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Executive Director, Outcomes Research, Pulmonary Hypertension

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Full Remote
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Salary: 
244 - 383K yearly
Experience: 
Expert & Leadership (>10 years)
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Offer summary

Qualifications:

Doctoral Degree in relevant discipline, 10+ years pharmaceutical industry experience, Experience in Pulmonary Hypertension preferred, Experience leading and mentoring teams.

Key responsabilities:

  • Lead strategic direction for outcomes research team
  • Develop value evidence strategies for product lifecycle
  • Prepare health outcomes and economic evidence deliverables
  • Establish partnerships with internal and external stakeholders
  • Disseminate value evidence through various channels
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Job Description

This position resides within our company's Value and Implementation (V&I), Outcomes Research organization, which is responsible for real-world evidence generation and outcomes research to enable sustained patient access to our company’s innovations and improve patient health outcomes. Under the guidance of a senior leader, the Executive Director leads a team of outcomes research professionals to develop value evidence strategies and generate real world and economic evidence for our company's Pulmonary Hypertension portfolio to meet the value evidence needs of clinicians, payers, policymakers, HTA/reimbursement agencies, and health systems globally. The ability to successfully participate in and lead cross functional teams is a critical part of this role.

The Executive Director has scientific and budgetary oversight for all outcomes research activities conducted by the team. These include prospective and retrospective observational studies to characterize disease burden and epidemiology, treatment patterns, healthcare resource utilization and costs, physician and patient satisfaction surveys, clinical and patient reported outcomes assessments, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and economic modelling. Key responsibilities also include overseeing the development of American Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) dossiers for US payers, and Global Value Dossiers for use by local subsidiaries in their HTA submissions.

The Executive Director is expected to contribute to product development and marketing strategies throughout the lifecycle to ensure that product value is defined and developed to achieve optimal market/ patient access and reimbursement. The incumbent is expected to work cross-functionally with clinical development, medical affairs, biostatistics, market access, commercial and country affiliates and may have direct interactions with health technology assessment (HTA) agencies, reimbursement decision makers and national immunization technical advisory groups.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Lead, manage, and provide strategic direction to a team of outcomes research professionals.

  • Lead value evidence and outcomes research strategy development for lead pulmonary hypertension compound through a cross-functional value and implementation (V&I) team.

  • Accountable for the development and delivery of innovative, timely, robust health outcomes and economic evidence to support and optimize market access, pricing, reimbursement, HTA, formulary listing and promotion of our Company's products.

  • Develop a strong matrix relationship with clinical development, medical affairs, market access, commercial and key markets to ensure that clinical, commercial and access strategies fully reflect payer/HTA requirements.

  • Represent the perspectives and experiences of their team to shape the strategy and function of the outcomes research organization within the company through involvement in the extended leadership team and leading strategic initiatives.

  • Develop effective partnerships with internal stakeholders and external thought leaders in real world evidence, health economics, health care policy, and HTA to maintain our understanding of the external environment, inform our value evidence strategies and shape the environment for innovative applications of HEOR.

  • Maintain awareness of new scientific and methodological developments within therapeutic area and encourage appropriate application of new methods to outcomes research studies.

  • Accountable for innovative and effective dissemination of value evidence deliverables through presentations at scientific congresses, publications in peer reviewed journals, press releases, promotional materials and social media.

Education:

Doctoral Degree (PhD, DrPH, ScD, PharmD) in relevant discipline (health services research, outcomes research, epidemiology, public health, health economics, pharmacoeconomics, pharmacy administration).

Experience:

  • 10+ years post degree with pharmaceutical industry experience

  • Pulmonary Hypertension and/or rare disease experience preferred

  • Experience in leading, coaching and motivating a team of tenured professionals required

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Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, Monday - Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence.This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as “remote”.

The Company is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the salary range for this job in certain states and cities within the United States. Final determinations with respect to salary will take into account a number of factors, which may include, but not be limited to the primary work location and the chosen candidate’s relevant skills, experience, and education.

Expected US salary range:

$243,500.00 - $383,300.00

Available benefits include bonus eligibility, long term incentive if applicable, health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and sick days. A summary of benefits is listed here.

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Job Posting End Date:

11/7/2024

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Experience

Level of experience: Expert & Leadership (>10 years)
Industry :
Pharmaceuticals
Spoken language(s):
English
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Other Skills

  • Strategic Planning
  • Team Leadership
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Verbal Communication Skills

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