Pricing & reimbursement specialist introduced as a new job

Various new jobs were introduced in the bio sector

Korea Employment Information Service adds 156 new occupations to the Korean Dictionary of Occupation

10 new jobs in the bio sector were added…Patient Safety & Quality Coordinator also added as an occupation

New occupations such as ‘Pricing & reimbursement specialist’ and ‘biopharmaceutical candidate substance researcher’ were added as new occupations in the bio and pharmaceutical industry.

 

On the 19th, the Korea Employment Information Service (President Young-Jun Kim) announced it had added 156 new occupations in the fields of life sciences, chemistry, energy and environment, construction, agriculture, forestry, and fisheries that emerged as new occupations due to factors such as the development of medical technology to accommodate the aging population and the integration of Intelligent information Technology, into the Korean Dictionary of Occupation.

 

First, a Pricing & reimbursement specialist was introduced as a new job.

 

In the dictionary, pricing & reimbursement specialist is defined as one who sets the price of new drugs that will be sold on the market and has the role of negotiating drug prices for new prescription drugs with the health authorities.

 

A clinical data manager manages and supports clinical data for the overall progress of the clinical trial, including clinical data management plan development, database structure development, data entry, inconsistent data checking, logical error checking, medical coding, and data locking.

 

Also, the patient safety & quality coordinator was listed as a new occupation.

 

The patient safety & quality coordinator performs tasks related to patient safety and medical quality improvement in medical institutions and performs a series of patient safety activities to prevent and manage patient safety-related accidents.

 

Also, ▲ Biopharmaceutical candidate substance researcher and ▲ Biopharmaceutical process development researcher were newly listed, due to increased new investment in new biopharmaceutical development such as cell therapy products, boosting the biopharmaceutical industry and incorporating data-based artificial intelligence technology.

 

In addition, ▲Biopharmaceutical clinical/non-clinical researcher ▲Biopharmaceutical quality assurance technician ▲Biopharmaceutical quality tester ▲Biochemical strain management researcher ▲Biochemical product culture researcher ▲Biopharmaceutical culture researcher ▲Biopharmaceutical isolation and purification manager were added as new occupations.

 

.Also, in addition to the ▲advanced life-sustaining treatment directive counselors, which have risen as an issue due to the rise of the super-aging society, ▲self-reliance support managers, and ▲consumer financial protection experts who support youth independence and the rights of financial consumers, were newly listed

 

.Joong-Jin Kim, a researcher at the Korea Employment Information Service, said, “Digital information technologies such as data-based artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and Digital Twins are driving changes in the world of work by being applied to all industries, including life, construction, and agriculture

 

.New occupations have been appearing in line with the establishment of various legislations to support the happy and safe life of the public, so it is necessary to pay attention to these jobs in terms of career preparation.” Meanwhile, the Employment Information Service has been systematically researching and analyzing the rapidly changing occupation world and publishing the Korean Dictionary of Occupation to support people's career choices and utilize it in the government's job policy

 

.Newly registered occupations according to the survey can be searched in the 'Korean Dictionary of Occupation’ under the 'Vocational Path’ menu at Worknet (www.work.go.kr).