Associate Director, Global Health Economics Market Access - Biosurgery

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Job Function:

Market Access

Job Sub Function:

Health Economics Market Access

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Associate Director, Global Health Economics Market Access - Biosurgery

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

We are searching for the best talent for an Associate Director, Global Health Economics Market Access team member for the Johnson & Johnson MedTech Surgery business. This is an end-to-end role with a focus on the Biosurgery business addressing blood management and hemostasis. The position is located at the J&J Office, Raritan, New Jersey.

Purpose: Reporting to the Senior Director, Global & Regional HEMA, Surgery based in New Jersey, USA, the Associate Director Global HEMA Biosurgery will work in close collaboration with Global Strategic Marketing, Research & Development, Medical, Clinical & Preclinical Research, Epidemiology and Regional HEMA partners.

The role is responsible for building and executing integrated market access strategies, leveraging health economics and value creation for the adoption and payment of Biosurgery MedTech innovation.

This is an important role that will: (i) shape the market access strategies that include, but not limited to, assessing market access needs/trends, (ii) influence the business strategies to leverage market access considerations in the respective therapeutic areas, and, (iii) develop and execute required market access and evidence of value strategies to optimize market access, technology adoption and commercial success.

You will be responsible for :

• Lead and guide global and regional cross-functional new technology innovation (NPI) teams on critical strategic market access assessment and requirements for optimizing prioritized US and global market commercialization.
• Proactive partnering with Regional HEMA (RHEMA), Global Strategic Marketing, and respective cross-functional teams, namely Clinical Research, Medical Affairs, R&D, to optimise NPI Target Product Profiles (TPP).
• Partner to capture regional teams Health Technology Assessment (HTA) strategy and execution to generate coded coverage reimbursement aligned to all Biosurgery technology and associated procedures, obliging the business’ financial metrics.
• Lead and guide global cross-functional teams on evidentiary requirements to oblige prioritized market access with payment from all payers for Surgeon adoption of MedTech innovation aligned to patient treatment.
• Lead and manage research activities that include, but are not limited to burden of illness, retrospective database studies, creation of global economic models, development of value messaging, patient-reported outcomes development and analysis, interpretation of economic, QoL endpoints and results.
• Proactively collaborate with RHEMA and respective cross-functional partners internally to execute global economic and clinical real-world evidence (RWE) generation (e.g., retrospective payer database, EMR studies, time-and-motion studies, quality improvement analyses).
• Lead dissemination and training on evidence generation, evidentiary analysis and economic tools.
• Partner with Regional and local HEMA and commercial leaders to engage externally with market hospital administrators, surgeons & surgical societies to identify evidence that will demonstrate key market specific clinical, procedural and economic value of MedTech Biosurgery products.
• Lead and guide the development of Global HEMA materials and economic tool templates for RHEMA & local teams to customize with a focus on customer-facing materials to support value proposition, value creation, adoption and payment of J&J MedTech’s Surgery products.
• Foster a collaborative team culture ensuring alignment with the Canada, APAC, EMEA and LATAM regions cross-functional and commercial teams across all of Surgery’s platforms.

Qualifications / Requirements:

• Required Education
• Certified advanced degree (MS, MPH, PhD, MHA, MBA) in a healthcare-related field; health economics, outcomes research or related field is required.
• Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Minimum of 8-10+ or more years of experience in the healthcare industry, MedTech preferred.
• Demonstrated acumen in developing and executing market access strategies for both access and adoption of innovative technology within the surgical procedural sector.
• Demonstrated ability and experience working successfully in matrix environments.
• Proven ability to understand business strategy with a broad-based commercial financial acumen.
• Strong understanding of HEMA analytical methods, e.g., statistics and economic modelling, inclusively with awareness and use of new and evolving digital techniques e.g., Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Intelligent Automation (IA)
• Ability to work from strategy development, execute and derive value creation for MedTech innovation; comfortable in a dynamic organization delivering value strategies, development and deployment of evidence supported claims.
• Experience providing input to pricing strategy, building economic models and tools, executing value-based programs (e.g., VBAs) aligned with evidence and business strategy throughout the product lifecycle.
• A strong understanding of medical & surgical service delivery, technology reimbursement, market access conditions and health policy trends in major global markets is required.
• Experience leading health economic or outcomes research studies from concept through to publication; including management of research vendors or consultants.
• Global experience is highly desirable, with deep understanding of the US access policy environment, external marketplace and access requirements that drive MedTech adoption.
• Preferred
• Solid understanding of surgical procedures.
• Extensive complex project and vendor management experience.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, internal and external.
• Literacy and fluency with OR surgical procedures’ funding pathways and reimbursement mechanisms in global markets: USA, Canada, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America.
• Ability to travel 10-15% of time within domestic USA and global locations
• Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
• Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers , internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

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

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$137,000.00 - $235,750.00

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).

This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.

Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:

Vacation –120 hours per calendar year

Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year

• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
• Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
• Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
• Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
• Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 days
• Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year
• For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits