Associate Principal Scientist, Health Economics
Associate Principal Scientist, Health Economics
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$ 153800 - 242200
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Job Description
The Associate Principal Scientist Health Economics will report to the Executive Director BARDS (Biostatistics and Research Decision Sciences). He/She will have the primary responsibility for strategic development use of highquality economic models and tools to generate business insights and to demonstrate the value of our companys products to relevant stakeholders such as payers health technology assessment (HTA) agencies healthcare decision makers providers and patients.
The Associate Principal Scientist Health Economics will serve as the HEDS (Health Economic and Decision Sciences) lead on one or more value evidence team(s) and work closely with the crossfunctional team(s) to develop and refine the integrated value evidence strategy and evidence generation across all phases of product development. He/She will also work closely with the HEOR (health economics and outcomes research) teams in key markets to support local market access. The position will focus on general & specialty medicines throughout their development cycle.
Responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:
Provision of strategic insights into the development and refinement of the integrated value evidence strategy and evidence generation from the perspective of health economics
Development and maintenance of high quality global health economic analyses and tools in house or in collaboration with an external vendor to provide critical business insights and to fully demonstrate the value of our Companys products using established and novel methodologies. The analyses include but not limited to epidemiology analyses early and late costeffectiveness analyses public health analyses budget impact analyses and integrated field force tools
Collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to conduct evidence generation and synthesis studies that are used to inform economic models and the value evidence strategy
Adaptation and/or training of global health economic resources for regional/local HEOR teams to support local HTA submissions and market access activities
Dissemination of health economic data via presentations at national/international congresses and publications in scientific journals
Qualifications:
Education
Doctoral degree or Masters degree in (Health) Economics Biostatistics Actuarial Sciences or a related quantitatively oriented field
Required experience and skills
Expertise and handson experience in conceptualisation design development and dissemination of health economic analyses to support internal and external decisionmaking
Minimum 3 years experience in HEOR in the pharmaceutical industry consultancy or relevant organisations
Understanding of the market access environment and challenges in key markets (eg the US Canada the UK and EU4 China Japan)
Strong interpersonal organisational and communicational skills with ability to interact with individuals from a variety of disciplines
Preferred experience and skills
Strong trackrecord of innovative HTA submissions and development of health economic resources to support market access activities
Demonstrated strategic innovative thinking and decision making
Experience in cardiovascular/metabolic diseases immunology neuroscience and/or ophthalmology
Experience in evidence generation synthesis and analysis such as realworld studies literature research metaanalysis
Excellent presentation interpersonal and internal and external networking skills to work in crossfunctional teams
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Expected US salary range:
$153800.00 $242200.00Available benefits include bonus eligibility long term incentive if applicable health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family) retirement benefits paid holidays vacation and sick days. A summary of benefits is listed here.
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Biostatistics Biostatistics Business Data Analytics Business Intelligence (BI) Communication Data Management Economics Modeling Epidemiology Global Health Health Economics Health Outcomes Research Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Immunoassays Immunochemistry Immunology Innovation Literature Reviews Machine Learning Market Access Medical Economics Mentorship Microeconomics Neuroanatomy Neuroscience Neurotrophins 9 morePreferred Skills:
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