Health Economics, Market Access,

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. Learn more at

Job Function:

Market Access

Job Sub Function:

Health Economics Market Access

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Riga, Rīga, Latvia

Job Description:

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.

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Role purpose

In order to support patient access to the products of Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine and secure efficient treatment for patients:

• Crafting and delivering optimized market access strategies for the portfolio, including crafting and implementing relevant pricing strategies, by collaborating with cross-functional teams

• Conducting pricing analysis for reimbursement as well as price/volume scenario building, handling accurate pricing data (incl pricing approvals), communication with the Payer

• Chip in to working with cost-effectiveness and budget impact models, health economic studies, real world evidence studies, presentations and publications.
   

Key Role Activities: What?

• Develop and implement local Access & Pricing strategy across the product lifecycle

• Partner with Cross functional teams to implement access plans

• Partner with senior leadership on HEMAR strategy execution, deliver decision-ready insights

• Chip in for health‑economic results: budget impact models, cost‑effectiveness analyses and rationalization analyses

• Build reimbursement‑ready pricing analyses

• Conduct international reference pricing (IRP) research and assess future price-change scenarios

• Prepare and submit applications for price approvals, annual price revisions and reimbursement.

• Participate in pricing & reimbursement (P&R) negotiations, engage directly with payers to advance access objectives, provide negotiation and budget impact materials.

• Collect and analyze payer database insights (reimbursement values, contracting trends).

• Conduct field‑based engagement to capture payer/customer insights and ensure local implementation of access strategies.

• In collaboration with Medical Affairs collect local market data on patient treatment pathways, health outcomes, cost data and other data supporting market access, market maintenance and product differentiation

• Collaborate with local teams and external vendors on reimbursement dossier preparation

• Support Regional and EMEA HEMAR teams with required data, intelligence and local context.

• Monitor competitor market access activities and provide regular updates on reimbursement changes
   

How?:

• Be innovative and find new ways of doing business to reach patient access to Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine pharmaceuticals and services

• Collaborate with the Access managers, HE Specialists, Medical and Business Managers for the alignment of plans and collection of required inputs

• Demonstrate strategical, logical thinking in an evidence based manner

• Be a valued partner at all strategic levels in relevant therapeutic areas

• Represent Latvia in the EMEA TA community and ensure information flow between EMEA functional network (FN) and country Team

• Serve as point of country contact for EMEA Market Access in appointed Therapy Area and disseminate information to local team members
   

Skills & Experience:

• Education in Lifesciences/Pharmacology/Biomedical/Health economics or similar

• Having taken projects from concept through to delivery, direct experience with local authority submissions is highly preferable.

• Strong commercial understanding and a strong strategic demeanor

• Up to date knowledge of country Healthcare environment, regulations, policies and procedures and the associated market (patient) access challenges

• Understanding of the link between clinical data and health economics

• Independence and good communication and interpersonal skills, comfortable in matrix organisation and multi-national environment.

• Excellent skills in Microsoft Excel, experience in working with systems and databases, PowerPoint for executive outputs.

• Analytical approach, ability to turn data into insights for different customers

• Flexible and adaptable style with the ability to learn and assimilate information quickly

• Proficient written and spoken English

We offer attractive conditions of employment and possibilities for further career growth within our company.

For this position we are offering an annual gross salary starting at 49,000 EUR (excl. variable component).

Depending on your skills, qualifications and experience this can be negotiated.

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Business Savvy, Coaching, Communication, Competitive Landscape Analysis, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Customer Intelligence, Go-to-Market Strategies, Health Economics, Health Intelligence, Market Knowledge, Market Opportunity Assessment, Organizing, Pricing Strategies, Problem Solving, Regulatory Compliance, Relationship Building, Strategic Thinking

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