Job Description

• Join the premier biopharmaceutical company that has been in the Asia Pacific (AP) for over 60 years.
  
• Based in Singapore, along with members of regional cross-functional teams to allow for greater face-to-face collaboration, innovation, and alignment.
  
• Drive the Asia Pacific Market Access priorities to enable access to Vaccines, Virology & Pharmaceutical portfolio products to enhance the quality of life for diverse patients.
  
  Our Global Market Access organization is driven by a passion to save and improve lives through ensuring sustainable access to our medicines and vaccines at a price reflective of their value. We work across the enterprise to deliver excellence in pricing strategy and execution, develop and implement integrated access strategies, shape the external access landscape, and innovate patient access models and solutions. We work collaboratively across the enterprise and with regional and local market teams to drive sustainable patient access.
  
  Reporting into the Regional Market Access leader for the Asia Pacific, you will partner with markets to ensure the successful execution of access, tender, and pricing strategies. This will be consistent with the integrated business plan for critical assets within the Company's Vaccines, Virology & Pharmaceutical product portfolio.
  
  WHAT YOU WILL DO
  
• Plan and execute landscape and pricing research to support and build market access strategy for products and indications. Ensure appropriate pricing, access, and negotiation strategies to achieve optimal access and unlock entire populations through vaccine NIPs/catch-up programs and enhance penetration in the private market.
  
• Closely collaborate with Marketing, Medical Affairs, Policy, and CORE (Centre for Observational and Real-World Evidence) teams in AP.
  
• Liaise with the global market access and business teams to lead the execution of the global access strategy for assets within the Company's Vaccines, Virology & Pharmaceutical portfolio.
  
• Represent the AP region to provide input to develop global access and pricing strategies for pipeline Vaccine, Virology, Hospital, and Specialist assets.
  
• Design and implement regional access initiatives supporting local short- and long-term objectives and outcomes.
  
• Demonstrate market access subject matter expertise in key Therapy/Capability Areas, such as Contracting and Affordability Solutions, as a resource to the regional access strategy team and subsidiary teams.
  
• Ensure value proposition and pricing strategy for key franchises, tender shaping, and bidding strategies through working directly with markets to manage the development of strategic responses to the external economic, regulatory, legal, and political environments. Design and deliver communication activities to develop and nurture the relationship with key internal and external stakeholders
  
• Support markets in the implementation of strategic projects to identify evidence requirements, proactively generate insights through the use of local & other data sources. Drive data generation to address gaps, generate locally tailored value messages to relevant stakeholders, and support the development and implementation of NIPs and reimbursement proposals that address payers' challenges.
  
• Support and guide price approval proposals in specific markets and support business cases (analyzing pricing levels, pricing research, interfaces with HQs, creation, and implementation of tools to support price management).
  
• Together with market teams, look for innovative public payment solutions and funding mechanisms to ensure access to the entire population for our vaccines and pharmaceuticals.
  
• Develop a thorough understanding of the key payer landscape (including barriers and opportunities). Develop an understanding of policy objectives, health priorities, and planned initiatives of governments throughout the region with the Policy, communication, and Population Health teams.
  
• Support private market affordability and innovative payment solutions for vaccines and virology.
  
• Partner with the Learning & Development team and other stakeholders to augment execution excellence and pricing, access, and health economic capabilities of affiliates to support the value and access strategy. Build hands-on negotiation strategies for critical tenders across the region.
  
  WHAT YOU MUST HAVE:
  
• We are seeking a collaborative, innovative, and adaptable leader capable of earning the trust and confidence of peers and leaders and accustomed to working in a dynamic region and within a matrix structure.
  To be successful in this role, you will also have:
  
• You have a BA/BS degree in business administration, health policy, or health economics (or equivalent) from an accredited university. A Master's degree is preferred.
  
• You have strong experience in market access, health economics, outcomes research, and pricing in the pharmaceutical industry at the Regional level.
  
• You have excellent commercial acumen and leadership skills, including collaborating across the organization and establishing influential relationships with key stakeholders to formulate payer collaborations.
  
• You are capable of synthesizing and integrating strategic information from across commercial functions.
  
  Our Human Health Division maintains a "patient first, profits later" ideology. The organization is comprised of sales, marketing, market access, digital analytics, and commercial professionals who are passionate about their role in bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide
  
  Who we are:
  We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.
  
  What we look for
  Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.
  

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Regular
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Job Posting End Date:
11/23/2024

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Requisition ID:R319323