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RESPONSIBILITIES/PRINCIPAL DUTIES:
The Director, Public Affairs & Patient Advocacy, Innovative Medicine Asia Pacific (AP) is a critical regional leadership role, responsible for accelerating our public affairs and patient advocacy efforts across the region. Working closely with the Senior Director, Government Affairs & Policy and the VP, Market Access for AP the role will be a key driver of shaping our operating environment. The newly created role will have people management responsibilities and be a core member of the Innovative Medicine AP Communication & Public Affairs Leadership Team.
The role will:
- Develop, lead and execute innovative public affairs strategies that shape our operating environment and increase patient access to our portfolio of innovative medicines
- Partner with regional strategic marketing (APSO) and market access to identify, develop and execute region-wide public affairs strategies
- Work closely with our Market Communication & Public Affairs Leaders to identify key opportunities to deploy public affairs strategies that have clear, measurable impact at a tangible market level
- Serve as strategic counsel to the APSO Leadership team and APLT on public affairs challenges and opportunities in the region
- Deploy cutting edge ways to measure and track our efforts in the public affairs space
- Build, strengthen and create relationships with critical partners, advocates, NGOs, academics etc. at both the regional and local market level to advance our public affairs interests
- Engage and represent the company’s interests with multi-country trade associations and industry bodies
- Develop an on-going body of work that drives forward our thought leadership in areas of market access, pricing, investment, intellectual property and innovation
- Guide and deploy the investment of our resources to rapidly build and strengthen our teams’ public affairs and patient advocacy capabilities across the region
- Develop robust training approaches and methodologies to embed public affairs as a core capability of our teams AP-wide
- Engage and partner with the global, and other market public affairs team to leverage and share best practice efforts to advance our function globally
- Identify partners that can effective and proactively help us to build this as a strength
- Enable the team to move towards an end-state where public affairs is a core competency for appropriate roles across the entire team (not just the domain of specialists)
- Upskill our business partners and senior business leaders to understand what public affairs is and the opportunities world-class public affairs capabilities can afford our organization
- Help our business partners better understand how public affairs strategies can be utilized and deployed in their businesses
- Nurture and develop our emerging regional capabilities in patient advocacy
- Have leadership responsibility for our patient advocacy efforts in the region
- Partner closely with key marketing and commercial excellence leadership to champion the role of the patient voice in driving our decision making and strategy
- Champion the voice of patients across all forums within the company – helping bring the outside in, and identify opportunities for our teams to interact more frequently and meaningfully with patient advocates
- Have line-management responsibility for the Head of Patient Advocacy Asia Pacific (also a new role)
- Assess and determine the appropriate resourcing needed to continue to build patient advocacy and engagement as a key strength and differentiator for our company
- Actively represent Asia Pacific and engage with regional and global teams across Johnson & Johnson and around the world
- Serve as an active and engaged member of the Asia Pacific Communication & Public Affairs Leadership Team – building a strong function across the region
- Promote the development and movement of talent across the region – building future regional leaders
- Partner incredibly closely with our Government Affairs & Policy and Market Access colleagues across the region to deliver on shared priorities to shape our operating environment
- Work across sector lines in to communicate powerfully as one Johnson & Johnson voice at key external and internal opportunities
- Deliver key regional capability building and best practice sharing initiatives
- Represent Asia Pacific at global forums and on global projects as required
Qualifiche
- Bachelor’s degree and above; advanced degree preferred
- 10-15 years working experience in public affairs and media relations
- Strong public affairs experience required
- Healthcare industry experience preferred
- Deep understand of more than one AP market’s policy environment strongly preferred
- Proactive attitude to identify and address opportunities
- Strategic thinker with ability to develop robust strategies to shape our operating environment – as well as our capabilities as a team to do so
- Flawless English written, verbal and visual communication skills is a must
- Strong connections with regional media outlets
- Experience working with teams across cultures
- Exceptional communication and coordination skills in a complex organization with proven success navigating among multiple stakeholders
- Demonstrated project management skills and the ability to independently manage multiple projects simultaneously across geographies and time zones
- Proven leadership skills
- Cross-cultural leadership capabilities
- Ability to balance short- and long-term priorities
- Budget and agency management experience
- Crisis management experience
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