Market Access Director - Abbott Diabetes Care, APAC
Market Access Director - Abbott Diabetes Care, APAC
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JOB DESCRIPTION:
Position Description
About Abbott: Abbott is a global healthcare leader dedicated to helping people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans diagnostics medical devices nutritionals and branded generic medicines. With 113000 colleagues serving people in more than 160 countries we are committed to making a lasting impact on global health.
About Abbott Diabetes Care: Abbott Diabetes Care is a global leader in diabetes management dedicated to helping people with diabetes lead healthier happier lives. Our innovative product portfolio includes the FreeStyle family of glucose monitoring systems which provide accurate and consistent glucose readings to help patients and healthcare professionals manage diabetes more effectively. Through continuous research and technological advancements Abbott Diabetes Care aims to set the standard for diabetes care offering state-of-the-art tools and support to improve patient outcomes.
About the Position: We are recruiting a Market Access Director Asia Pacific Abbott Diabetes Care. The primary goal of this role is to drive and achieve broad market access and reimbursement for Diabetes Care especially the Freestyle Libre family products in Asia Pacific region so that we can make our life-changing technology accessible to more people living with diabetes. This position is based in Singapore and will be part of Diabetes Cares Asia Pacific Leadership team.
Key Responsibilities
- Set vision and strategy for Market Access and bring Diabetes Cares life-changing technology to the broader population of people living with diabetes and making it accessible for them within the region.
- Define long-term market access strategies to support and deliver the vision by prioritizing the markets and implementation in phases.
- 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.
- Define and lead execution of market access strategies and tactics that achieve reimbursement milestones in the region.
- Continuously assess effectiveness of market access strategies and tactics via KPIs.
- Develop communication strategy to engage reimbursement agencies in core markets. Lead the preparation of reimbursement submission dossiers and other key communication materials in core markets.
- Serve as a subject matter expert in health economics and budget impact modelling including HTA (health technology assessment) clinical study design and EBM (evidence-based medicine) recommendations for diabetes as well as glucose monitoring.
- Contribute to P&L and LBE commercial goal setting by leveraging insights to the market access timeline forecast for each market.
- 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 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.
- This role serves as a member of the Diabetes Cares Asis Pacific Leadership team providing strategic leadership to the Commercial organization.
Qualification & Skills
- Minimum 10-15 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 Asia Pacific region including major reimbursement markets such as Japan Australia & New Zealand.
- 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) epidemiology clinical study design or 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.
- A magnetic people leader with proven track record in talent development and capability building in a fast-growing organization.
- Travel up to 30% will be required.
The base pay for this position is
N/AIn specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY:
Market Access
DIVISION:
ADC Diabetes Care
LOCATION:
Singapore > Singapore : DUO Tower
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:
WORK SHIFT:
Standard
TRAVEL:
Yes 25 % of the Time
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
Not Applicable
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
