Policy & Access Chapter Lead (Director)

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The Position

• Job Title: Policy & Access Chapter Lead / Director
• Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
• Department: Policy & Access
• Reports to: General Manager
• Career Band: People Leader

About Roche Pharma Vietnam

At Roche, we believe every patient deserves access to transformative healthcare innovations. Roche Pharma Vietnam is committed to co-creating sustainable healthcare solutions, pioneering value-based access, and shaping public health policy to ensure that more patients benefit from our standard-of-care treatments sooner.

Your Opportunity

As a member of the Roche Pharma Vietnam Leadership Team, the Policy & Access Chapter Lead / Director sets the strategic vision to shape external healthcare policy, unlock sustainable financing pathways, and expand broad patient access nationwide.

In this senior people-leadership role, you will empower an agile chapter of access and policy professionals, represent Roche across high-level government platforms, and partner closely with APAC and Global networks to drive systemic healthcare transformation.

Key Responsibilities

Executive Leadership & Strategy Co-Creation:

• Serve on the Roche Pharma Vietnam Leadership Team to co-create, embed, and execute the affiliate's long-term strategic agenda, aligning local priorities with APAC and Global frameworks.
• Champion a culture grounded in Roche's core values: Respect, Courage, Integrity, Passion, and Trust.

Health Policy & Ecosystem Shaping:

• Build long-term, trust-based strategic partnerships with key authorities, medical societies, key opinion leaders (KOLs), and health financing stakeholders.
• Lead advocacy initiatives positioning healthcare and life sciences as priority national sectors.
• Advocate for scalable care pathways, expanded screening, early diagnosis, and decentralized care delivery across priority therapeutic areas.

Access & Health Economics (HTA):

• Act as the organization’s authority on pricing strategy, reimbursement policy, and health economic affairs.
• Drive sustainable funding frameworks, innovative public-private access models, and early access pathways for pipeline assets and upcoming launches.
• Guide chapter members in generating robust local Real-World Evidence (RWE), Health Technology Assessment (HTA) submissions, and value-demonstration narratives for payers and authorities.

People Leadership & Capability Building:

• Coach, mentor, and inspire a high-performing chapter using agile ways of working—fostering autonomous, customer- and disease-centric squads.
• Oversee talent acquisition, chapter rotations, retention, succession planning, and individual career development.
• Optimize chapter resource allocation (budget, talent, capability) toward high-impact portfolio priorities.

Governance, Compliance & Regional Integration:

• Maintain uncompromising adherence to local pharmaceutical laws, the Roche Code of Conduct, and safety/pharmacovigilance reporting standards (including adverse event reporting within 24 hours).
• Actively collaborate across the APAC Regional Access & Policy network to import best practices and scale multi-market solutions.

Who You Are

Education: Advanced degree (Master’s or equivalent preferred) in Public Health, Health Economics, Public Policy, Pharmacy, Medicine, Business Administration, or a related field.

Experience:

• Proven leadership track record in Market Access, Health Policy, Pricing & Reimbursement, or Government Affairs within the pharmaceutical, biotech, or healthcare sector in Vietnam.
• Demonstrated success leading, mentoring, and developing cross-functional or chapter teams in modern, collaborative operating models.

Domain Expertise:

• In-depth understanding of Vietnamese Pharmaceutical Law, healthcare financing structures, tender mechanisms, and the regulatory/reimbursement landscape.
• Strong working proficiency in Health Technology Assessment (HTA) principles, value-based pricing, and health economics.

Leadership Competencies & Mindset:

• System Thinker & Strategic Agilist: Ability to synthesize complex external trends and translate them into actionable, multi-year policy roadmaps.
• Empowering People Leader: Passion for servant leadership, coaching high-performing talent, and removing organizational roadblocks.
• Executive Presence & Influence: Exemplary stakeholder engagement skills with the gravitas to represent Roche before senior government dignitaries and international bodies.

• Languages: Professional fluency in both Vietnamese and English (written and verbal).

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.