Executive Director, HEOR & Value

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The Executive Director, HEOR and Value is the Medical Affairs leader accountable for establishing and advancing Pacira’s integrated HEOR and Value evidence strategy that enables differentiated access, reimbursement, adoption, and commercial success across marketed products and pipeline assets. The position defines evidence priorities, directs strategic investment in HEOR research and data capabilities, and ensures scientific rigor in methodology and external communications as well as relevance to healthcare decision makers.

As a senior Medical Affairs leader, this individual partners closely with Medical Affairs, Market Access, Government Affairs, Commercial, Clinical Development, and Business Development to align value evidence plans with payer and health-system needs, related clinical development priorities, and product lifecycle strategy. This role leads a team of HEOR professionals and provides strategic oversight of external research partners and vendors managing large healthcare clinical and administrative databases.

• Lead the development of the HEOR strategy and integrated evidence roadmap across marketed products and pipeline assets, aligned with enterprise scientific priorities and product lifecycle needs.
• Lead scientific strategy and execution across economic and real-world evidence, cost-effectiveness and budget impact models, patient-reported outcomes, disease-burden and patient journey studies, and claims analyses, ensuring rigor and decision relevance.
• Build strong cross-functional partnerships with Medical Affairs, Market Access, Government Affairs, and Clinical Development to align scientific evidence priorities, payer and health-system evidence needs, and clinical research strategy.
• Provide strategic guidance on integrating relevant HEOR/RWE endpoints, comparative effectiveness questions, and healthcare decision-maker evidence requirements into Phase II/III, Phase IV, and postmarketing evidence plans in collaboration with Clinical Development and Market Access.
• Build strong professional relationships with key stakeholders in health economic research, population health decision makers, HEOR professional associations, relevant policy experts to advance Pacira’s mission.
• Provide strategic scientific input into pipeline value positioning, lifecycle management, formulary evidence needs, and potential value-based care approaches, in collaboration with Market Access without assuming responsibility for pricing or contracting.
• Lead governance of HEOR and value components of integrated evidence plans, including prioritization of research investments and plans, oversight of budgets, and strategic direction of external partnerships and data resources.
• In collaboration with Scientific Communications, lead scientific dissemination priorities for peer-reviewed publications, and scientific congresses.
• In collaboration with Field Medical and Market Access, conducts value…