Health Economics And Market Access Director APAC And Growth Markets

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Position Summary

Strategic leadership of the Market Access function for the APAC & Growth Markets (AGM) region, which includes APAC, Middle-East, Africa & Russia and Latin America. The individual will be responsible for engaging with commercial leadership to identify market access priorities for the region, including opportunities for expanded access and defense of reimbursement. They will also identify opportunities to generate health economics/real world data evidence to illustrate the value of LIVANOVA solutions in key AGM markets. Additionally, the role will include direct management of in-country market access employees across the region, including China, Japan and Brazil (currently 4 FTE). The successful individual will demonstrate their ability to combine strategic leadership with a willingness to operate tactically and lead project delivery with a ‘can-do’ attitude.

General Responsibilities

• Represent the HEMAR function within the AGM leadership, positioning the function as a strategic business partner to the commercial team
• Collaborate with commercial colleagues to identify and assess Market Access opportunities and risks across the AGM markets, prioritizing them based on their commercial impact
• Partner with the Global HEMAR team to advocate for AGM-specific evidence needs in global evidence plans and explore together opportunities to generate regional health economic evidence
• Develop and establish comprehensive delivery plans for the regional Market Access strategy, including timelines, milestones and project governance, with regular updates to regional leadership
• Provide line management for in-country market access teams across the region, ensuring alignment of well-defined deliverables with country level commercial teams
• Drive team development including resource planning, justification for additional in-market hires and the creation of personal development plans for individual team members
• Oversee Health Economics/Market Access training across the AGM markets, including reimbursement coding and communication of health economic studies
• Manage relationships with external vendors with expertise in reimbursement/market access where LIVANOVA does not have in-market specialists
• Contribute to the evolution of the Global HEMAR team through active participation in the leadership activities and cross-regional collaboration with colleagues across the US and EU.
  
  

• A post-graduate qualification in a relevant field and/or relevant applied experience to illustrate a deep understanding of health economics, market access and reimbursement ideally in the medical device sector
• 5+ years’ experience in Market Access regional leadership role, with a strong track record of establishing close alignment with commercial functions
• Experience of developing regional Market Access strategy with an implementation plan to govern delivery of agreed priorities
• Experience of APAC and/or LATAM Market Access/Reimbursement requirements is desirable
• Line management experience in a Health Economics/Market Access function
• Experience of working with medical device industry associations & relevant professional bodies
• An established network of health economic stakeholders across the APAC and/or LATAM region would be beneficial
• Experience of neuromodulation and/or cardiovascular disease is desirable but not essential
  
  

• A post-graduate qualification in a relevant field, such as health economics, public health, healthcare administration or epidemiology is desirable.
• Applied training in health economic methods is desirable.
  
  

• Estimate ~25% of time required for travel, primarily across the AGM region to manage in-country Market Access specialists.
• Occasional travel to EU or US required to participate in leadership initiatives.