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Job Description

Job Title:  Market Access Lead

Location:  Taiwan

About the role: 

• The main purpose of this position is to design, develop and implement activities that enable TAKEDA Taiwan to secure optimal reimbursement and realize the maximum potential of patient access treatments for current and future pipeline.
• Strengthen access team and facilitate talent development.
• Demonstrate leadership through cross-functional collaborations to optimize registration, pricing & reimbursement and listing (both at launch and throughout the lifecycle of the product).
• Speed up the product access to the patients; establish/ maintain excellent relationships with Taiwan key public policy makers, influencers, media, NGOs and reimbursement authority.

How you will contribute: 

1) National Pricing and Reimbursement

• Develop various pricing scenario considering product labeling, patient flow, treatment guideline, current competition status, national insurance policy and product life cycle management.
• Build different business case simulations to gain internal alignment on pricing and reimbursement scope. Through this to facilitate team to achieve optimal reimbursement objective.
• Develop value-based contracts i.e. risk sharing program, pay for performance, price-volume  etc…and calculate ROIs

2 )  Build Stakeholders relation and policy shaping

• Build up strong relationship with key stakeholders including government officials, experts and maintain regular interactions.
• Lead/ Assist with the development and implementation of public relations and government affairs strategy as it pertains to the market access environment
• Work with finance dept. to estimate pricing impact and simulate the long term market trend for business planning.
• Regular update market dynamics, macro/micro environment change and policy change to leadership team
• Interface on regular basis with key internal and external stakeholders to review and address their challenges
• Work with IRPMA and related associations to follow up policy and environment change and engage in future policy recommendation
• Manage TAKEDA related products reimbursement guideline change

3) Analyze and Shape Payer Market for Pipelines

• Initiate burden of illness studies to understand patient flow, unmet need, treatment pathways
• Develop market insights, including epidemiology and health political insights
• Map key stakeholders and influencers
• Identify and rank unmet need and value drivers for payer
• Conduct the campaigns for increasing disease awareness and sense of urgency of treatment
• Conduct clinical meetings to gain insight and create advocates
• Identify and engage relevant patient groups; support the establishment of specific patient advocacy group if needed

4) Evidence Based Payer Value Proposition

• Translate insights to innovative payer value propositions
• Identify evidence requirements and design the clinical trials to support value story
• Test value story across key stakeholders
• Build relevant, solid value arguments with supporting health economic and budget impact analysis (BIA) models
• Generate Pharmacoeconomics/Health Technology Assessment reports or conduct Cost Effectiveness Analysis model studies

What you bring to Takeda: 

 Education:      

• University or above, major in life science related.
• Master’s degree in business management/ health economic background is plus.

Work experience:        

• At least 8yr experience on market access or related functions (commercial functions, pricing, public affairs, patient advocacy, etc.)
• Experience in managing multiple projects across functional areas
• Work experience in people management is a plus.

Other s:

• Strong strategic thinking, planning and project management capability
• Excellent understanding of scientific issues as they impact product development and commercialization.
• Thorough understanding of the drug development process from preclinical to launch and required NPP activities at each stage.
• Experience with commercial valuations and extensive financial, analytical and decision-making skills.
• Able to accomplish things against the odds, and can work independently with little or no supervision
• Excellent communication skills.
• Cross functional leadership and high level of inter-personal skills

More about us:

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.

Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

Empowering our people to shine:

Takeda is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, status as a Vietnam era veteran, special disabled veteran, or other protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws, and any other characteristic protected by law.

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