About us:
Access Partnership is the world’s leading tech policy consultancy. We advise corporates on how to bring emerging technologies to market and support governments in developing fair and effective regulatory frameworks that enable all stakeholders to benefit. Our firm uniquely combines expertise in public policy, economics, and strategic communications to deliver impactful outcomes. With a growing global presence, we operate from offices in London, Brussels, and Washington, D.C., and across major Asian cities including Bangkok, Hanoi, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, and Singapore.
Practice Summary
Access Partnership is a global advisory firm that makes innovation work for the world by helping governments, industry, and development partners navigate complex regulatory and policy environments. With more than 150 consultants across 39 countries, we combine a strong global footprint with region-specific technical expertise and on-the-ground presence across Asia and other key markets.
Our Health & Life Sciences team brings deep experience in health systems strengthening, health financing & policy, and market access strategy. We work at the intersection of technical analysis and ecosystem shaping—partnering with ministries of health and finance, regulatory authorities, biopharmaceutical companies, and multilateral institutions to translate evidence into policy reform and sustainable access pathways. Our experts have served within governments, global foundations, USAID, WHO, and development banks, giving us a practical understanding of how policy is designed, financed, and operationalized—and how to align incentives across the broader health ecosystem.
The result is a distinctive model: technical depth, real-world policy engagement, and in-market execution capability—enabling clients to unlock access, shape sustainable solutions, and deliver measurable impact across diverse health systems.
Role
As a Director within the Health & Life Sciences, you will play a key role in Practice leadership, further expanding our market presence, client portfolio, and technical expertise, serving as a people and project manager and a thought leader.
You will be a recognized thought leader in Asia-Pacific in public health, market access, health financing, or health sector government affairs, and will use that expertise to drive business development, oversee project delivery, and mentor the consultant team to drive the long-term growth of the Practice.
You will play a senior role on projects, ensuring rigorous quality assurance across all project outputs. This includes leading multiple consulting project teams, managing the relationship with our client, and contributing your individual expertise to problem-solving on technical, project, and client management issues. You will also lead cross-Practice teams, to leverage subject matter expertise from across the firm in areas such as AI, digital, economic strategy, global government affairs, and connectivity and financial services.
You will have a solid background in consulting, a strong grasp of health systems and policy concepts, and a passion for working with clients to solve real-world problems. You will also be intellectually curious and thrive on playing a role in addressing challenges at the intersection of healthcare, economics, public policy, and technology. You will be an adept problem-solver, able to support your project teams in quickly identifying critical issues and guiding them in the approach to resolve them.
You will be accountable for commercial growth of the Practice and contribute to operational excellence of the Practice, as well as be expected to actively drive growth in key client accounts as well as bring in new clients to the Practice and the firm more broadly.
Responsibilities
Client impact
Ensure that client proposals, research reports, presentation materials, and other products are at a client-ready level of quality.
Project delivery
Ensure strong project governance, so that the structure of accountability and responsibility supports effective project delivery and output quality, as a means of ensuring client delivery success and long-term client retention.
Practice management
Strategic Planning & Growth
Contribute to the strategic vision for the Practice team, within the context of the firm’s strategy, so as to contextualize tactical objectives, and help engender support for achieving the firm’s and Practice’s goals.
Requirements
A degree in public health, health economics, public policy, or other relevant discipline from a reputable university. A post-graduate qualification (i.e., Master's, MBA, or PhD) would be highly regarded, although not essential.
At least 15 years of experience working with senior decision-makers in APEC economies or ASEAN countries, preferably at a top-tier consulting firm, health companies or other healthcare related sector, or in a senior public sector role.
Commercial and strategic acumen, including experience managing project budgets, resources, and profitability.
What we offer you:
We work in a flexible hybrid model, typically aligning each employee to one of our global offices, with each person spending 2 days per week in the office, and 3 days remote.
Our diverse, international client base of technology giants, start-ups and governments will provide the opportunity to work on multiple projects on behalf of industry leading companies.
We boast a collaborative working environment, social events and a robust support system. We are committed to providing training and professional development for all colleagues.
