Manager Regional Market Access

DKSH; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

DKSH is seeking a Regional Market Access Manager to lead a scalable APAC market access capability and accelerate patient access across diverse healthcare markets. You will embed market access thinking in business development, portfolio management, and product launches, delivering measurable impact for clients and patients.

The role requires proven experience in reimbursement strategy, payer engagement, HTA or formulary submissions, and cross-country collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy, Medicine, Health Sciences, Public Health, Health Economics, Economics, or a related discipline.
• Postgraduate qualification in Health Economics, Outcomes Research, Public Health, Business Administration, or a related field is an advantage.
• Proficiency in English; additional Asian language capability is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a regional market access framework across Asia Pacific for opportunity assessment, access pathway mapping, evidence requirements, reimbursement strategy, submission planning, and post-listing optimization.
• Translate regional framework into practical tools, templates, and governance structures for use by business development and country teams.
• Coordinate with country teams on market access plans for new product launches, including payer landscape assessment, value proposition development, evidence planning, submission requirements, timelines, and stakeholder responsibilities.
• Support reimbursement and formulary submissions with robust clinical, economic, and budget-impact evidence.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Commercial, Medical, Regulatory, Finance, and Alliance Management to align market access strategy with launch and lifecycle plans.
• Lead regional pricing and reimbursement strategy for priority assets, covering price corridors, international reference pricing exposure, and tender dynamics.
• Design innovative access and contracting models (managed-entry, outcomes-based, indication-based) subject to local feasibility and compliance.

Skills

English proficiency

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy/Health Sciences/related

Postgraduate qualification in Health Economics/HEOR/Public Health (advantage)

Job description

Regional Market Access Manager

The Regional Market Access Manager is a key strategic role within DKSH Healthcare, responsible for building and leading a scalable market access capability across Asia Pacific that accelerates patient access and drives commercial growth. You will embed market access thinking at the heart of business development, portfolio management, and product launch decisions, creating measurable impact for clients, partners, and patients across diverse healthcare markets.

