Principal HEOR Specialist -

Medtronic•Mounds View, MN

About The Position

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 POSITION DESCRIPTION: The Principal Health Economics and Outcomes Specialist will be a critical leader in Surgical OU Statistics and Health Economics & Outcomes Research (HEOR) team. This role is responsible for providing strategic, analytical and methodological expertise to support the development and execution of global health economic and outcomes research evidence for Surgical products, procedures, services, and disease focus areas. Specifically, this role will provide leadership and support to design and execute RWE (Real World Evidence) studies using administrative health care claims data, electronic health record data and other data sources to fulfill the evidence needs of Surgical products and are submitted to regulatory agencies and notified bodies. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams with clinical, regulatory, medical affairs, marketing, reimbursement, healthcare policy, and other functions on real world evidence generation strategies, research methods, study design, and research standards using real world data. other duties may be assigned.

Requirements

Experience working with healthcare claims and/or EHR data
Proficiency programming using statistical software (e.g. SAS, R, etc), data visualization, graphical presentation, and study report/manuscript preparation
Strong subject matter expertise in real-world data and retrospective data analysis methods
Proven track record of peer-reviewed scientific publications
Bachelor’s degree
Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of 7 years of experience working in health economics and outcomes research, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of experience

Nice To Haves

Master or PHD degree in Biostatistics, Statistics, Economics, Health Economics, Epidemiology, Health Services Research, or Public Health
Experience in the healthcare industry (medical device, pharmaceutical, biotech, insurance, hospital, or health system)
Strong analytic and quantitative and research design skills; experience with statistical methods for handling large observational database.
Strong experience with statistical programming (SQL/SAS).
Experience with data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI).
Experience and familiar with literature systematic review and meta-analysis.
Experience with economic modeling.
Experience with advanced predictive modeling techniques (machine learning algorithms) and their potential application to retrospective healthcare data
Experience in the analysis, synthesis, and presentation of complex data from multiple sources
Proven relationship-building and maintaining skills with internal and external stakeholders including physician customers, hospital administrators or payers
Proven ability to work effectively in a highly matrixed organization
Ability to lead and influence in projects with cross-functional teams
Proven ability to strategically manage a portfolio of projects or initiatives with high business acumen

Responsibilities

Design and implement RWE studies for regulatory agency submissions, fulfillment of evidence needs submitted to notified bodies, marketing decisions and product reimbursement strategies, using administrative health care claims data, electronic health record data and other real-world data sources
Provides hands-on support in study design, protocol development, analysis, programming, interpretation, study report and presentation of RWE studies by designing and conducting scientifically rigorous research
Drive and develop the publications (abstracts, posters, oral presentations, manuscripts) based on the analyses performed, with the intent of publications in peer-reviewed journals and presentation at clinical and economics conferences.
Prepare results of analyses for internal and external presentation; with content adapted to the audience at hand.
Create visually appealing and simple to understand representation of complex analyses
Authors and documents all studies related files by complying with internal SOPs and best practices
Works with clinical research function to add relevant health outcomes and economic endpoints to clinical trials, and clinical biostatisticians to analyze and report study results
Design, modify, or implement economic models using inputs from clinical and observational data research, literature review, and clinical or stakeholder expertise.
Develop country specific evidence to meet requirements for optimal reimbursement coverage and usage
Conducts a range of ad hoc projects and other tasks as needed to support functional excellence of health economics and outcomes research
Develop procedure and device-specific knowledge of Surgical product portfolio and published evidence, and apply this knowledge to evidence planning, needs assessment, and study protocol design

Benefits

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
Health, Dental and vision insurance
Health Savings Account
Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
Life insurance
Long-term disability leave
Dependent daycare spending account
Tuition assistance/reimbursement
Simple Steps (global well-being program)
Incentive plans
401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
Short-term disability
Paid time off
Paid holidays
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Employee Assistance Program
Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums)
Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).