market Archetypes in APMA, focusing on Gene Therapy portfolio.

**About the Role**:
**Your Responsibilities**:
Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

- Develop and operationalize Value and Access strategies:

- Represent key countries to co-create International Value and Access strategies for Advanced, Aspiring and Emerging Markets
- Address key data gaps by providing input into the clinical development program
- Support the generation and analysis of Access Evidence and HE&OR
- Provide an early assessment on Pricing, Value and Access opportunities which are reflected in the Region strategic plans
- Co-develop a framework of Disruptive Access Models for each relevant brand
- Help countries in understanding the International/Regional strategies and practicing the implementation by facilitating Payer Mock Negotiation workshops
- Collaborate with related functions to ensure development and implementation of effective and innovative strategies and programs that create value for patients
- Align Integrated Product Access Strategies for Advanced Markets which will be tailored for other Market Archetypes
- Demonstrate well designed and implemented (external) healthcare system strategies for rare diseases aligned with business/access priorities
- Support implementation of access and healthcare system strategies in key countries / overseeing in-country pull through

**Minimum requirements**
- Degree in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Biomedical or other related discipline.
- At least 7 years pharmaceutical access and/or commercial experience successfully driving growth of multiple products or non-pharmaceutical access and/or commercial experience driving innovative growth in healthcare sector
- Strong background in systems thinking, combining pragmatic understanding of healthcare business models with clinical reimbursement and access criteria - ability to think within, as well as beyond, the system
- Advanced knowledge of access environment in key countries
- Strong external orientation - with the ability to engage, influence and align external/internal stakeholders (physicians, payers, governments)
- Inspirational leadership with high level of self-awareness and curiosity with focus on empowering others, people development and collaboration in a matrix
- Impact and operational excellence: through processes and procedures, get things done, scale-up, while focusing on innovation and continuous improvement whenever possible
- A strong track record in developing new access models in healthcare and approaches towards accelerating patient/customer adoption and uptake

**Why Novartis?**

Division

International

Business Unit

Pharmaceuticals

Location

Singapore

Site

Mapletree Business City (MBC)

Company / Legal Entity

SG90 (FCRS = SG015) Novartis Asia Pacific Pharmaceuticals Pte. Ltd

Functional Area

Market Access

Job Type

Full time

Employment Type

Regular

Shift Work

No

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