Johnson & Johnson
Health Economics & Market Access (HEMA) Manager - Middle East
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 2 - 5 yrs
Job expiry date: 09/10/2026
Job overview
Date posted
25/08/2026
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 20,000 - 30,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
2 - 5 yrs
Seniority
Manager
Qualification
Masters degree
Expiration date
09/10/2026
Job description
In this role you will lead the health economics and market access activities for the Surgery portfolio at Johnson & Johnson MedTech, including timely market access strategies and market development support. You will develop and execute market access strategies for new technologies and existing portfolios, supporting the development of HEMA tools that translate complex messages into simple statements the sales force can easily articulate. You are responsible for building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders, including payers, healthcare professionals, and governmental bodies. Your responsibilities include working closely with marketing, clinical, and sales teams to ensure alignment of market access activities with overall business objectives, and providing input into the evidence generation strategy for new product development. You are accountable for health economic input into novel local commercial initiatives requiring substantiation of value, including value-based procurement and value-based agreements. You will support the adaptation and local approval of regionally developed HEMA tools, and you are responsible for partnering with sales and marketing to deliver specialist health economic and reimbursement tools to customers, spending time in the field.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Develop and execute market access strategies for new technologies and existing portfolios
- Support the development of HEMA tools, translating complex messages into simple statements for the sales force
- Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including payers, healthcare professionals, and governmental bodies
- Work closely with marketing, clinical, and sales teams to ensure alignment of market access activities with business objectives
- Provide input into the evidence generation strategy for new product development
- Identify local opportunities for health economic evidence generation
- Provide health economic input into novel local commercial initiatives requiring substantiation of value, including value-based procurement and agreements
- Support the adaptation and local approval of regionally developed HEMA tools
- Partner with sales and marketing to deliver specialist health economic and reimbursement tools to customers, spending time in the field
Experience & skills
- Hold an advanced degree in Health Economics, Health Policy, Public Health, Economics, Healthcare Management, Epidemiology, Outcomes Research, or another relevant discipline
- Demonstrate a solid understanding of the principles of HTA and health economics
- Show a strong track record of successful engagement with clinical and non-clinical stakeholders
- Bring more than 3 years of experience in medical devices, healthcare, pharmaceutical industry, an HTA or payer organization, healthcare consultancy, academic institution, or research organization; MedTech experience in relevant locations is preferred
- Demonstrate good understanding of processes within healthcare systems and payer bodies
- Show an appetite to build on knowledge and experience of market access and health economics
- Demonstrate the ability to lead through influence and partner effectively with commercial teams in a cross-functional matrix environment
- Show strong project management orientation with the ability to prioritize and manage complex projects to completion
- Demonstrate the ability to synthesize clinical and health economic evidence into messages understood by non-clinical stakeholders
- Show the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional matrix to deliver objectives on time and within budget
- Demonstrate the ability to work effectively both individually and in a team environment
- Show strong internal and external communication skills
- Experience engaging with payers is desirable
- Familiarity with healthcare systems database sources is desirable
- A track record of overcoming complex market access challenges is desirable
- Experience developing business cases, value briefs, and value propositions is desirable