What You Will Deliver

• Develop and maintain a regional market access framework covering opportunity assessment, access pathway mapping, evidence requirements, reimbursement strategy, submission planning, and post-listing optimization.
• Translate the regional framework into practical tools, templates, and governance structures for consistent application by business development and country teams.
• Partner with Business Development to assess the market access attractiveness of future assets, including reimbursement feasibility, addressable patient segments, access timelines, pricing and funding considerations, and potential revenue scenarios.
• Provide market access input into asset screening, due diligence, and business cases, clearly articulating key assumptions, risks, evidence gaps, and mitigation actions.
• Conduct a structured review of the existing DKSH Healthcare portfolio to identify products where reimbursement, formulary inclusion, tender access, patient support, or other access interventions could expand patient reach and unlock growth.
• Prioritize portfolio opportunities using transparent criteria including unmet need, patient impact, strategic relevance, access feasibility, investment required, and potential commercial value.
• Coordinate with country teams on market access plans for new product launches, encompassing payer landscape assessment, value proposition development, evidence planning, submission requirements, timelines, and stakeholder responsibilities.
• Support the preparation and quality review of reimbursement and formulary submissions, ensuring clinical, economic, and budget-impact evidence is accurate, compelling, and appropriate for local requirements.
• Work cross-functionally with Commercial, Medical, Regulatory, Finance, Business Development, and Alliance Management to align market access strategy with launch and lifecycle plans.
• Build and maintain a regional view of payer, reimbursement, and policy developments, translating relevant changes into clear implications for DKSH portfolios and partner opportunities.
• Lead regional pricing and reimbursement strategy for priority assets, covering price corridor considerations, international reference pricing exposure, launch sequencing, price-volume scenarios, and governance of country pricing recommendations.
• Design and evaluate innovative access and contracting models such as managed-entry agreements, outcomes-based arrangements, risk-sharing approaches, indication-based access, installment models, and patient affordability solutions, subject to local feasibility and compliance requirements.
• Develop payer, Health Technology Assessment (HTA), and stakeholder engagement strategies based on stakeholder mapping, segmentation, decision drivers, and evidence needs; support country teams in preparing for value discussions and negotiations.
• Partner with Medical and Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) colleagues to shape integrated evidence-generation plans, including real-world evidence, epidemiology, burden-of-disease studies, comparative effectiveness, patient-reported outcomes, and local health-economic analyses.
• Adapt global or partner value dossiers, economic models, and payer materials for local relevance, ensuring assumptions, comparators, treatment pathways, and budget impacts reflect country requirements.
• Serve as the market access subject-matter partner for pharmaceutical clients and alliance partners, contributing to joint access plans, governance forums, business reviews, and issue resolution.
• Define post-listing optimization plans, including formulary expansion, restriction removal, tender participation, pathway inclusion, evidence commitments, contract performance, and access sustainability.
• Set the vision, priorities, and roadmap for a scalable regional market access capability within DKSH Healthcare.
• Chair regional access reviews for priority launches and portfolio opportunities, ensuring timely decisions, escalation of critical risks, and alignment on investment and resources.
• Build market access capability within country teams through coaching, knowledge sharing, playbooks, and communities of practice.
• Create a strong regional network of country market access practitioners and external experts to accelerate knowledge transfer and the reuse of successful approaches across markets.
• Administrative duties and coordination tasks as required.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy, Medicine, Health Sciences, Public Health, Health Economics, Economics, or a related discipline.
• Postgraduate qualification in Health Economics, Outcomes Research, Public Health, Business Administration, or a related field is an advantage.
• Proficiency in English; additional Asian language capability is an advantage.
• At least 7 years of relevant experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical technology, healthcare consulting, payer, government, or market access roles.
• Demonstrated experience in reimbursement strategy, payer engagement, formulary or reimbursement submissions, and launch access planning.
• Regional or multi-country Asia Pacific experience, with practical understanding of differences in healthcare systems and access pathways.
• Experience supporting asset evaluation, due diligence, business development, or revenue scenario development is strongly preferred.
• Proven track record of working effectively with cross-functional and country teams in a matrix environment.
• Experience with portfolio optimization, lifecycle management, or patient-access expansion initiatives is an advantage.
• Hands-on experience with pricing strategy, payer negotiations, HTA interactions, innovative contracting, or evidence-generation planning is highly desirable.
• Experience working with global or regional pharmaceutical partners and adapting global value strategies to heterogeneous Asia Pacific markets is an advantage.
• Strong knowledge of healthcare systems, payer environments, reimbursement pathways, HTA, and formulary decision-making across Asia Pacific markets.
• Ability to assess market access potential and translate clinical, epidemiological, pricing, reimbursement, and market data into patient-access and revenue scenarios.
• Demonstrated capability in value proposition development, evidence strategy, reimbursement dossiers, budget-impact analysis, and payer communication.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, including scenario modelling and evaluation of assumptions, risks, and sensitivities.
• Portfolio prioritization, launch planning, and project management skills across multiple countries and stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex access topics clearly to senior stakeholders.
• Strong influencing, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills in a matrix organization.
• Strong understanding of pharmaceutical pricing strategy, pricing governance, launch sequencing, international reference pricing, tender dynamics, and contracting models.
• Working knowledge of HEOR methods, real-world evidence, economic modelling, evidence synthesis, and critical appraisal of clinical and economic data.
• Ability to plan and support payer, HTA, government, and institutional stakeholder engagement and negotiation across diverse cultural and policy environments.
• Ability to convert cross-market payer and policy intelligence into clear implications for pipeline, portfolio, launch, and lifecycle decisions.
• High standards of integrity, compliance, accuracy, and execution discipline.

Why Join DKSH

At DKSH, we help companies grow in Asia and enable people to perform at their best. You will be part of an organization that values accountability, collaboration, and long‑term partnerships. We offer a dynamic environment where your contributions are visible and where you can build a meaningful career in Market Access / Commercial Operations.