Job Description

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Salary:

Competitive

Type:

Permanent

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Other Industries & Skills:

Charity, Education & Training

Job ID:

126212988

Posted On:

11 March 2023

Are you a qualified professional with experience in the pharmaceutical industry? Do you want to make a positive impact on people\'s lives and join a community that is passionate to driving change? If so, we invite you for the Director of Market Access and Public Affairs (MAPA) position at Novo Nordisk in Malaysia.

If you\'re passionate about making a difference and want to join us in defeating obesity and other serious chronic diseases, don\'t miss this exciting opportunity. Apply now and let\'s work collaborate to create a better future for everyone.

About the Department

Novo Nordisk\xe2\x80\x99s Malaysia Market Access and Public Affairs team engages diverse stakeholders across Government and healthcare landscapes to forge solutions that drive patient access to innovative products. We strive to deliver the best possible outcomes for payors and patients with diabetes, obesity, growth hormone deficiencies, and rare bleeding disorders.

Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with more than 100 years of innovation and supervision in diabetes care. This heritage has given us experience and capabilities, enabling us to help people living with obesity, hemophilia, growth disorders, and other serious chronic diseases. The obesity therapy area is a fast-growing business unit in Novo Nordisk and is expected to grow into a key business pillar.

Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs approximately 45,000 people in 80 countries and markets its products in more than 169 countries

The Position

The Director/Head of Market Access and Public Affairs (MAPA) will take the principal in developing and implementing affiliate-wide Market Access and Public Affairs strategies. Play a key role in formulating affiliate pricing strategies in close partnership with Regional Management. Develop evidence and relevant Market Access & Public Affairs (MAPA) recommendations to management for optimizing market access and shaping the local healthcare environment. Communications are also included in this role; therefore, the MAPA Director/Head will play an important role as the affiliate media and NGO liaison.

This position directly reports to Malaysia\'s Vice President and General Manager.

The nature and scope of main accountabilities include but are not limited to:

-Market Access - Develop and monitor intelligence on the market access landscape, healthcare system changes, and general trends in the field as well as develop and execute an Affiliate wide MAPA Plan. Payor engagement, negotiation, objection handling, and process flow will also be key components of the role. Ultimately with the final intention of increasing patient access to our products.
-Value Communication - To create tailored local value messages that resonate with local patients, payors, health care providers, and other resolutions and to ensure Novo Nordisk\xe2\x80\x99s product value proposition is well recognized and managed to market uptake.
-Pricing and Contracting - Reflect a clear insight into the business impact and general Market Access implications by collaborating closely with key functions (Medical, Marketing, Sales) to create solid business/pricing cases for tenders, hospitals, and national MOH formulary listings. Monitor local pricing developments and ensure pricing SOP compliance.
-Public Affairs - Implement short-term, medium-term, and long-term strategic plans for policy engagement relevant to the company\xe2\x80\x99s business. Foster and manage partnership opportunities relevant to the entire affiliate with key stakeholders.
-Communications - Manage external communications, including media, NGO, and Government bodies to ensure all messages are correct and aligned with strategy.

Qualifications

-Bachelor\'s Degree or Higher in Pharmacy, Public Health, Science, Business Administration, or related fields
-Minimum 5 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry
-Solid knowledge of the Malaysia healthcare landscape and stakeholders
-Experience in government formulary listing & access processes
-Experience in the Multinational pharmaceutical industry
-Advocacy and stakeholder engagement

Working at Novo Nordisk

At Novo Nordisk, we don\xe2\x80\x99t wait for change. We drive it. We\xe2\x80\x99re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We embrace the spirit of experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize them. From research and development to manufacturing, marketing, and sales \xe2\x80\x93 we\xe2\x80\x99re all working to move the needle on patient care.

Contact

Send your CV online (click on Apply and follow the instructions).

Deadline

24 March 2023

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk, we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serv,e and the communities we operate in. Together, we\xe2\x80\x99re life-changingg.

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