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August 16, 2008
Health Economics manager, UK
Location: UK
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Health Economics Manager based in the UK. The main responsibilities involves providing health economics leadership and developing and implementing health economics evidence to support sales, marketing and reimbursement in order to promote the profitable growth of the business.
Job Summary
The post-holder has accountability for providing health economics support to facilitate sales growth in one of the most important market sectors.
The post is located in the United Kingdom, but the post-holder will have responsibility to support the business worldwide. He/she will be required to work closely with reimbursement and/or sales teams in international markets in order to ensure that economic evidence is available to support sales growth worldwide.
The candidate is also part of a global team of health economics specialists. The candidate will have a dotted-line reporting relationship with the Vice President of Health Economics.
Responsibilities
Key responsibilities in the role will include:
- Develop health economics evidence for products which is relevant in key international markets, in order to support local sales teams and to promote the growth of the business.
- Work with Key Opinion Leaders to design or advice on studies intended to create new economic evidence in support of products.
- Ensure that economic evidence is accessible to sales reps and is presented in a way which is easy to understand. Ensure that sales reps are properly trained to enable them to be confident in presenting economic arguments.
- Ensure evidence is available in an appropriate form to support applications for reimbursement and/or funding for new and existing products. This accountability requires close working with reimbursement/government affairs managers and new product development teams both centrally and in key markets.
- Provide advice to new product development teams and Strategic Marketing, including estimating the potential economic value of proposed new developments and recommending a price range to ensure cost-effectiveness. This will include advice on the type of economic evidence which will be required to demonstrate economic value to customers and/or to obtain reimbursement.
- Maintain a thorough understanding of sources of funding for AWC and related products in major markets and monitor key trends which are likely to affect the business in the future – including trends in health technology assessment. Ensure information is disseminated within the business.
- Work with the Vice President of Health Economics to promote the external image of the company as an industry leader in health economics. This will include writing papers for submission to peer-reviewed journals and presenting at national or international conferences.
Expertise Required
- Postgraduate qualification in economics or health economics (Master’s level or higher).
- Experience of applied health economics in a commercial setting.
- Recent senior experience working in the healthcare market and/or the medical devices industry.
- Publications in peer-reviewed journals.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, both orally and in writing
- Ability to respond quickly and flexibly to the needs of customers and colleagues.
- Ability to think tactically and strategically
- Good analytical skills
- Ability to provide coaching and development support to a team of specialists
- Participative leadership style.
Stelfox operates on a very simple maxim: Find out what people want and give it to them. The primary focus of each Stelfox consultant is to cultivate a relationship with both client and candidate based on professionalism, speed and accuracy. The latter being the obvious competitive advantage offered by Stelfox afforded through the knowledge and experience of each individual consultant. The Stelfox team know exactly what type of individuals and skillset each of our clients repeatedly look for.
Please contact Ann-Sofie Brandt for details of this or any other opportunities on 01273-727-930 or ann-sofie@stelfoxuk.com
Associate Dir. / Director, Health Outcomes & Pharmacoeconomics
Location: Maryland, USA
The Associate Director or Director will assume day to day lead responsibility for the design and conduct of health outcomes and pharmacoeconomic analyses of marketed product(s) and participate in developing brand strategy
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develop pharmacoeconomic strategy across multi-disciplinary staff (Marketing, Managed Markets, Clinical Development, Medical Affairs, Biostatistics)
- Evaluate phase IV clinical trials and critically appraise and recommend pharmacoeconomic and patient-reported outcome (PRO) endpoints
- Conduct and manage HOPE advisory boards
- Design and conduct economic evaluations including cost-effectiveness, cost-utility, cost consequence and burden of disease studies.
- Design and conduct decision analytic models including Markov models and simulations integrating both prospective clinical trial data and retrospective survey and insurance claims data.
- Develop budget impact models to demonstrate the value of products to managed care customers.
- Present research, including dissemination at scientific meetings and publication of original research in peer reviewed journals.
- Manage outside contract research including developing and soliciting proposals, monitoring performance against milestones, and assuring completion of contract work.
- Assist with training of internal staff on pharmacoeconomic concepts and understanding of published studies on the topic.
- Represent the views of the Department in cross-functional product teams
- Engage with policy makers when appropriate.
Position Requirements Requirements/Qualifications:
Education: Clinical Pharmacist or PhD in health services research, health economics or related field with industry related experience for > 4 years. Training in economic assessment of medical interventions and products.
Darren Kruszynski
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