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Job Function:

Market Access

Job Sub Function:

Health Economics Market Access

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Prague, Czechia, Warsaw, Masovian, Poland

Job Description:

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/. 

Senior Manager, Health Economics & Market Access (HEMA), Emerging Markets CEE

Location: Prague or Warsaw

Contract: full-time

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  

Purpose:

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 require 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.

You will be responsible for:

• Developping and executing market access strategies for new technologies and existing portfolios
• Supporting the development of HEMA tools, translating complex messages into simple statements that can easily be articulated by the sales force
• Building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders, including payers, healthcare professionals, and governmental bodies
• Working closely with the marketing, clinical, and sales teams to ensure the alignment of market access activities with overall business objectives
• Providing 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
• Supporting 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
• Partnering with sales and marketing to deliver specialist health economic and reimbursement tools to customers, spending time in the field

Qualifications / Requirements:

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
• >5 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 preferred.
• 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

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.
• Fluent in English, native in Czech or Polish

The anticipated base pay range for this position is 26 500 PLN gross/monthly to 45 616 EUR gross/monthly in Poland.

In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions. Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement, programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well-being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.

*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change. 

 

 

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, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), Strategic Change, Team Management