Health Economics & Payer Evidence Director

We're looking for a Health Economics & Payer Evidence Director to join our Global Market Access and Pricing (GMAP) team in one of our Global R&D hubs (Gothenburg, SE; Gaithersburg, USA) to support our Cardiovascular Renal Metabolism (CVRM) portfolio.

If you have in-depth knowledge of health economics and payer evidence requirements and its application to pharmaceutical development in the international environment, this is an opportunity to take on a role with a world-leading pharmaceutical company.

What you'll do
You will have a global senior leadership role and be responsible for setting the strategic HEPE direction for the compounds you are working on, demonstrating the value of our products to patients, payers and health authorities. You will collaborate with Clinical Development, Medical Evidence Generation, Observational Research, and Payer Teams in designing and implementing innovative HEPE strategies and activities for target product profiles/claims, global payer evidence plans, and market access and pricing strategies. An equally important part of your role will be to lead and influence the production of scientific evidence for robust portfolio decisions, global reimbursement dossiers and reimbursement submissions to achieve market access.

Proactively, you will predict and resolve issues that affect market access decisions, and take responsibility for detailed strategic and tactical planning and implementation of payer evidence plans. By being innovative, generating novel approaches and challenging the status quo at the highest levels both internally and externally, you will deliver the strongest evidence package supporting patient access. Part of your remit will involve preparing proposals for outsourced projects and collaborating with local market affiliates to prepare evidence that satisfies payer needs in their markets. You'll also represent health economics an payer evidence in cross-functional project teams to ensure that worldwide payer needs are reflected in our drug development programs. As part of your leadership role, you will empower other functions to support the delivery of payer strategy, anticipating and removing obstacles to their delivery and providing them with expertise, support, challenge and resource as appropriate. You will be a crucial contributor to the continuous development of our HEPE CVRM team, supporting the strategic direction as well as taking on coaching and mentoring tasks for junior members of the team.

Essential requirements for the role
* Confirmed understanding and knowledge of the development process for new molecules to influence development strategies and meet payer needs.
* Understanding of diverse pricing and reimbursement processes to improve reimbursement opportunities.
* Ability to making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems
* Applying a strategic mindset by anticipating future possibilities and translating them to breakthrough strategies as well as being resilient towards setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations
* Drive the publication strategy to support payer needs, generate peer-reviewed scientific publications, as well as effective communication of sophisticated ideas for use with both payers and other partners.
* Capability to build partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives as well as being courageous to address difficult issues.
* Knowledge of international healthcare systems and their changing needs for health economics and payer evidence.

Education, Training and Experience
* Graduate / College degree in biomedical science, business, quantitative subject areas or economics
* Formal post graduate degree in health economics or a related quantitative subject area, or advanced work experience in this field
* Payer, Health Technology Assessment, public health, or health policy experience
* Payer launch experiences at a local, regional or global level (min. ≥3 launches at any level)
* Payer, Health Technology Assessment, public health, or health policy experience
* In-depth knowledge and technical capability in health economics and payer evidence needs, and its application to pharmaceutical development at an international level, especially economic modelling, evidence synthesis, clinical trial design and analyses and other analytical techniques required to support payer needs.



Why AstraZeneca?
At AstraZeneca, we're not afraid to do things differently. When we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because an opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial, finding those moments and recognizing their potential.



So, what's next?
Here we are always working towards a future where all people have the right access to healthcare solutions for life-changing treatment and prevention.
Come and join a talented and agile team that focus on what really matters. A team that's inspired by the direct link between what we do, how this helps to accelerate the business and, ultimately, how this benefits peoples' lives across the world.
Are you already imagining yourself joining us? Great, because we can't wait to hear from you. Welcome with your application, no later than December 8, 2023.



Find out more here
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