Manager, Health Economics & Market Access (HEMA), Mid-Sized Markets

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Job Function:

Market Access

Job Sub Function:

Health Economics Market Access

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Vienna, Austria, Zug, Switzerland

Job Description:

About Surgery

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.

Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of surgery? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Surgery team will give you the chance to deliver surgical technologies and solutions to surgeons and healthcare professionals around the world. Your contributions will help effectively treat some of the world’s most prevalent conditions such as obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Patients are waiting.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

Manager, Health Economics & Market Access (HEMA), Mid-Sized Markets

Primary market focus: Switzerland & Austria

Preferred Location: Zug, Switzerland

Secondary Location: Vienna, Austria

Purpose of the role

Health Economics & Market Access (HEMA) is a critical element of our market access strategy to ensure success in an increasingly challenging market. New procurement decision-making processes and an increasing focus on value-based healthcare requires evidence coming from clinical studies and derived economic value from our technologies and solutions. It’s essential that we equip ourselves with the required capabilities and convey a meaningful value-based message to our customers.  Within this context, the purpose of the role is to lead the health economics and market access activities for our Surgery portfolio at MedTech, including timely market access strategies and assist in market development, through the development and execution of robust health economic arguments and tools to support funding and procedural adoption.

Required Duties and Responsibilities:

Develop and execute market access strategies for new technologies and existing portfolios

Support the development of HEMA tools, translating complex messages into simple statements that can easily be articulated by the sales force

Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including payers, healthcare professionals, and governmental bodies

Work closely with the marketing, clinical, and sales teams to ensure the alignment of market access activities with overall business objectives

Provide input into the evidence generation strategy for new product development and identify local opportunities for health economic evidence generation

Accountable for health economic input into novel local commercial initiatives requiring substantiation of value, including but not restricted to value-based procurement and value-based agreements

Support the adaptation and local approval of regionally developed HEMA tools, translating complex messages into simple statements that can easily be articulated by the sales force

Partner with sales and marketing to deliver specialist health economic and reimbursement tools to customers, spending time in the field

Qualifications

Who are we looking for?

Advanced degree in health economics, health policy, public health, economics, healthcare management, epidemiology, outcomes research, or other relevant discipline

Solid understanding of the principles of HTA and health economics

Strong track record of successful engagement with clinical and non-clinical stakeholders

>3 years experience in the medical devices, health care or pharmaceutical industry, an HTA or payer organization, healthcare consultancy, academic institution, research organization, or another relevant healthcare-system setting. Medtech experience in the relevant locations is required..

Good understanding of the processes within healthcare systems and payer bodies

Appetite to build on knowledge and experience of market access and health economics

Demonstrated ability to lead through influence and partner effectively with commercial teams in a cross-functional matrix environment.

Strong project management orientation with the ability to prioritize and manage complex list of projects to completion

Ability to synthesize clinical and health economic evidence into messages easily understood by non-clinical stakeholders

Ability to work effectively in cross-functional matrix to successfully deliver objectives on time and within budget

Demonstrated ability to work effectively individually and in a team environment

Strong internal and external communicator

Excellent behavioral skills and communication style

German language proficiency is required.

Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Experience of engagement with payers

Familiarity with healthcare systems database sources

Track record of overcoming complex market access challenges

Experience of strategic planning that is aligned with priority projects to achieve excellence in execution

Previous experience of developing business cases, value briefs and value propositions to support market access strategies

Experience of delivering reimbursement and HTA information to internal sales & marketing teams

Ability to critically assess and synthesize clinical, epidemiological, real-world and health-economic evidence.

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Agility Jumps, Commercial Awareness, Competitive Landscape Analysis, Developing Others, Global Market, Health Economics, Health Intelligence, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Market Knowledge, Market Opportunity Assessment, Operations Management, Performance Measurement, Pricing Strategies, Regulatory Compliance, Report Writing, Strategic Change, Team Management