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July 1, 2008
European Health Outcomes Associate Director
Location: Belgium
Leading Global organisation
Excellent salary & package
Exclusive with Skills Alliance
My client, a leading global organisation, is recruiting for an Associate Director of Health Outcomes. The overall objective is to develop & drive the Health Economic and Reimbursement strategy for Europe and for Key European subsidiaries to:
- Support pricing and reimbursement strategies for new and developing technologies and services
- Ensure evaluations of pharmaco-economic and outcomes research required to support these strategies
- Working with Govt Affairs and the business influence Governments, Key Opinion Leaders and Patient Associations through the macro-economics advantages of products and services
- Influencing to produce EU required data to support the reimbursement of new and developing technologies and services.
Essential duties and responsibilities:
- Collaborate with functional and Country leadership teams to develop effective economic and reimbursement information and deliver such to key constituents including public policy makers, healthcare executives and physicians.
- Work cross functionally to prospectively prepare EU reimbursement and pricing dossiers that will be used as basis for country dossiers.
- Practical business application of health economics: data evaluation, synthesis and analysis of market information to create favourable evidence of priority products, therapies and services.
- Effectively manage projects, outsourced to external consultancy(s)
- Work with the sales and marketing organizations to develop training programs for incorporating economic messages into product detailing in support of the achievement of sales goals and objectives.
- Liaise with academic groups and key opinion leaders to ensure most robust and up to date methodology are included within projects
Travel requirement is approximately 30%
Ideal Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate has matured a credible technical know-how in Health Economics and European Reimbursement systems. They are currently working within the Health Economics/Reimbursement Department either of a major Pharma/Healthcare/Med Device company (Corporate or Regional Headquarters).
Essential:
- English to business standard – written and spoken
- Understanding of Reimbursement systems in key European Markets
- Ability to think strategically around business needs from a health economic, reimbursement and pricing perspective.
- Experience in the practice, design and implementation of health economic studies including:
- modelling - including Markov and Monte Carlo simulations;
- retrospective and prospective health economic studies;
- economic evaluations including cost-effectiveness analyses, cost-utility, cost-consequence and cost of illness;
- application of quality-of-life research in clinical development and health economic studies
- understanding of global development processes and how to ensure European regional needs input into this process
- Effective written and oral communication skills
- Ability to negotiate and influence senior level Country leadership teams
- The ability to make effective independent decisions within a matrix environment under minimal supervision
- Proficiency with Internet and multiple software applications including Microsoft Office, statistical and decision analysis software
Desirable: Fluency in a language in addition to English is a plus.
Required Education and/or Experience:
Essential:
- Degree in economics or life sciences / medicine
- A minimum of five years experience in a pharmaceutical/medical device environment in the field of health economic practice, research or strategic consulting
- Demonstrable record of collaborative working, and personal delivery to agreed timelines
Desirable:
- Postgraduate qualification in health economics (essential if first degree is not in economics)
- Experience of managing external suppliers
Most relevant will be his/her personal characteristics:
- high level of energy, enthusiasm, sense of urgency
- excellent communication and negotiating skills
- positive and proactive attitude and team spirit
- willingness to “roll up the sleeves”, flexibility and adaptability
- strong international sensitivity
To apply please send your CV to minesh.ghelanil@skillsalliance.co.uk
For any other opportunities within HEOR, Pricing and Market Access or for a confidential conversation please contact:
Minesh Ghelani
Managing Consultant
HEOR, Pricing and Market Access
T> +44 (0) 870 350 1000
F> +44 (0) 870 831 1705
E> minesh.ghelani@skillsalliance.co.uk
Consultants, Advocacy Project for Sustainable Immunization Financing: The Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute
The Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization established in 1993 and headquartered in Washington, DC. The mission of SVI is to actively reduce human suffering from infectious and neglected tropical diseases by providing greater access to vaccines and essential medicines through a program of vaccine research, development and advocacy.
SVI is currently recruiting five Consultants for our Advocacy Project for Sustainable Immunization Financing. The Project will engage several African and Asian countries, each for a five-year period. Its aim is to enlarge the fiscal space at country level by strengthening alliances between Ministries of Health and Finance and Parliaments. The Project will provide these groups with the information they need to better understand the benefits of improved health and the contribution that immunization can make in this regard.
Each Consultant will be responsible for a three-country cluster. Preferably s/he will be a citizen of an African or Asian country. We welcome candidates from: Senegal, Mali, Cameroon; Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria; D.R. Congo, Rwanda, Mozambique; Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda; Sri Lanka, Nepal, Cambodia.
