Roles and responsibilities
- Plays a crucial role in developing models that help assess the economic value of healthcare interventions.
- Responsible for developing, adapting, and analyzing health economic models, such as but not limited to cost-effectiveness models, budget impact models, and other decision-analytic models, to support health outcomes research and healthcare decision-making
- Work closely with internal cross functional team and external vendors and stakeholders including researchers, clinicians, payers, and regulatory agencies to ensure high quality of deliverables.
- Develop and adapt health economic models, including cost-effectiveness models (e.g., Markov, cohort, microsimulation) and budget impact models.
- Generate global-impact payer-relevant evidence, PRO, and evidence synthesis.
- Ensure delivery of global materials to support HTA submissions including the Global Value Dossier (GVD) and economic models (BIAs, COIs, CUAs, CEAs).
- Translate strategic objectives into concrete execution via HEOR project plan.
- Perform statistical and econometric analyses using clinical trial data, RWD, and claims databases to inform model inputs and assumptions.
- Conduct systematic literature reviews to identify data sources for model parameters, including costs, utilities, and clinical outcomes.
- Present model results and insights to internal and external stakeholders, explaining the implications of the results in an understandable manner.
- Conduct quality checks to ensure data accuracy in the economic model.
- Collate the reviewer's comments, revise the economic model as required based on internal/external input, and prepare the final version of the model along with the report.
- Exhibit flexibility in moving across development and preparation of multiple document types.
- Distinguish between critical and irrelevant pieces of scientific information during scoping and execution of projects.
- Gather relevant information from a variety of sources and generate insights with supervision.
- Soundly analyze qualitative data and interpret quantitative data.
- Ensure the robustness of models by conducting validation exercises, sensitivity analyses, and scenario analyses to test the credibility of results.
- Prepare detailed reports, manuscripts, posters, and presentations summarizing the model structure, methods, and findings for use in HTAs or publications.
- Excelling the programming and software tools (e.g., Excel, R, SAS, Python, VBA).
- Ensure all models are developed in line with best practices and guidelines from organizations like ISPOR, NICE, and other relevant bodies and best practices and guidelines.
Desired candidate profile
Qualifications
- University degree in Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Public Health, Health Economics, Medical, or Life Sciences fields.
- Master’s degree in health economics is an advantage.
- Formal Project Management training and/or certification is preferred.
- A minimum of 2 years of experience in the field of Health Economics with a good understanding of different HEOR modelling tools, such as (COI, BIA, CUA, CEAs) to drive value communication.
- Previous experience in management consulting & HEOR Offerings that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to at least 4 years).
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Understanding of TLS, SLR, and modeling regulations.
- Understand the MEA Region market in terms of regulation, pricing, market access, etc.
- Good knowledge consulting & HEOR Offerings.
- Proficiency in medical and HEOR terminology knowledge.
- Excellent command of written and spoken English, any other language is an advantage.
- Ability to communicate information and ideas with clarity; with the ability to listen and to understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and to excel under pressure.
- Good scheduling, time management, multitasking skills, and self-manage to provide support to multiple project owners simultaneously.