Principal Reimbursement Analyst

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

An exciting brand new role for an experienced Principal Reimbursement Analyst based in Australia or elsewhere in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. This is an incredible opportunity to be a valued partner to Medtronic’s Coronary and Renal Denervation (CRDN) business for the APAC region, expanding patient access to these technologies, developing clinical and economic evidence, health economic evaluations, value propositions and customer facing economic tools. In this role, the successful candidate will enjoy cross functional collaboration with global and regional reimbursement, marketing, clinical, government affairs, pricing and other functions across the organization.

The purpose of the role is to ensure patients in the APAC region have timely and equitable access to Medtronic Coronary and Renal Denervation (CRDN) technologies by shaping healthcare policy, securing reimbursement, and demonstrating the value of these products, working in partnership with our key stakeholders across functions and regions. Our Health Economics, Policy and Reimbursement (HEPR) team leverages deep expertise in health economics, health policy, and evidence strategy.

The successful candidate for the Principal Reimbursement Analyst role will be an individual offering strategic solutions on how to make Medtronic’s innovative products available for our patients in the market. Agility, a can do attitude and high level of collaboration is critical to one’s success in this role.

This is an individual contributor role. In this role you will report into the Senior Director – Health Economics Policy and Reimbursement. We are flexible for this role to be remote and based anywhere within Australia, Singapore or elsewhere in APAC

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Deliver relevant evidence and tools to meet HTA (Health Technology Assessment), reimbursement, and funding needs to expand market access of Medtronic’s coronary and renal denervation technologies for the APAC region.
• Use your specialist knowledge of the specific market access environments in your region as well as health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) methodologies to build the right strategies to gain and maintain reimbursement and funding for Medtronic’s CRDN technologies.
• Build internal cross-functional as well as external partnerships with health policy and health economic experts and KOLs, to optimize market access strategies.
• Execute on the defined market access strategies to optimize Health Technology Assessments (HTA), Reimbursement applications, Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG) funding mechanisms, , Hospital- or Payer-level business cases and innovative funding schemes.
• Provide input to evidence development plans, including input to clinical study design, and measurement of healthcare utilization and patient-reported outcomes / quality of life
• Execute health economic projects including cost-effectiveness, cost-utility, cost-of-illness analyses and budget impact analyses to support market access strategies
• Develop product value stories and deliver regional value dossiers for effective and timely use in APAC countries
• Analyze and communicate clinical & economic evidence to target audiences within the region, including publication of research findings
• Be an internal expert on regional reimbursement of coronary & RDN products and identify risks and opportunities for business planning processes
• Provide therapy-specific and general reimbursement/Health economics education and training to key internal and external audiences within the region
  
  
  

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 7 years relevant experience or a postgraduate qualification with minimum of 5 years relevant experience.
• Experience in health economics, outcomes research or medical device technology assessment with a track record of successful reimbursement and funding applications in the health care environment
• Good knowledge of the application, development and review of health economic models
• Experience in conducting outcomes research projects and developing value propositions
• Good knowledge of reimbursement systems in the APAC region
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, an ability to work across cultures, strong project management skills and results driven mindset
  
  
  

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package

A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

About Medtronic

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