Global Health Economics Lead

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**Global Health Economics (GHE) Lead** (all genders)** at the Associate Director level in our Zurich, Switzerland office.**

**How you will contribute**:

- Provides health economic expertise and leadership to support the development of global market access strategies:

- Ensures that early economic models are designed and implemented to inform global market access strategy, including testing pricing hypotheses, prioritizing evidence generation, and planning for HTA in key markets
- Oversees the development of core/global economic models to meet local market access and HTA needs, including risk-sharing strategy
- Contributes to the development of global value propositions
- Integrates GHE strategies and tactics across products and related devices
- Informs early scientific advice strategies
- Works collaboratively with different groups within to organization ensuring alignment on health economics plans and activities. GHE Lead regularly interacts with regional and local affiliates and global functions, including but not limited to Market Access Strategy, Access Innovation, Outcomes Research & Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Global Medical Affairs, Patient Advocacy, etc.
- Supports local market access pricing and reimbursement:

- Supports projects in collaboration with other functions as appropriate to localize, adapt, and develop health economic models and tools to support local pricing and reimbursement in alignment with global product and franchise strategies
- Leads the development of health economic strategy and components of HTA and the pricing & reimbursement dossiers
- Understands regional health technology assessment (HTA) requirements and supports product teams with early HTA advice strategy
- Identifies data gaps and communicates evidence generation needs to R&D

organization
- Continuously applies learnings from countries to refine HE strategy and tools and improve the value proposition of Takeda product
- Contributes to target product profiles and clinical development plans by

understanding and communicating relevant health economic and related outcomes measures needed to achieve market access
- Performs all Takeda business in accordance with appropriate regulations and corporate policies and procedures
- Other duties as assigned

**Minimum Requirements/Qualifications**:

- Bachelors degree in Economics, Health or Social Sciences or related technical field
- Postgraduate qualification in Economics or related field
- 5+ years of experience in health economics and/or outcomes research ideally in the pharmaceutical industry and or consulting/academia
- Language requirement: English
- Has experience developing economic models for HTAs
- Has a strong understanding of international HTA, pricing and reimbursement systems as applied to drug products and devices
- Effectively produces and communicates data that support the economic value of a product or therapy
- Performs analyses using cost-effectiveness and budget impact models
- Communicates with great conviction and clarity at the appropriate levels
- Understands risk-sharing and managed entry agreements
- Effectively collaborates with various internal stakeholders to achieve mutual objectives
- Effectively facilitates discussions to establish agreement and closes discussions with clear summaries
- Executes strategic GHE plan for franchise within stated timelines
- Successfully translates key issues into actions and communicates them clearly to colleagues

**Empowering our people to shine**

**Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion**

**Locations**:
Zurich, Switzerland

**Worker Type**:
Employee

**Worker Sub-Type**:
Regular

**Time Type**:
Full time