Health Economics & Market Access (HEMA) Manager

Job Function:
Market Access, Job Sub Function:
Health Economics, Market Access, Job Category:
Professional, All Job Posting Locations:
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Surgery Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology we are 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 is 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.

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 is 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 Med Tech, including timely market access strategies and assistance in market development through the development and execution of robust health economic arguments and tools to support funding and procedural adoption.

• Develop and execute market access strategies for new technologies and existing portfolios.
• Support the development of HEMA tools translating complex messages into simple statements that can easily be articulated by the sales force.
• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders including payers, healthcare professionals and governmental bodies.
• Work closely with the marketing, clinical and sales teams to ensure the alignment of market access activities with overall business objectives.
• Provide 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.
• Support 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.
• Partner with sales and marketing to deliver specialist health economic and reimbursement tools to customers, spending time in the field.

• 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.
• More than 3 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.
• 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.