Boston, MA, US.

This position will provide exposure to HEOR principles, concepts, practices, and standards in medical device industry practices. Individual develops solutions based on established precedents and policies to achieve the overall objectives and long-range goals of the HEOR team.

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

• Design and analyze studies using administrative health care claims data, hospital data and device-derived data to understand clinical characteristics and outcomes, health services utilization, treatment patterns and costs associated with the use of surgical products, services or patients indicated for such therapies. Analysis may be used to support evidence development, federal agency (FDA, CMS) requests, clinical trial design, and reimbursement market trends.
• Assist the development and dissemination of evidence in the form of reports, abstracts and manuscripts based on the analyses described above.
• Modify, or implement economic models using inputs from clinical and observational data research, literature review, and clinical or stakeholder expertise.
• Collaborate with clinical researchers to add relevant health outcomes and economic endpoints to clinical trials, analyze and report study results.
• Execute and generate visualization dashboards (Tableau or PowerBI).
• Develop SAS macros and prepare documents.
• Support HEOR operating and tactical work
• Designs and implements observational and economic research studies that provide value, perspective and evidence for clinical and/or pre-clinical product portfolio decisions, marketing, regulatory agency submissions, and product reimbursement strategies.
• Compares and evaluates the value of products and therapies with the clinical, economic, and quality of life outcomes data from clinical trials and/or epidemiology studies, registries, observational studies, modeling, surveys and meta-analysis.
• Develops country specific evidence to meet requirements for optimal reimbursement coverage and usage.
• Works closely with market access to help develop strategies and pricing programs, and standardize best practices.
• Works with clinical research to add relevant health outcomes and economic endpoints to clinical trials and biostatisticians to analyze and report study results.
• Additional tasks as assigned

Required Knowledge and Experience: 

• Bachelor’s Degree with 2 years of experience in HEOR, health informatics or analytics

OR

• An advanced degree with 0 years of experience

Nice to Have

• HEOR experience with Medtronic
• Experience with administrative healthcare data analysis or electronic health record data analysis.
• Strong analytic skills; experience with statistical methods for handling large observational database.
• Strong experience with statistical programming (SQL/SAS).
• Experience with data wrangling process.
• Experience with data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI).
• Experience/interest in medical device industry.
• Experience/interest in health insurance or health care delivery industry.
• Experience/interest in health policy.
• Experience/interest in real-world surgical procedures.
• Experience with economic modeling.
• Excellent oral, written, presentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a highly matrixed organizations.
• Relationship-building and maintaining skills with internal and external stakeholders, including physician customers, hospital administrators, or payers.
• Broad perspective and understanding of business issues related to medical devices and/or pharmaceuticals.
• High productivity level as evidenced by ability to effectively prioritize tasks.

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.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

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.
Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$73,600.00 – $110,400.00

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

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

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

At the general direction of a senior member of the Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) team, this position is responsible for providing health economic and health services research analytical expertise to support the development of evidence for Surgical Operating Unit.

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

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