Senior Director, Public Affairs, APAC

• Navigate the current healthcare/government market access processes and influence key opinion leaders within the environment to change future rules and approaches.
• Engage influential conversations and represent EW's interest in an industry wide and develop strong relationships with key stakeholders (KOL, payers, Health Tech Assessment, government public/governmental affairs).
• Develop and plan in-country and regional market access projects and activities with accountability for successful completion of all project deliverables.
• Perform constant monitoring about the changes in the access policy related to funding environment and conditions for the Edwards Lifesciences portfolio.
• Be an internal expert on reimbursement of designated technologies and identify risks and opportunities for business planning processes.
• Understand internal and external access environment related to medical device, including competitive landscape and impact of government health policies on Edwards's business, and devise plans to leverage or manage upcoming changes and trends.

• 2. Develop, coordinate and drive government affairs strategies for Edwards, balancing appropriate priorities across the Business Groups and aligning with overall business strategy and the threats and opportunities in the external policy environment.
• Map key government and other stakeholder relationships considering the strategy and priorities and drive a plan to build and sustain excellent relationships with those stakeholders.
• Build a professional network to track healthcare policy, legislation, regulations, and reimbursement trends. This includes government bodies, interest groups, payers, and medical societies.
• Position Edwards as a thought leader and reliable and credible partner to government officials who shape the health policy environment, through understanding government policy priorities and shaping and advocating Edwards strategies in relation to government priorities.
• Leverage Edwards global corporate and regional JAPAC resources, support and best practices to support country strategies, through proactive participation and engagement with JAPAC and Global government affairs teams and coordinating bodies.
• Lead and coordinate the overall engagement with country industry associations to ensure Edwards' position maintaining strong leadership in appropriate industry associations and drives associations for effective policy advocacy on priorities of concern to Edwards.

• 3. Represent the country/regional market access and government affairs team to work in collaboration with JAPAC Public Affairs and Global Public Affairs, as well as cross-functional business partners on the special strategic partnerships/projects including, but not limiting to, regional evidence generation and dissemination, regional stakeholder engagements with regional/global institutions to drive value recognition and addressing common access challenges across countries.
• Other incidental duties.

What you'll need (Required):
• Bachelor's Degree in health-care related field Health-Economics, Bioscience (including Medicine, Pharmacy) Business, Political sciences and previous experience in reimbursement and/or health economics or healthcare policy .

• Health-care field experience may be Pharmaceutical/Medical Device Required and
• Master's Degree or equivalent in related field Experience working in a regulated industry Preferred.

What else we look for (Preferred):
• Track record of successful reimbursement and funding achievements for medical technologies (pharma or devices).
• Knowledge of epidemiology, clinical study design and analysis of healthcare administrative databases including analysis, interpretation, and reporting.
• Deep knowledge of the reimbursement/funding policies in country of responsibility.
• Strong communication skills, oral and written.
• Ability to lead successfully projects and teams in a matrix environment and operate in lean matrix organization.
• Proven successful project management skills.
• Recognized as an expert in Public Affairs, Government Affairs and Market Access through great understanding of related aspects of pricing & reimbursement processes, healthcare system, policies and trends.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to craft and drive key messages that support Edwards strategy and influence stakeholders.
• Leverage the JAPAC resources in support of the Public Affairs agenda.
• Strong network among government officials, policy makers and payers and an understanding of how things get done.
• Strong Business Acumen with To-do attitude and sense of urgency.
• The incumbent of the role is an active part of the regional Leadership Team in the given region. It is expected that he/she will actively contribute to all leadership responsibilities, such as participation in local meetings, communication, preparation / co facilitation of management reviews, regional strategy days, regional level TDR reviews etc.
• Ability to work and excel within a fast-paced, dynamic, and constantly changing work environment.
• Interacts internally and externally with executive level management, requiring negotiation of extremely critical matters; influences policymaking.
• Dedicated to quality client service and pro-active and responsive to client needs.
• Develop peer, cross functional and cross business relationships to maximize best practice sharing and team effectiveness.
• Provide leadership and direction to large cross-functional teams to successfully implement global enterprise systems and related solutions.
• Develop relationships and leverage them to influence change.
• Support and solicit input from team members at all levels within the organization.
• Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control.