Associate Director, Oncology Strategic Pricing APAC

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity.

About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow. Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Lead pricing for brands in line with global guidance including review of business cases and providing clear recommendations to AP Regional management and Global.
2. Define Regional Pricing Strategy for launch products over the life cycle.
3. Run Regional pricing/payer research and translate these insights to build clear regional strategies.
4. Collaborate with cross-functional Regional and Local teams to define launch sequencing for markets across multiple indications.
5. Lead implementation of Regional pricing strategies and tactics, working closely with operating companies to find innovative solutions that deliver access whilst optimizing long-term value for AP markets.
6. Provide recommendations on pricing assumptions across AP for key business planning processes: BP and LRFP.
7. Review how evidence generation plans, and RWE strategies can defend or substantiate pricing potential, through close working with Market Access colleagues.
8. Monitor TA-quality metrics / adherence to defined pricing strategy.
9. Provide pricing assessment for New Business Development evaluations, early products development and regulatory strategy.
10. Provide AP Pricing perspective into Global Clinical development Programs, incl. TPPs and Payer/Pricing research.
11. Be a true business partner, working with OpCos to explore and find solutions to pricing challenges and to support them in the development of cases for pricing submissions.

KEY DELIVERABLES:

1. Regional Pricing Guidance.
2. Launch Sequencing over multiple indications based on pricing for OpCos, considering IRP and competitive landscape.
3. Pricing approval: Review and prepare recommendations/lead escalation, approvals & documentation.
4. Business planning & LRFP Brand pricing guidance & forecast.
5. Preparing P&R trackers for key assets.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

1. The successful candidate preferably has a strong Pharmaceutical background (7 years experience) and has demonstrated a Regional mind-set with the ability to assimilate complex science and data quickly.
2. A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in a Biology, Pharmacy, or Medicine-related field is required. An advanced degree in a Market Access-related field of Finance is highly desirable.
3. Progressive market access/pricing experience is required with a proven track record of success in delivering market access.
4. Consolidated expertise in Pharmaceutical Pricing and Market Access with a good knowledge of healthcare systems in key AP markets.
5. Track record of developing and implementing successful pricing strategies.
6. Strategic thinker, capable of seeing the big picture and being analytical.
7. Excellent English communication skills.
8. Adept team player, able to cultivate strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders across multiple countries and cultures.
9. A track record of effectively operating in complex organisations.

Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s).