Head Latam Health Policy Leader

Job Title: HEAD LATAM HEALTH POLICY LEADER

Job Location: Washington, District of Columbia (Hybrid)

Job type: Direct hire

Flexible work-from-home days

Industry: Pharmaceutical / Biotech

Job Category: Sales / Marketing - Public Relations

Seniority Level - Director

Visa Candidate Considered: Yes

SCREENING QUESTIONS

Have you had previous experience with healthy policies in Latin America?

Are you fluent in Spanish or Portuguese?

Purpose of the role

Thought Leadership in Access and Innovation (pipeline)

Liaison to regional and global policy networks and foster collaboration between countries in the area and beyond

Leadership in defining regional policy priorities (derived from Pharma international and GPS priorities) and assembling teams of guiding country policy experts to fully implement the vision of Health Policy and respective leverage of technology and state of art policy strategies and processes.

Facilitate the interaction with Washington DC and US-based organizations and affiliates.

Partner to key health institutions and stakeholders based in Washington/US (such as PAHO, World Bank, IDB, Health Think Tanks, ISPOR, HTA, certain U.S. government agencies, Latin American embassies and delegations on visits, Foundations (such as Clinton or Gates Foundation, etc.), Fifarma, Pharma and Bio. For Global Organizations the activities with the stakeholders have to be coordinated closely with the Global and eventually US team.

Manage the key relationships with supranational organizations in LATAM (for example PAHO, Fifarma, Unasur, Mercosur etc) to shape the regional and national agendas.

Relocation assistance is being provided.

Desired profile

Science degree or degree in international relations, business or communication with experience in Health Policy

Strong interest in Public Policy especially in Health policy

Excellent communication and influencing skills.

Strategic mindset

People leadership experience in a matrix environment (i.e., experience building and managing agile teams)

Excellent Spanish, excellent English, Portuguese a plus

Based in Washington D.C. with a willingness to travel about 30-40% of the time.