Executive Director, Outcomes Research, Hematology and Prostate Cancer

Job Description

This position resides within our company's Value and Implementation (V&I), Oncology 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 will be responsible for developing a value and implementation plan for the company's Hematology and Prostate malignancy portfolio in close partnership with global and scientific affairs (GMSA) and other cross-functional teams.  Specifically, the executive director will lead a team of outcomes research professionals to develop value evidence strategies and generate real world and economic evidence for the company's Hematology and Prostate Cancer 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, care pathways or other decision making and policy setting groups. 

Primary Responsibilities:

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

•    Lead value evidence and outcomes research strategy development for all therapies in Hematology and Prostate Cancer area through a cross-functional value and implementation (V&I) team.

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Lead development of value and implementation plan for all therapies in hematology and prostate cancer area in close partnership with GMSA and others cross-functional teams.

•    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, BARDS (Biostatistics and Research Decision Sciences), 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. 

Qualifications

Doctoral degree (PhD, DrPH, ScD) 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 (experience in oncology preferred).
 

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