Associate Principal Scientist, Health Economic and Decision Sciences

Role:

Under the direction of an HEDS Senior Director, the Associate Principal Scientist provides strategic development and use of predictive and economic models to enhance understanding of disease and quantify/communicate the value of oncology products to patients, providers, and payers.

• - Serve as the BARDS-HEDS lead for one or more Value and Implementation teams to develop health economic, disease, and predictive models for product business insights.
• - Use discovery, real-world evidence, clinical trial and published data, and public tools to build economic and integrated models to answer key questions across drug/vaccine development (Phase I through loss of data exclusivity).
• - Advance integrated quantitative approaches using economic, disease, predictive modeling and simulation with internal and external partners.
• - Develop and maintain global health economic models and tools in-house or with external vendors to demonstrate product value.
• - Support and train HEDS models/tools for country/regional adaptations and external stakeholder communications.
• - Disseminate health economic data via congress presentations and scientific journal publications.
• - Collaborate with external collaborators (clinical/economic thought leaders, payer/HTA experts, alliance partners) and internal cross-functional teams to apply new methodologies/models/analytics.
• - Stay current on external data, modeling methodologies, and IT tools to enhance capabilities in health economic modeling, simulation, and data visualization.
• - Share work products and best practices across the enterprise.

• - PhD (preferred) or Master’s degree in Health Economics, Biostatistics, Health Services Research, Actuarial Sciences, Operations Research, or related quantitative field.

• - HEOR experience beyond degree.
• - Knowledge/experience in economic evaluation of oncology drugs and interventions.
• - Hands-on experience conceiving/designing/developing/disseminating health economic model approaches.
• - Track record of HTA submissions and peer-reviewed/conference publications.
• - Strong interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills.
• - Understanding of market access environment in US and key international markets.

• - Data Management, Economic Modeling, Health Economics, Health Economics Evaluation, Health Technology Assessment (HTA), Oncology, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Strategic Planning.