Market Access & Corporate Affairs Director

Are you passionate about improving access to care and health outcomes for patients living with diabetes, obesity, and other serious chronic diseases? We are looking for a talented and experienced Market Access & Corporate Affairs Director to join our team at Novo Nordisk. This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in improving access to care at scale for patients in Vietnam and contribute to the purpose of Novo Nordisk of Driving Change for patients with diabetes, obesity and other serious chronic diseases in Vietnam.

If you are ready to make a difference and contribute to our mission of changing lives, read on and apply today for a life-changing career.

About the department

The Market Access & Corporate Affairs Department aims to position Novo Nordisk as a trusted partner, collaborating with key external stakeholders to achieve the following goals, intended to benefit patients in Vietnam and expand access to Novo Nordisk's portfolio by:

• Advocating for policies that promote sustainable, long-term development of the healthcare industry in Vietnam and establish a predictable environment for Novo Nordisk
• Developing and implementing policies and procedural changes to enhance healthcare delivery and patient outcomes in the areas of obesity, diabetes, and other serious chronic diseases
• Improving access to Novo Nordisk innovations through competitive market access strategies
• Establishing meaningful partnerships with various stakeholder groups to support local healthcare systems and vulnerable patient populations
• Strengthening public awareness and advancing Novo Nordisk's external communication objectives

As part of Novo Nordisk, you will have an opportunity to work with extraordinary, energizing and diverse talent where your distinct perspectives and expertise are valued as we work together to change lives for the better.

Key responsibilities

This role requires up to 50% of travel requirements, depending on the business needs. The candidate location can be preferrably HCM City, but also open to consider candidates located in Hanoi.

Market & Patient Access

• Provide leadership in developing and implementing the strategic affiliate market access and government affairs plans, creating supportive HE value documentation and aiding tools for use in their Pricing and Reimbursement (P&R) and Formulary works (national payer levels).
• Design and implement local cross-functional market access and value communication strategies in full alignment with strategic priorities, to enhance inclusion and sustainable access to in-line and pipeline Novo Nordisk portfolio.
• Spearhead initiatives to improve access to care for patients in vulnerable populations

Government Affairs

• Prepare, advise on, and execute government affairs strategy and stakeholder engagement plans.
• Proactively anticipate, mitigate, and implement proactive solutions for external affairs issues that may pose short- and long-term challenges for Novo Nordisk and the therapy areas in which we operate in
• Develop and maintain appropriate information gathering on all competitive activities and healthcare reform trends, ensuring communication of these to relevant stakeholders within the organization.

Policy & Advocacy

• Shaping local market environment by working with a range of stakeholders including national/regional payers, KOLs, policy holders, and media

• Develops sustainable, long-term alliances and mutually beneficial coalitions that run independently of Novo Nordisk with key stakeholders including industry, academia, KOLs, payers to shape our environment
• Promotes portfolio thinking and identifies synergies between therapy areas to optimize policy opportunities; Responsible for establishing Value at Stake analysis, and priorities external issues and opportunities.
• Builds an internal environment where partnerships with external stakeholders are expected and valued to achieve strategic goals.; Ensures that the importance of patient voice in external discussions is understood internally.
• Identifies and shares best practice from other countries, therapy areas and industries.
• Monitor external trends, identify risks and opportunities, and recommend strategic response actions to assist patient access and public affairs goals and develop and sustain collaborations and partnerships with Southeast Asia (BASEA) and critical functional areas within own affiliate (Marketing, Sales, Clinical, Medical & Regulatory)

Corporate Affairs, Communications, and Sustainability

• Represent Novo Nordisk at key external events which may include government or industry related activities.
• Proactively identifying any potential business threats and opportunities and developing corresponding action and communication plans, including crisis communications
• Leads and drives implementation of external communication strategy, supporting Novo Nordisk corporate and therapy area objectives
• Oversee external communications channels and working with APAC Corporate affairs and Vietnam communications team to manage media engagement and share coverage.
• Leading media training and coaching of key spokespeople and the Vietnam and overseeing the implementation of global communication programs across the organization in line with business need.
• Leading the Driving Change strategy and program implementation across the business unit and management team

 
Member of NNVN Leadership team

• Integral member of the leadership team, role models the Novo Nordisk Way and collaborates effectively cross-functionally to drive NNVN mid to long-term strategy
• Keeps patient and customers at the forefront, exhibits growth mindset, strives for ambitious results, drives accountability, and ensures collaboration at all levels
• Creating a 3-5-year strategic corporate affairs plan for the affiliate that aligns functional objectives with affiliate, regional and global direction; Provide strategic counsel to the executive leadership team on communication matters and reputation management;
• Acts as a strategic advisor to Leadership Team on policy issues related to current and future portfolio; Identifying initiatives of other affiliates and Business Areas that could contribute to the affiliate development; Setting standards in the local affiliate by challenging and contributing to the Management Team and/or Cross functional/therapy teams
• Passionate in developing team of direct reports by setting annual objectives, providing coaching, recognition, and career development support.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10-15 years of experience in the related field of market access, corporate affairs, communication, public affairs with proven track record.
• Min. 3-5 years of people management experience will be preferred.
• Business Unit (sales, marketing, market development, national key account) experience is a plus
• Strongly established networks with relevant government institutions would be added advantage. 
• Relevant experiences in global pharma and/or multinational companies are required.
• Public administration, social policy, business administration, communications, or life sciences degree preferred.
• In-depth understanding of corporate and health care system, its policy and the key stakeholders and opinion leaders is required.
• Proven ability to analyze, recommend, lead and implement strategies, projects and initiatives cross-functionally is expected.

Working at Novo Nordisk
At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. We’re 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, through to manufacturing, marketing and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.
 

Contact
 

Kindly upload your CV to our online career page (click on Apply and follow the instructions).
Internal candidates are requested to inform their line manager when applying. 
 

Deadline
Until the completion of recruitment
 

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 serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.

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