Market Access Manager

Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh

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Job Summary:

This role aims to promote Takeda as a long-term trusted healthcare partner by strengthening the healthcare system and providing innovative solutions to advance standards of care and access to care in the prevention, of critical, rare, and underserved conditions. This individual will be responsible for planning and implementing to optimize patient access initiatives and creating market access in line with the Takeda Policy.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

Functional(primary job responsibilities)

• Reporting to Head of Market Access.

• Informs the legislative and policy environment to support Takeda’s short- and long-term objectives

• Monitors and analyses legislative and policy developments that may impact patient access to Takeda’s therapies

• Facilitates Patient Assistance Program planning and execution

• Supports pricing, reimbursement plans, and execution to justify appropriate product valuation in line with global pricing guidance and provide input into tender management strategy.

• Supports access assessments, strategy development, and execution for new product entries and uptake, and for growth and penetration of established products including securing external or internal expertise for health economic input.

• Identify evidence needs to successfully navigate access and successfully elevate these needs into global and Policy evidence-generation plans

Specific Responsibilities

• Leverage global product differentiation tools and evidence localizing these into a sustainable and successful payer value proposition

• Supports the development of relevant innovative access support programs with approved third-party vendors to improve patient access, patient compliance, and treatment outcome

• To track key access projects progress and success on the ground Patient Assistance Program

• Maintains relationships with key external stakeholders locally like government agencies, NGOs, Philanthropic and industry associations, etc.

• Engages in Industry association outreach and general policy monitoring impacting Takeda’s existing and future business focus areas.

Specific Competencies

Competency Profile

• Knows how decisions are made, policies formed and implemented that shape the healthcare environment in which related Takeda

• Translates policy to develop and execute innovative government affairs strategies, aligned with organizational goals to drive patient access and business growth

• Brings a high level of understanding of healthcare policies, treatment guidelines, healthcare systems, administration of care, and reimbursement structures and their relevance for access to Takeda’s therapies

• Connects identified unmet needs to future product and service development and informs that strategy

• Introduces and sponsors new processes and workflows to the organization to enhance Takeda’s ability to meet external emerging healthcare system and regulatory requirements

• Is sought out by external stakeholders, viewed as a trusted partner and key opinion leader

• Expert influencing communication and collaboration skills, with a strong ability to build coalitions externally

• Able to prioritize and target relevant actions based on trends in the healthcare market

• Anticipates how Takeda’s objectives will impact customers; to have an overall perspective, identifying areas where the Market Access and Public Affairs functions can contribute

• Contributes to the identification of different focus areas of an Access strategy depending on market archetypes

• Interacts with other functions and teams to foster alignment between strategies and objectives

• Defines the resources requirements to implement the projects/activities, related roles, and responsibilities and provide information to concerned departments

• Knows the key internal stakeholders at Takeda and their strategy and objectives

Qualification / Attributes:

• Bachelor’s degree required in a business or life science-related discipline, additional educationpreferred.

• 7 years experience in the pharmaceutical/medical device industry, in the areas of Market Access, Pricing, or Government Affairs.

• Experience in business planning and/or market analysis based on Access principles

• Language requirement: Fluency in local language (Vietnam) and English (preferred)

• Has good communication skills