Bangkok, Thailand.
Delivery of company objectives:
- Identification, analysis, and communication of economic barriers and gaps to access.
- Determining outcomes research requirements and developing local data generation strategies in collaboration with a respective TA market access manager.
- Preparing health technology assessment and dossiers for National listing of essential medicines (NLEM) and tendering submissions.
- Analysing business environment, payer perceptions, and competitor pricing strategies.
- Searching literature and critically reviewing, extracting and summarising relevant evidence.
- Writing reports and presentations as part of the market access team.
- Supporting the wider external affairs team to engage in evidence-based conversations with key stakeholders as appropriate.
- Developing strategy and design, in collaboration with medical affairs, of local data generation studies.
- Real world local data generation (LDG) projects:.
- Designing LDG projects in alignment with CORE.
- Overseeing the data procurement, data analysis, and reporting.
- Overseeing the publication of findings and dissemination of finding to commercial teams.
- Present at conferences on the topic of health economics and LDG findings to strengthen value and affordability cases to key leaders in the industry.
- Develop good relationships with KOLs based on a shared interest in research and scientific methodologies.
- Provide strategic input into market access and commercial plans
- The building of models to explore different scenarios in order to inform strategic decisions. E.g. alternative reimbursement models, business case models for new product launches, pricing strategies, etc.
- Assist with the analysis of current data and trends, partnering with the relevant market access managers in guiding the commercial teams on strategic decisions.
Leadership and strategic counsel
- Maintaining up-to-date internal knowledge of pricing, listing and tendering systems, including submissions of PARFs for senior leadership and Global approval
Candidate specification: key selection criteria
Education
- Background in science, business or economics – ie postgraduate qualification in a health-related field (e.g. policy, economics, biostatistics, epidemiology)
Experience
- Up to 3 years’ experience of health economics, outcomes research, and listing issues in the healthcare sector, academic setting, pharmaceutical industry or consulting
- Experience of developing value dossiers, submissions to payors or reimbursement bodies
- English language skills
- Relevant experience in a priority therapeutic area
Critical competencies for success
- Problem-solving skills: proven ability to analyze and address market access barriers
- Business acumen: ability to apply commercial management principles to achieve business outcomes
- Communication: ability to communicate findings in clear, compelling materials
- Knowledge of pharmaco-economics, health technology assessment, outcomes research: maintenance of up-to-date knowledge of health economics and the requirements of pricing, listing and tendering systems
- Teamwork: ability to work with others in the market access team to help them understand their needs and achieve their goals
Other personal characteristics
- Other desirable personal characteristics include being:
- Highly committed
- Able to engage a complex set of issues
- Attentive to detail
- Of impeccable integrity
- Calm under pressure
- Tenacity and resilience
- Digital savvy
- Superior communication skills on technical subjects.
- Ability to embrace a mindset of Networking, Empowering, Experimenting, Sharing & Learning, whilst maintaining focus on Purpose, High Integrity & Ethics, Patient-Focus and Diversity & Inclusiveness.
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Employee Status:
Regular
Relocation:
Domestic
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Job Posting End Date:
11/29/2024
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Requisition ID:R307892
This job ad will be unpublished on 29/11/2024.
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