HEVA (HEOR) Business Partner

Sanofi•Morristown, MA

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

Join the team transforming care for people with immune challenges, rare diseases, cancers, and neurological conditions. In Specialty Care, you’ll help deliver breakthrough treatments that bring hope to patients with some of the highest unmet needs. Sanofi Specialty Care has pioneered the development and delivery of transformative therapies for patients affected by debilitating diseases for over 30 years. We accomplish our goals through world-class research, collaboration with the global patient community, and with the compassion and commitment of our employees. Sanofi Specialty Care’s portfolio of transformative therapies, which are marketed in countries around the world, represent ground-breaking and life-saving advances in medicine. Sanofi Specialty Care employees benefit from the reach and resources of one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies with a shared commitment to improving the lives of patients. Sanofi’s Rare franchise has a diverse and fast-growing portfolio. This includes late-stage launching candidates as well as several promising compounds in the pipeline. HEOR/HEVA’s mission is to conduct, communicate, and translate evidence to demonstrate the value of Sanofi’s products and support optimal access and treatment outcomes for patients. The Rare HEOR/HEVA team is responsible for designing and fulfilling evidence generation plans that meet the strategic goals of Rare Diseases portfolio. This strategic role supports the development and implementation of evidence-based value strategies for a key product within Sanofi's Hemophilia portfolio. The position bridges scientific research with business objectives by collaborating across global teams to enhance the product's value proposition. The ideal candidate will contribute to innovative research programs that generate compelling evidence supporting market access and commercial success throughout the product lifecycle. This role is essential for translating outcomes research into meaningful value demonstrations for both internal decision-makers and external stakeholders.

Requirements

Advanced degree (PhD, MD, MS, MPH, or PharmD) in a scientific discipline
7+ years of combined experience in health economics, outcomes research, or a related field
U.S. product launch experience, understand U.S. payer evidence requirements and value demonstration in a competitive market
Demonstrated experience in applying various HEOR methods to specific research projects and have supported global launches.
Proficiency in principles of evidence-based medicine and clinical research methodology, economic modeling, and COAs.
Understands, creates, and applies relevant methods (e.g., observational data, post hoc analysis of clinical trials, meta-analysis, indirect comparison, etc..) to demonstrate product value potential
Provides recommendations to clinical development programs aimed at ensuring differentiation for payer value demonstration
Experience in translating Target Value Propositions and access strategies into evidence hypotheses, requirements and generation plans addressing payer/provider/health system unmet needs
Established track record of scientific and/or methods publications in peer-reviewed journals
Knowledge of global HTA processes and guidelines, experience with HTA submissions preferred
Strong ability to partner with colleagues from other (i.e. non-HEOR) functional areas
Develops and maintains peer relationships to establish HEOR/HEVA as an expert in HEOR
Anticipates communication needs to cross-functional audiences and pre-empts issues with timely and effective action
Compliance with all relevant internal SOPs and external laws and regulations
Timely design and execution experience of HEOR/HEVA plans
Demonstrated contributions to product success
Development and execution of strategies that address data gaps and customer needs
English fluent, both written and oral
Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, including presentation skills.
Significant experience making presentations to senior management is strongly desired
Understanding of the legal and regulatory environment of the pharmaceutical industry, demonstrated integrity on work-related compliance considerations and solid ethics
Entrepreneurial and team spirit and ability to develop creative solutions to complex problems
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Nice To Haves

Demonstrated understanding disease physiopathology, drug mechanism of action, Health Economic modeling, clinical development principles, epidemiology, biostatistics, statistical programming
COA development, systemic literature reviews, and network meta-analyses

Responsibilities

Design and execution of Health Economic and Outcomes Research (HEOR) research in the forms of economic modeling, database analysis, observational research, systematic literature review, evidence synthesis, value dossier development and other types of HEOR research, and provide trial design recommendations.
Set the HEOR evidence generation priorities and plan for the assigned Rare Disease indications in life cycle or under development and incorporate them into broader Sanofi planning documents such as the integrated evidence generation plan (IEGP).
Operate as part of a multi-functional global Brand team and development team that is responsible for designing clinical research programs to meet the evidentiary standards of regulators, health technology assessment (HTA) organizations, reimbursement authorities, third-party payers and other organizations that review evidence relevant to Sanofi medicines.
Develop collaborative research relationships, e.g Payers, that inform value to decision makers. This role will leverage payer interactions to identify strategies that will improve the impact of research and build advocates for data
Serve as a subject matter expert to provide input in various commercial, medical, market access teams, and strategy development
Demonstrate effective communication, organizational and interpersonal skills to be able to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
The incumbent is expected to work independently, but in concert with the direction provided by their management, in accordance with defined functional policies and precedents, budgetary guidelines, company values, ethics and applicable law.