Principal Scientist (Director) - Outcomes Research

Merck • Montgomery Township, PA

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

This position resides within our company's Value and Implementation (V&I), Outcomes Research organization, which is responsible for real-world evidence generation and outcomes research studies to enable sustained patient access to our company’s innovations and improve patient health outcomes. Under the guidance of a senior leader, this individual will support the V&I, Outcomes Research teams in Lung Cancers.

Requirements

• Doctoral degree (PhD, MD, DrPH, ScD, or PharmD with fellowship in relevant discipline (Health services research, Outcomes research, Epidemiology, Public health, Health economics, Pharmacoeconomics, Pharmacy administration).
• Four or more years of experience post-doctoral degree or 7+ years of experience post master’s degree in life science industry conducting NIR and generating Value Evidence.
• Oncology experience
• Decision making: Identifying and understanding problems and opportunities by gathering, analyzing and interpreting quantitative and qualitative information; choosing the best course of action by establishing clear decision criteria, generating and evaluating alternatives, and making timely decisions; taking action that is consistent with available facts and constraints and optimizes probable consequences.
• Emotional intelligence: Meeting the personal needs of individuals to build trust, encourage two-way communication and strengthen relationships. Ability to work with difficult stakeholders while achieving business results.
• Networking and partnerships: Building partnerships; developing and leveraging relationships within and across work groups to achieve results.
• Innovation: Creating novel solutions with measurable value for existing and potential customers (internal or external); experimenting with new ways to solve work problems and seize opportunities that result in unique and differentiated solutions.
• Knowledge of evolving payer and reimbursement environment: Educate the asset teams on impact of US Value Assessment and other key market HTA requirements on the asset and possible mitigation strategies.
• Data Management
• Epidemiology
• Health Economics
• Health Technology Assessment (HTA)
• Innovation
• Life Science
• Outcomes Research
• Pharmacodynamics
• Pharmacokinetics
• Program Management
• Public Health
• Qualitative Coding
• Researching
• Stakeholder Relationship Management
• Strategic Planning

Nice To Haves

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Responsibilities

• Planning/managing a comprehensive program of real-world evidence and non-interventional research activities for in-line and pipeline products for lung cancers to meet the value evidence needs of clinicians, payers, policymakers, health technology assessment (HTA)/reimbursement agencies, and health systems globally.
• Critically assess drivers and barriers to reimbursement and market access in collaboration with internal teams, and provide input into clinical, payer/access, marketing and value evidence generation strategies and programs.
• In collaboration with internal teams and external partners, design non-interventional and data synthesis studies, author study protocols, develop measurement questionnaires, case report forms, data analysis plans, final study reports, scientific presentations, and publications.
• Responsible for study-related contracting, budgets, and vendor/partner management.
• Develop American Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) dossiers for US payers, and Global Value Dossiers.
• Develop supplementary clinical data package for submission to Health Technology Assessment (HTA) agencies in close partnership with country affiliates and HTA statistics group.
• Support country affiliates to understand local evidence generation needs, adapt health economic evaluations, customize outcomes research documents, such as protocols and reimbursement dossiers, according to local requirements.
• Work closely with cross functional teams to effectively communicate outcomes research and health economic modelling data internally and to external stakeholders.
• Maintain awareness of new scientific and methodological developments within therapeutic area.
• Build partnerships with scientific experts worldwide.
• Present outcomes research data at national and international congresses and publish articles in scientific journals.

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
• retirement benefits, including 401(k)
• paid holidays
• vacation
• compassionate and sick days
• annual bonus
• long-term incentive

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree