Senior Manager, Market Access, Japac

Innovation starts from the heart. Edwards Lifesciences is the leading global structural heart innovation company, driven by a passion to improve patient lives. With millions of patients served in over 100 countries, each team makes a meaningful contribution by improving patient outcomes and discovering lasting solutions for unmet patient needs. Our Senior Manager, Market Access position is a unique career opportunity that could be your next step towards an exciting future.

**How you will make an impact**:

- C oordinating 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.
- E mpowering 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)**:

- Required a bachelor’s degree or equivalent in healthcare-related fields.
- Required a 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.
- Strong English-speaking ability and clear, concise communication at all levels with strong speaking, presentation and written 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.