Senior Specialist Value Demonstration

Job Description

The purpose of our External Affairs & Market Access Team is to ensure broad and equal access to our innovative medicines and vaccines. This is achieved at individual medical accounts (Key Account Management), by ensuring reimbursement for our drugs and vaccines (Market Access) and on the long-term by addressing legislative and regulatory issues (Policy) that promote and protect the discovery of innovative medicine. For all that we take great care to monitor and manage the reputation of our company communicating the work we do to improve lives (Communications). The Value Demonstration and Affordability team plays a crucial part in understanding the value and impact of our innovations on public health, health costs and health benefits. Among our stakeholders are the national reimbursement agency, as well as policymakers and research institutes.

On this background, we are currently seeking a Senior Specialist Value Demonstration and Affordability (Sr. Spclst VD&A) who will be responsible for:

• Identify available data sources.

• Adapt health economic models in our key therapeutic areas (prevention, oncology, others).

• Lead or support local data generation projects in collaboration with third parties.

• Lead or support stakeholder specific generation of narratives around value.

• Manage data requests from cross-functional teams.

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated individual to join our team as a Health Economist Specialist, who brings a sound understanding of the pharmaceutical industry and is passionate about cross-functional teamwork.

The primary activities include but are not limited to:

Perform

• Adapt cost-effectiveness and budget impact models specific to company's therapeutic areas to assess the value of healthcare interventions in terms of their costs and outcomes.

• Identify available data sources (literature, international and national real-life data, local registries) that support the clinical benefits of the company’s innovations.

• Define data gaps to support the economic value of our innovations.

• Generate evidence to support the value proposition of interventions and treatments, demonstrating their clinical and economic benefits compared to alternative options.

• Act as a specialist on Health Technology Assessments.

• Use economic analysis to inform Market Access and Policy teams and to develop stakeholder specific communication.

• Conduct desktop research and data analysis to collect and interpret health economics data specific to company's areas of interest.

Transform

• Contribute to a more value than cost-based discussion in health care through active external communication.

Collaborate

• Build and maintain relationships with 3rd parties involved in value demonstration and health economic modelling.

• Serve as an advisor to franchise cross-functional teams on real world evidence and health economy.

Educational Qualifications

• A master's or doctoral degree in health economics, public health, epidemiology, pharmacy or a related field

• Languages: Fluent in English (oral and written) / Efficiency in other European languages is a plus (German preferable)

Required Experience and Skills

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in health system related organization, preferable in pharma.

• Proven experience in areas of health economics, outcomes research, or a similar role. Familiarity with health technology assessment, healthcare financing or market access.

• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to perform complex economic analyses and interpret health data. Proficiency in statistical software and data visualization tools is preferred.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills to effectively convey complex economic concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Strong research skills to stay up-to-date with emerging trends, literature, and best practices in health economics and health policy. Adaptability to evolving healthcare landscapes in these areas.

• Team-worker within the market access and external affairs team, and also able to work cross-functionally on a local and international level.

Our Human Health Division maintains a “patient first, profits later” ideology. The organization is comprised of sales, marketing, market access, digital analytics and commercial professionals who are passionate about their role in bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide.

The Company

Our company has had a presence in Switzerland since 1963. With a regional office and manufacturing/packaging facility, Lucerne is considered the center of operations. Approximately 1,000 people work collaboratively at the four Lucerne locations (Tribschenstrasse, Citybay, Schachen and Kriens). A fifth location has been established in Zurich, aimed at accelerating the development and commercialization of many of our company’s medicines and vaccines, which supports our mission to save and improve lives around the world.

We are proud to be certified as a “Top Employer Switzerland” and “Top Employer Europe” showing the company’s commitment to our employees and the community around us.

CITYBAY, LUCERNE

The Switzerland Head Office of our company’s Swiss Subsidiary is based in Lucerne's city center. Located in the heart of the city, employees work collaboratively across many departments including commercial, market access, medical affairs, clinical research, regulatory affairs, and policy & communications.

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Job Posting End Date:07/16/2024

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Requisition ID:R299635