Are you passionate about ensuring patient access to life-changing therapies? Do you have experience in market access strategy and negotiations? We are looking for a Senior Market Access Specialist at Novo Nordisk. If you are ready to make a difference and contribute to improving patient lives, read on and apply today for a life-changing career.
About the department
Novo Nordisk’s Market Access and Public Affairs (MAPA) team engages diverse stakeholders across political and healthcare landscapes to forge solutions that drive patient access to innovative products. We strive to deliver the best possible outcomes for patients with diabetes, obesity, growth hormone deficiencies and rare bleeding disorders through mutual wins for both Novo Nordisk and our Market Access customers. Our passion for helping people live better lives and our award-winning product pipeline can only be as effective as our ability to provide life-changing information to healthcare providers, key stakeholders and policymakers. Our Market Access and Public Affairs professionals ensure that the latest therapies and products reach the people who need them most, by creating an environment where innovation and chronic disease management drive optimal health outcomes. Are you ready to realize your potential?
The position
With due recognition of Novo Nordisk's vision, values, and policies, and in accordance with Novo Nordisk's strategies and business objectives, the Senior Market Access Specialist will hold responsibility for applying, following, and obtaining approval for prices of all NN products in accordance with relevant legislation/regulations and NN SOPs, as well as assisting in preparing reimbursement dossiers. Other role expectations are as follows, but is not limited to:
- Prepare health economic dossiers for new drugs to secure price approvals and support National Health Insurance (NHI) reimbursement guideline extensions using expertise in collaboration with Global MAPA and Health Economics & Outcomes Research (HEOR) teams.
- Manage a local agency to adapt HEOR models for both new and core products, oversee government affairs concerning cost-benefit issues of Novo Nordisk Korea's products, and assess new pipeline products and research.
- Regularly screens and monitors reference country price developments, prepares and submits price applications to Health Insurance Rereview & Assessment Service (HIRA), and manages legal documentations from HQ for official price applications, including price exemption cases and internal approvals.
- Responsible for managing pricing and reimbursement activities across the product lifecycle, with a strong focus on post-launch price management.
- Monitors and proactively manages pricing risks, including price-volume agreements, generic entry, and policy-driven price adjustments.
Leads re-negotiation and maintenance of reimbursement conditions by leveraging new evidence, market insights, and payer engagement.
- Ensures compliance with global and local pricing governance while aligning cross-functional stakeholders to optimize sustainable access and revenue.
- Monitors market reimbursement developments, conducts price analyses using reference pricing systems, and assists in preparing reports, analyses, and presentations on pricing, reimbursement, and value argumentation as requested by the line manager.
- Collaborate with key functions to create value dossiers, communicate HE developments to leverage business opportunities, manage HEOR agencies for Novo Nordisk Korea's Pricing & Reimbursement strategies, participate in HE/HTA platforms, supervise study budgets, and ensure adherence to Business Ethics and Compliance requirements.
Qualifications
- A bachelor or higher degree in pharmacy, economics, public health, statistics or HEOR, or equivalent training as a health provider.
- Previous experience of at least 3 years in academia, pharmaceutical industry or HIRA working with the field of HEOR or market access
- Qualified to analyse HIRA’s HEOR criteria and the regulations related with Market access.
- Good proficiency of English (speaking and writing), Performance oriented mindset and negotiation skills are required.
- Focus on ethics, compliance, and confidentiality.
- This position is only open for local Koreans, with native level fluency and knowledge of Korea healthcare regulations and reimbursement policies.
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).
Deadline
Until the completion of recruitment.
Applications will be screened on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
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.
