Health Economics & Payer Evidence (HEPE) Lead

AstraZeneca • Gaithersburg, MD

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

Health Economics & Payer Evidence (HEPE) Lead
Introduction to role:
Are you ready to set the strategic payer evidence direction that turns breakthrough science into patient access? As the HEPE Lead, you will guide how our medicines earn and retain access across the world, partnering closely with clinical, medical evidence, observational research, and payer teams.
You will operate as a forward-looking strategic partner, translating insights into target product profiles and global payer evidence plans that stand up to scrutiny and shape pricing and market access strategies. Do you thrive in complexity and enjoy challenging the status quo to unlock sustainable access? Your leadership will set the pace and standard for how we design, test, and communicate value for patients, payers, and health authorities.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of global launch experience within a health economic consultancy or pharmaceutical company (either at a marketing company/local affiliate or global level).
• Bachelor’s degree in relevant areas, such as health economics or a related quantitative discipline.
• Effective communication skills to different audiences, including both scientific and commercial
• Ability to work both collaboratively and independently, understand and apply different technical approaches, and have a wide understanding of different HTA systems and their changing needs for health economic and payer evidence.
• Applying a strategic mindset by anticipating future possibilities and translating them to breakthrough strategies as well as being resilient towards setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations
• Driving the publication strategy to support payer needs, generate peer-reviewed scientific publications, as well as effective communication of sophisticated ideas for use with both payers and other partners.

Nice To Haves

• Formal post graduate degree in health economics or a related quantitative subject area, or advanced work experience in this field
• Payer, Health Technology Assessment, public health, or health policy experience
• Global market access launch experience and global payer evidence development experience
• In-depth knowledge and technical capability in health economics and payer evidence needs, and its application to pharmaceutical development at an international level, especially economic modelling, evidence synthesis, clinical trial design and analyses and other analytical techniques required to support payer needs.

Responsibilities

• Setting the strategic HEPE direction for the compounds you are working on, demonstrating the value of our products to patients, payers and health authorities.
• Collaborating with Clinical Development, Medical Evidence Generation, Observational Research, and Payer Teams in designing and implementing innovative HEPE strategies and activities for target product profiles/claims, global payer evidence plans, and market access and pricing strategies.
• Leading and influence the production of scientific evidence for robust portfolio decisions, global reimbursement dossiers and reimbursement submissions to achieve market access.
• Proactively predict and resolve issues that affect market access decisions and take responsibility for detailed strategic and tactical planning and implementation of payer evidence plans.
• Generating novel approaches and challenging the status quo at the highest levels both internally and externally, you will deliver the strongest evidence package supporting patient access.
• Preparing proposals for outsourced projects and collaborating with local market affiliates to prepare evidence that satisfies payer needs in their markets.
• Representing health economics and payer evidence in cross-functional project teams to ensure that worldwide payer needs are reflected in our drug development programs.
• Empowering other functions to support the delivery of payer strategy, anticipating and removing obstacles to their delivery and providing them with expertise, support, challenge and resource as appropriate.

Benefits

• short-term incentive bonus opportunity
• eligibility to participate in our equity-based long-term incentive program
• qualified retirement program [401(k) plan]
• paid vacation and holidays
• paid leaves
• health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level