Market Access Manager, HK&TW

Main Responsibilities:*

Define and lead execution of market access strategies and tactics that achieve reimbursement milestones in the region.

Lead and execute Market Access planning for Taiwan and Hong Kong, focusing on clear prioritization and phased implementation to expand coverage and improve accessibility of innovative diabetes technologies.

Develop fact-based, customer-focused strategic and tactical market access plans based on insight from payers, HCPs, consumers and regulatory agencies. Communicate the vision broadly and lead the organization in execution of the strategy.

Develop and manage reimbursement, pricing, and funding strategies aligned with national and regional healthcare policies, dealing with the National Health Insurance Agency (NHIA) and the local city government Department of Health (DOH) or commercial insurance agency.

Continuously assess effectiveness of market access strategies and tactics via KPIs.

Develop communication strategy to engage reimbursement agencies in Taiwan and Hongkong. Lead the preparation of reimbursement submission dossiers and other key communication materials in these markets.

Partner with Commercial and Marketing teams to integrate market access insights into launch planning and lifecycle management.

Serve as a subject matter expert in health economics and budget impact modelling including HTA (health technology assessment), recommendations for diabetes as well as glucose monitoring.

Demonstrate executive presence and maturity to effectively represent Abbott engaging payers and other government agencies.

Build collaborative relationships with internal stakeholders such as Government Affairs/ commercial insurance agency to achieve market access goals and deliver on commitments.

Build trusted and strategic relationships with payers and influencing stakeholders to anticipate payers’ agendas, plans and objectives.

Understand the specific needs of payers and reimbursement-related stakeholders and identify mutually beneficial partnering opportunities.

Understand, describe and prioritize most relevant (influential, accessible) market access stakeholders (payers, governmental bodies, industry associations, professional associations and other stakeholders) for the respective local affiliates.

Make difficult decisions (i.e. reimbursement negotiations, business, customer-related) in a timely manner.

Analyse market access trends/health policy changes and continuously map reimbursement requirements by payer type in core markets within the region.

Proactively monitor external environment, customers and competitors to identify opportunities for protecting and improving value capture. Anticipate risks and changing market conditions; define and execute mitigation plans to ensure that commitments are met.

Collaborate cross functionally with Marketing, Sales and Medical to enable effective market access execution.

Skills & Experience Required:*

Minimum 8 -10 years' experience in market access, health policy or related functions interfacing payers/ HMOs / healthcare professionals, disease management organizations, in the pharma / medical device industry.

Background in evidence-based medicine and/ or public health and/or stakeholder advocacy and/ or market access and/or competitive effectiveness research and/or health economics.

Functional experience in reimbursement & market access and broad knowledge of government and private payer reimbursement in Taiwan.

Demonstrated experience partnering with commercial teams to support product launch/Reimbursement and growth strategies.

Bachelor’s degree required in Health Economics, Public Health, Life Sciences, Business, or a related field.

Master’s degree (e.g., MBA, Health Economics) preferred.

Ability to assess impact of reimbursement policies on the business and develop impactful market access strategies & action plans to mitigate reimbursement challenges.

Strong influencing skills and stakeholder management to develop sustainable relationships with relevant stakeholders.

Understanding of EBM (evidence-based medicine), health economics/health technology assessment or biometrics (medical statistics).

Hands on experience/understanding of diabetes and glucose measuring business will be a plus.

Strong interpersonal skills, a team player and able to work with global, regional and cross-functional stakeholders.

Strong analytical, strategic thinking, and problem‑solving skills.

Languages: Mandarin Chinese and English.

Travel up to 30% will be required.