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**Job Function: **
Market Access
**Job Sub Function: **
Health Economics Market Access
Job Category:
Professional
All Job Posting Locations:
Hanoi, Hà Nội, Vietnam
Job Description:
About MedTech
Fuelled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments. In Asia Pacific, we serve over 63 million patients a year across a truly diverse set of geographies and populations. The Surgery business delivers technologies and solutions to surgeons and healthcare professionals around the world. The Health Economics Market Access function is a strategic capability, whose contributions help effectively treat some of the world’s most prevalent conditions; cancer, cardiovascular, thoracic, gastroenterological and orthopaedic diseases.
Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech.
Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Senior Specialist, Health Economics Market Access (HEMA), Vietnam for the Johnson & Johnson MedTech Surgery business. This is an end-to-end role with a focus on MedTech implants and enabling technologies aligned to Surgery; Advanced Wound Closure, Haemostasis, Endo Mechanical, Energy and Robotics platforms.
Reporting to the Manager HEMA Surgery, Thailand, the Senior Specialist HEMA role for Surgery partners cross-functionally to build and execute integrated market access strategies, leveraging health economics and value creation for the adoption and payment of Surgery MedTech innovation.
This role will:
- Develop all New Product Innovation (NPI) material in preparation for Vietnam’s MoH as the designated Health Strategy and Policy Institute (HSPI) agency is progressively being formalised for MedTech HTA applications.
- Proactively leverage support from the Manager HEMA, Thailand to engage in cross-functional discussions to help shape the imminent HTA policy, seeking input and partnership on Surgery platform technology access strategy with the Manager HEMA Thailand and Vietnam’s commercial leaders.
- Directly engage and identify the scope of establishing partnerships with Private Healthcare Sector payers, leveraging support from the Manager HEMA Thailand, Surgery.
- Educate and inform RHEMA SEA and local cross-functional teams on mandatory evidence requirements to oblige Vietnam’s market access aligned to NPI value creation for Surgeon adoption of Surgery MedTech innovation for patient treatment.
- Partner with Vietnam Surgery commercial leaders to address local market hospital administrators, surgeons & surgical societies to gain insights that demonstrates Vietnam specific clinical, procedural and economic value of J&J MedTech Surgery products.
- Build partnerships with local commercial teams and RHEMA SEA, to customise & build relevant economic tools to inform external stakeholders of J&J MedTech Surgery innovation value, aligned to global market access and pricing strategies.
- Lead evidence dissemination, including development of customer-facing materials that support the value proposition, value creation, adoption and payment of J&J MedTech’s Surgery products in Vietnam.
Key Responsibilities Include
- Supporting Vietnam’s “integrated” evidence strategy for optimising early access and reimbursement for new product technologies by leveraging the RA dossier compilation and prioritizing relevant data and analyses that support Vietnam’s access value proposition and stakeholder needs.
- Define each New Product Innovation (NPI) value messages for the commercial teams to engage with KOLs as local cost analysis can support the technology value proposition.
- Support RHEMA SEA to align RWE data analysis, including site selection, data collection, and summary collation as needed.
- Customise Global and Regional evidence into Vietnam customer-facing materials (e.g., value summaries, cost-of-care analysis, hospital case studies) for all external stakeholders; namely hospital level Value Assessment bodies, hospital executive level and all payers.
- Partner with Vietnam’s Marketing and Sales Teams to deliver consistent value messages supported by appropriate education, tools, and evidence.
- Support the Manager HEMA Thailand, Surgery on defining market access needs and reimbursement policy trends to support the evidentiary strategies and evidence generation aligned to MedTech adoption, payment, value creation and commercial success.
What you will bring
Required
- Bachelor’s degree (Science, Applied Science, Health Economics, Public Health Policy) and/or a Masters (Science/Medical/Health Economics/Health Policy/Business Administration) ideally in a healthcare-related field.
- Minimum of 2+ years’ experience in Vietnam’s healthcare industry.
- Demonstrated acumen in Vietnam’s HTA access, MedTech industry, with foundational surgical procedural knowledge.
- Sound understanding of the Vietnam access policy environment, external marketplace and access requirements that drive MedTech value creation and adoption.
- Demonstrated growth mindset and ability to apply learning to interpret and communicate health economic deliverables (e.g., cost utility, effectiveness, consequence and budget impact modelling, analyses).
- Communication and training skills to translate evidence into succinct value narratives building customer relevant tools and materials.
- Demonstrated growth mindset and ability to collaborate, build credibility with internal and external customers; clinical, commercial, payer and hospital audiences.
Preferred
Demonstrated local Vietnam commercial and cross-functional stakeholder engagement skills, including Regulatory, Marketing, Government Affairs, Sales and RHEMA.
Project & time management skills with demonstrated experience to support the building of value creation tools, supporting insights from health outcomes research with leadership from the Manager HEMA Surgery, Thailand.
Introductory understanding of OR surgical procedures aligned to open and laparoscopic techniques, key to the Surgery platforms’ economic variables to define value (e.g. personnel, scheduling, costs, clinical pathways, key performance indicators).
Strategic thinking to develop an overview relevant to Vietnam’s treatment pathways that translate clinical and procedural information that leverages early access approval and adoption.
Open to gaining experience of a hospital setting to gather critical insights to Surgery aligned patient procedures, treatment and pathway management is highly preferred.
Preferred Skills
Vietnam Market Healthcare System funding processes and knowledge.
Developing acumen with; Commercial Awareness, Competitive Landscape Analysis, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Go-to-Market Strategies, Hospital Cost Modelling, Market Knowledge, Market Opportunity Assessment, Pricing Strategies, Tactical Planning, Technical Credibility.
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