Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Promoting Access to Patients through Enhancement of Service Delivery Networks (SDNs)

• Perform mapping and scoping of strategic SDNs to be involved in access initiatives, with priority on the private sector and government as may be deemed appropriate.
• Initiate access initiatives with strategic SDNs
• Perform continuous engagement with SDNs including implementation support and monitoring
• Document and evaluate performance of SDNs against criteria on patient access
• Provide recommendations on overall SDN engagement, implementation, and performance evaluation in support of achieving Novartis business goals § Partnerships with Private Hospitals, Channel partners

• Expand Access to Patients through the Health System Strengthening (HSS) Approach

• Support in the conceptualization disruptive patient access initiatives focusing on the areas of patient navigation, screening and diagnosis, treatment initiation, treatment progression and adherence
• Test initiatives with key partners to gather insights on feasibility and impact of access initiatives
• Develop recommendations in support of developing access initiatives and for implementation scale up

• Unlocking Private Healthcare Access Opportunities

• Expand access for biologics in non-traditional private access models (corporate employers and private insurers/brokers), in collaboration with the Commercial, Medical and Patient Access
• Lead the end-to-end engagement process of prioritized private institutions to support expansion of access to Novartis medicines in the self-pay segment.
• Work closely with Commercial, Trade and Supply teams to ensure that patients can access the medicines according to the approved pricing and access schemes
• Co-creation and implementation of novel access models to expand access or reimbursement
• Collaborate with V&A team (eg.Health Economics Manager and the Pricing Manager) and the cross functional team for effective solution creation and implementation

• Mapping and Engaging Stakeholders

• Customer and stakeholder mapping, scoping and profiling of expansion accounts, regular updating of account profiling tool.
• Establish rapport with key decision makers/ stakeholders of the private sector and understand the drug coverage decision-making process of private payors.
• Establish rapport with strategic private and government partners; understand the process of government procurement, formulary inclusion, and Universal Health Care (UHC) initiatives at the national and local government unit (LGU) level.

• Enhancing Internal Access Capability

• Conduct insight-mining activities and share findings to brand stakeholders regarding access pain points in the private market (priority) and government.
• Provide inputs to Access and Commercial stakeholders in designing campaigns and programs targeted at improving awareness, availability and affordability of Novartis medicines
• Ensure awareness and understanding to the One Novartis Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) Framework and promote awareness across the cross-functional teams

• Quality and Pharmacovigilance – Ensure teams ERC to good pharmacovigilance practice (GPVP), quality and adverse event reporting.
• Ensure awareness and understanding of the Novartis Code of Ethics and other ERC guidelines and policies.

Minimum requirements

• University degree Business, Management, Health Policy, or Public Health
• Additional training on the areas of management, public management, health policy, or health economics is a plus
• 8-10 years operational experience in customer-facing roles with some sales leadership including key account management experience a must or 8-10 years’ experience in government (of private) focusing on public health, policy making, health systems management experience a must
• Experience working with healthcare system stakeholder (policymakers, clinicians, pharmacy benefit managers, public/ private payers) desired