Building trusted partnerships is an essential way we work together to deliver meaningful impact to patients’ lives. The Market Access function is a strategic and multidisciplinary role dedicated to enabling our innovative medical technologies to be accessible, reimbursable, and adopted by healthcare providers. Your work will not simply focus on improving access; together with talented team members, you'll contribute to better health outcomes for patients across the globe.
How you will make an impact:
• Coordinating and optimizing market access strategies across JAPAC, aligning global BU and GHER objectives with local needs to ensure optimal product funding, reimbursement/payment, and patient access.
• Empowering local teams with resources, tools, and expertise to improve market access success in individual countries, and helping to shape and maintain regional policies that reward and value innovation.
• Drive alignment across countries from evidence generation, evidence dissemination and pricing & reimbursement to ensure the optimal market access strategy for each of Edwards Lifesciences current and pipeline technologies at the regional level:
> Coordinate and implement regional market access initiatives partnering with local and JAPAC cross functional teams and resources.
> Convey global BU/GHER strategies, product pipelines, and best practices to country MA/GA leads, and communicate country-level evidence/dossier requirements to the global team (upstream).
> Work in collaboration with the GHER team to develop regional innovative health economic strategies, value assessment tools, and economic evaluations of new technology.
> Monitor changes in the health policy and funding environment for the assigned BU & portfolio at the regional level.
> Develop and support a comprehensive understanding of the external market access environment and policy process, Health Technology Assessment organizations (HTA), and healthcare decision-maker environment relevant to assigned BU responsibilities.
> Serve as the regional contact person for GHER and other global business partners for market access-related activities for JAPAC, and work in coordination with country market access and government affairs teams to accomplish objectives.
• Market Access Stakeholder relationship and management:
> Establish, maintain and strengthen a network of contacts with market access stakeholders including payers, HTA bodies and procurement agencies specific to assigned BU responsibilities.
> Support local country-level engagement and leverage regional efforts to drive the market access initiatives/agenda of interest specific to the assigned BU.
> Work with designated trade and business associations on political, legislative, regulatory and communications issues of importance to the company in country and/or JAPAC region.
• Work in collaboration with JAPAC Public Affairs and Global Public Affairs, as well as cross-functional business partners on special strategic partnerships/projects.
• Other incidental duties
What you’ll need (Required):
• Required a bachelor’s degree or equivalent in healthcare-related fields.
• Required a minimum of 8 years’ experience of market access, health economics and reimbursement, outcomes research or relevant fields.
• Experience with market access environment and ability to effectively communicate and incorporate regional requirements in overall strategic plans.
• Strong business acumen and analytical skills to provide insight into key market access issues.
• Ability to develop strategy, drive execution, and deliver results.
What else we look for (Preferred):
• Communicate complicated matters in a simple, structured way to internal and external stakeholders.
• Proven successful project management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong English-speaking ability and clear, concise communication at all levels with strong speaking, presentation and written communication skills.
• Self-motivated, goal-oriented with high level of energy.
• Flexibility to collaborate with other corporate functional groups, internal and external.
• 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.
Edwards Lifesciences Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) match complemented by a separate profit‑sharing contribution. These elements add meaningful long‑term value to total compensation.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An employee stock purchase plan with a discount and look‑back feature, alongside stock awards for eligible roles, provides notable upside. Program expansions indicate continued accessibility.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time‑off policies include generous PTO, company holidays, and a year‑end holiday shutdown. These offerings enhance work‑life support when available at the site.
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What We Do
Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE: EW), is the global leader in patient-focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring. We thrive on discovery and expanding the boundaries of medical technology, serving patients in 100+ countries, with the help of our employees in areas including Clinical Affairs, Quality Engineering, Research & Development, Regulatory Affairs, Sales & Marketing, corporate functions and more. Our roots date back to 1958 when Miles Lowell Edwards, a retired engineer with a background in hydraulics and fuel pump operations, set out to build the first artificial heart. Edwards believed the heart could be mechanized and was encouraged by Dr. Albert Starr to focus on developing an artificial heart valve. After just two years, the first Starr-Edwards mitral valve was developed and successfully placed in a patient. This innovation spawned Edwards Laboratories. Miles’ fascination with healing the heart and helping patients with heart disease stemmed from his own experience with rheumatic fever as a teenager and continues to fuel our patient-first culture today. Today, we are as passionate about providing innovative solutions for people fighting cardiovascular disease as we have ever been. It's our Credo. It takes integrity, collaboration, innovation, and focus. We are leaders in the design and manufacture of tissue replacement heart valves and repair products as well as advanced hemodynamic monitoring. We partner with physicians to innovate products designed to help patients live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. Our work is both rewarding and a privilege. The importance of what we do defines our approach. We work together to create an environment where ideas can flourish and we provide our people with the resources, expertise and support to bring those ideas to life. For our legal terms and trademarks, please visit: https://www.edwards.com/legal/legal-terms