The Consultant will maintain working relations with senior policymakers, elected officials and representatives from the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank and other immunization donors. S/he will also work directly with civil society organizations, the private business sector and media counterparts to increase immunization program stakeholdership in each country. The successful Consultant will act as SVI’s agent to these principals, identifying resource needs, fostering teamwork and developing creative approaches to immunization finance. S/he will help build managerial capacity among counterparts in ministries of health, finance and planning. The Consultant will report frequently to SVI, both informally and formally. (A detailed job description is provided below).
The ideal Consultant will be a seasoned development professional with extensive field experience in Africa and/or Asia. S/he will be intimately familiar with public finance and public expenditure management and will possess the initiative and diplomatic skills necessary to instrument collective action by an array of national and international immunization actors. S/he will be detail-oriented, possess strong oral/written communication skills and be comfortable using a web-based management information system.
Qualified applicants are asked to submit a resume with a cover letter, including salary requirements to Christina Morgan (Christina.Morgan@sabin.org).
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
SVI Advocacy Project Consultant: Job Description
- Consultant will work with their national counterparts to analyze the current immunization system and organize collective action efforts in each assigned project country. This will entail regularly:
- Reviewing basic immunization system documents, particularly its financing component;
- Contacting and interacting with senior government officials (ministries of finance, health and legislators) to assess government immunization planning, levels and trends of fiscal support and health legislation affecting immunization;
- Contacting representatives of the national Interagency Coordinating Committee for immunization (WHO, UNICEF, World Bank, other partners) to discuss details of the financial sustainability of the national Comprehensive Multi-Year Plan (cMYP);
- Working through the ICC to identify and invite key individuals from immunization stakeholder agencies to become Advocacy Project collective actors;
- Orienting and educating new collective actors on immunization issues;
- Identifying proposed short-term activities each ICC member can undertake to meet cMYP fiscal benchmarks;
- Preparing the first Advocacy Project Brief for that country, which will include an outline of the agreed-upon short-term activities, and submitting it to SVI.
- During quarterly visits to each project country, Consultant will assess how well the Advocacy Project collective actors are carrying out their advocacy activities. This will entail individual consultations with the ICC members and external collective actors. Consultant will also attend ICC meetings. In consultation with the ICC members, Consultant will update the Advocacy Project Briefs each quarter based on the new information
- Each year, Consultant will prepare an annual report summarizing project activities. The report will identify actors who contributed to the Advocacy Project work and to overall immunization system fiscal sustainability. Consultant will then work with the ICC to identify a second set of short-term activities and prepare a revised workplan for the subsequent year (up to project year 5)
- Consultant will identify key ministry of finance, ministry of health and legislative branch officials whose particular skills and experience may be relevant to peers in other Advocacy Project countries. Consultant will propose exchanges of these Advocacy Project Advisors, demonstrating how each proposed Advisor meets a particular need in the receiving Advocacy Project country.
- Consultant will distribute feedback reports and other materials from SVI to the collective actors in each project country. 6. Consultant will contact newspapers, television and radio stations in project countries to ensure that contributors to the national immunization systems are publicly recognized.7. Consultant will represent the Advocacy Project in regional and global meetings as assigned by SVI.
- Consultant will work with the Project Manager and SVI Director of International Programs to prepare individual quarterly and annual workplans. Consultant will also help prepare the annual SVI Advocacy Project work plan.
- Consultant will perform other duties as assigned by the Project Manager and SVI Director of International Programs.
Therapeutic Area Manager
Location: Australia
Health Economics Associates and Project Managers
Pharmaceutical industry leader requires Health Economics professionals. Their top class Research and Development makes an excellent base of information ready for the Health Economics and Reimbursement teams.
The main focus of your role will be to prepare reimbursement submissions. You will primarily work on PBAC submissions with preparation of Australian Repatriation Benefits Schedule and PHARMAC submissions, Hospital Formularies, and feasibility analysis also being part of your role.??
You will have a strong Pharmacology background, and ideally experience in the preparation of reimbursement submissions, either within Australia or in a comparable international setting. Post graduate qualifications or experience in medicine, pharmacy or life science with a major in health economics, epidemiology or biostatistics would be highly desirable.
You will receive the recognition and reward associated with being a part of one of the world’s leading healthcare companies. A great stable team culture and one of the best learning environments in industry. Excellent career opportunities, the company and team managers are keen to recruit career focused individuals who are interested in planning out their career pathways within the industry. To be at the cutting edge of Health Economics, with involvement in the whole process, this is the role for you!
To apply for these roles, please email your CV to Donna Ellis at Pharmaceutical Professionals, dellis@ppjobs.com or telephone 02 8877 8728.