Head of Market Access ANZ
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- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- Amazing health and wellness benefits and perks.
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The Opportunity
This position works for the Abbott Diabates Care business. We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.
Reporting to the Market Access Director, this position is responsible for:
- Securing Market Access and Reimbursement for Diabetes Care products
- Monitor and anticipate relevant reimbursement developments and create action plans to address upcoming market access challenges.
- Establish and leverage critical relationships to key market access stakeholders, developing customer intimacy and aiming for mutually beneficial partnership opportunities.
- Interact with country senior staff and global market access team members.
- Understand, describe and prioritize most relevant market access stakeholders (payers, governmental bodies, industry associations, professional associations and other stakeholders) for local organization/business.
- 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.
- Analyse market access trends / health policy changes and continuously map reimbursement requirements. Anticipate access barriers and cost containment risks.
- Assist in negotiating funding and price (if applicable) and support our products in reimbursement negotiations and health technology assessments.
- Develop appropriate communication platforms to reinforce the value messages for our products
- Partner with the Global Market Access team to inform product development & pricing based on MA customer needs. Develop launch plans for new products, mapping out local coding, coverage and payment requirements.
- Consolidate planning and actions in local market access strategy & implementation plans taking into account short-term and mid-term business goals.
- Be a subject matter expert in HTA (health technology assessment) and EbM (evidence-based medicine) recommendations on BGM and CGM.
- Contribute actively to the global market access network by providing relevant local country input and sharing best practices.
In addition to the above, the relevant experience in required:
- B.A. or B.S. Degree
- At least 10 years' experience in pharma / medical device industry, health policy or related functions of payers/HMOs/disease management organizations.
- Background in evidence based medicine and/or public health and/or market access and/or competitive effectiveness research and/or health economics.
- Functional experience in Reimbursement & Market Access
- Experience in creation and management of local HTA submissions
- Broad knowledge of government and private payer reimbursement
This role will work within a team of very capable and passionate individuals committed to getting the best outcomes for the patients and the customers that we serve.
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