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Job Function:
Market Access
Job Sub Function:
Health Economics Market Access
Job Category:
People Leader
All Job Posting Locations:
Pomezia, Roma, Italy
Job Description:
DePuy Synthes is recruiting for an EMEA HEMA Lead, located in Italy or Germany or Switzerland or France or Spain or UK.
Position Summary
We are seeking a strategic and dynamic leader to lead Health Economics & Market Access (HEMA) across EMEA for DePuy Synthes. This role is responsible for defining and executing regional market access, reimbursement, and value strategies, ensuring timely and sustainable patient access to DePuy Synthes’ technologies across diverse EMEA healthcare systems.
Key Responsibilities
Lead EMEA market access and reimbursement strategies for DePuy Synthes specialties and platforms, ensuring regional needs are reflected in global evidence and content strategies.
Depending on the country/market where the role is based, the role may take on additional market responsibilities and, as needed, be directly accountable to the Business Platform.
Drive market access funding strategies and adoption plans at market level (e.g., reimbursement pathways, tenders, and key account access levers), in alignment with EMEA priorities.
Lead EMEA-specific evidence generation and value creation activities, translating insights into locally relevant value messages and tools to support stakeholder engagement.
Shape the external environment by proactively engaging payers and other non-clinical stakeholders to build advocacy, inform access pathways, and advance value-based adoption.
Partner with Regional business leaders, as well as Regulatory, Medical Affairs, and Clinical teams, to shape market access and reimbursement strategies across EMEA.
Work with Global and Regional Clinical & Medical Affairs teams to co-create regional and local evidence strategies for priority technologies and platforms.
Foster strong collaboration between local, cluster, regional, and global HEMA teams, ensuring aligned ways of working and effective communication.
Identify and prioritize cross-regional HEMA initiatives that can be efficiently executed at EMEA level to maximize impact and consistency.
Support local commercial organizations with data, tools, and expertise to overcome access barriers and accelerate new product and technology adoption.
Develop and retain high-potential talent across EMEA, ensuring succession planning and leadership development.
Ensure effective dissemination and utilization of health economic tools and value assets across markets.
Track progress against HEMA priorities, aligning activities with business objectives, timelines, and commitments.
Enable commercial organizations to maximize the impact of value propositions and support innovation adoption across the region.
Key Milestones & Progress Toward Goals
Define and deliver economic value propositions and EMEA market access and reimbursement strategies across the product lifecycle.
Deliver HEMA milestones throughout the pipeline, supporting value-based pricing and access optimization.
Secure optimal and sustainable market access for priority technologies across EMEA, addressing variability in healthcare systems and access pathways.
Key Activities
Act as a regional HEMA point of reference for key access stakeholders, including HTA bodies, payers, and institutional decision-makers.
Oversee regional funding, reimbursement, and access initiatives addressing unmet medical needs through evidence-based differentiation.
Provide leadership for HTA opportunities, supporting strategies to influence and navigate regional and local assessment processes.
Support local teams with evidence-based value drivers for tenders, reimbursement submissions, negotiations, and external communications.
Collaborate with commercial and functional partners to identify priority accounts and initiatives where HEMA can drive measurable business outcomes.
Contribute regional input into global market access and evidence strategies, ensuring EMEA needs are represented.
Build, lead, and develop a high-performing EMEA HEMA organization to execute regional strategies effectively.
Deliver and support Health Economics and value training initiatives for internal stakeholders, in collaboration with commercial education teams.
Ensure compliance with HEMA standards, local regulations, and DePuy Synthes quality and governance requirements.
Qualifications
Extensive experience in Health Economics, Market Access & Reimbursement, preferably within Medical Devices / MedTech.
Proven experience leading regional, cross-functional, and multicultural teams in complex matrix organizations.
Strong understanding of EMEA healthcare systems, HTA processes, and hospital funding mechanisms.
Demonstrated ability to translate complex clinical and economic data into actionable value strategies.
Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
Strong passion for value-based healthcare and improving patient access to innovative technologies.
Job Track
People Leader
Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone orthopaedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements, including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, as may be required, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and approvals. Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that, following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes and your employment would be governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to you by DePuy Synthes at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.
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Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Agility Jumps, Commercial Awareness, Competitive Landscape Analysis, Developing Others, Global Market, Health Economics, Health Intelligence, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Market Knowledge, Market Opportunity Assessment, Operations Management, Performance Measurement, Pricing Strategies, Program Management, Regulatory Compliance, Strategic Change
The anticipated base pay range for this position is:
€108,000.00 - €186,300.00
Benefits:
In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions. Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement, programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well-being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.
*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.