What you'd do
- Lead access strategy planning for optimal pricing aligned with business and global priorities
- Lead communication with internal and external stakeholders to ensure patient access in Korea
- Lead local model adaptations to demonstrate product value and generate local data with stakeholders
What they want
- 4-6 years market access or health economics experience in pharma,academia,or HTA agency
- Knowledge of medicine,epidemiology,pharmacoeconomics,biostatistics,and health economic principles
- Expertise in health economic modeling,cost analysis,pricing strategies,and market development
Nice to have
- PharmD,PhD,or advanced degree in pharmacy,medicine,or health sciences
Seoulstart's read
- Visa tier (likely)
- F-2 / F-4 / F-5 / F-6 holders welcome
- Korean language
- Korean not required
- English friendliness
- Medium: English JD, mixed-language workplace
- Context
- Market access roles in Korea require deep Korean healthcare system knowledge; despite English-language posting,Korean language proficiency is practically essential for effective HIRA and medical institution stakeholder engagement.
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Original posting from MSD
Job Description
Market Access Specialist will lead product patient access and closely collaborate with various cross function both in local and global. This role requires resilience and sufficient expertism
What you will do
- Lead the planning of access strategies to ensure optimal pricing and access condition in align with business priorities and global access strategies
- Lead communication with internal and external stakeholders for the responsible products to ensure successful patients access in Korea
- Lead local model adaptations to demonstrate product value and local data generation with the engagement of internal/external stakeholders. (eg. CORE, GMAx and Medical/HTA societies)
- Collaboration with business unis to plan product forecasting and gather competitor intelligence. Also anticipate environmental changes and price/reimbursement impact to maximize business opportunities
WHAT YOU MUST HAVE
To be successful in this role, you will have
- 4~6 years’ experience in market access or HEOR either in pharmaceutical industry, academy or HTA agency required
- Functional Knowledge: Medicine, Epidemiology, Pharmacoeconomics, Statistics
- Skills: Communication, Model adaptation, Data analysis, Negotiation skill and Documentation
- Leadership Behaviors: Customer and Patient focus, Collaboration and Results Driven
- License / Certificate: Pharm D, PhD preferred
Required Skills
Adaptability, Clinical Program Management, Cost Analysis, Data Analysis, Developing Pricing Strategies, Health Economic Modeling, Health Economics, Market Access, Market Development, Market Research, Networking Relationships, Pharmaceutical Pricing, Pricing Processes, Product Management, Strategic Thinking
Preferred Skills
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Employee Status
Regular
Relocation
VISA Sponsorship
Travel Requirements
Flexible Work Arrangements
Not Applicable
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Job Posting End Date
09/30/2026*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.
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