Health Economics & Payer Evidence Lead CVRM

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

We're now looking for an experienced Health Economics & Payer Evidence Lead ,Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism (CVRM) to join our team in one of our Global R&D hubs to support our CVRM portfolio.

Main duties and accountabilities

You will have a global leadership role and be responsible for shaping and delivering the evidence required to demonstrate the value of our products to payers and health authorities. You will collaborate with Clinical Development, Medical Evidence Generation, Observational Research, and Payer Teams in designing and implementing innovative health economic and payer evidence 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 or influence the production of scientific evidence for robust portfolio decisions, global reimbursement dossiers and reimbursement submissions to achieve market access.

You will proactively contribute to evidence planning, predict and resolve issues that affect market access decisions, and take responsibility for detailed strategic and tactical planning and implementation of payer evidence plans. Part of your remit will involve preparing proposals for outsourced health economics projects and collaborating with local market affiliates to prepare evidence that satisfies payer needs in their markets. You'll also represent health economics and payer evidence in cross-functional project teams to ensure that worldwide payer needs are reflected in drug development programs.

Essential requirements

* Proven understanding and knowledge of the development process for new molecules in order to influence development strategies and meet payer needs.
* Understanding of diverse pricing and reimbursement processes to maximise reimbursement opportunities through appropriate and timely payer evidence generation and analytics.
* Ability to influence without authority and being a strong collaborator.
* Leadership skills and problem solving capabilities, demonstrated by an ability to evaluate threats and opportunities for health economics strategies and modify them as appropriate
* Well-developed conceptual and integrative thinking with the capability to access internal and external resources for advice
* Ability to implement projects with a high degree of autonomy, including engaging key stakeholders.
* Capability to communicate technical material clearly in writing and oral presentations to both scientific and commercial audiences.
* Driving the publication policy 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.
* Interaction with health technology appraisal authorities and advisors/key external experts in preparing materials for scientific advice or reimbursement submissions
* Knowledge of international healthcare systems and their changing needs for health economic and payer evidence.

Education, Training and Experience

* Graduate / College degree in biomedical science, business, quantitative disciplines or economics
* Formal post graduate degree in health economics or a related quantitative discipline, or substantial work experience in the discipline
* Payer launch experience at a local or global 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.



If you are interested, apply now!

Welcome with your application no later than April 3rd.

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