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June 11, 2007
Outcomes Research Analyst (Job Reference OSD82): AstraZeneca
Location: Luton, England, UK
As one of the world’s leading healthcare companies, innovation and discovery are part of everything we do. We turn good ideas into medicines, which can make a real difference to the quality of peoples’ lives. But it’ s not just other people who will benefit from your creativity and inspiration. From excellent development opportunities to flexible benefits, we’ll reward your ideas, and support your aspirations. Welcome to a career with AstraZeneca.
Due to the success and growth of the team this is a newly created role to develop and communicate value messages to maximise the business opportunities of AstraZeneca Brands to our NHS customers.
You will
Develop and deliver outcomes research (80%)
With support from the Senior Outcomes Research Analyst/Outcomes Research Manager:
- Assist in systematic reviews of the literature (e.g. run literature searches, review inclusion/exclusion of papers, co-review and extract data for analysis, etc.)
- Provide support materials for use in submissions to market access organisations and by sales teams with cost-sensitive NHS customers
- Provide input to clinical trial design and analysis of results
- Utilise data from a range of sources (e.g. clinical audit, clinical trials, health economic analyses, etc.) to generate value messages
Develop and support the use of value messages by sales teams (10%)
- Provide training in use of value messages, and develop support materials for NHS sales team
- Support NHS sales teams in their dealings with key customer accounts, presenting information to customers when required
Clearly communicate value messages to customers in a format which influences decision-making (10%)
- Maintain knowledge of NHS organisation and decision making, to identify opportunities for our Brands
- Understand what constitutes value to our NHS customers and develop value messages in formats which are understandable, and which aid decision-making
- Assist with preparation of the clinical effectiveness sections of submissions to national market access organisations (NICE, SMC, etc.)
Ideally you will have a first degree in life sciences and be willing to embark on a postgraduate qualification in Evidence-Based Health Care or Health Technology Assessment
We offer competitive salary and benefits. We aim to be an innovative leader in all we do and the development of our competitive and flexible reward programme is no exception. As well as offering you choice and flexibility, we also believe in recognising your contribution, with a shares and cash bonus plan, which blends overall company performance, with team and individual success.
To apply please search under job reference OSD 82 at http://careers.astrazeneca.co.uk/
