Senior Health Economist

Costello Medical•Vancouver, BC

1d•CA$95,000 - CA$100,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As an early member of our Health Economics team in our brand-new Canadian office, you will take a leading role in the development of health economic models across a variety of disease areas, using your expertise to deliver high-quality projects and build client relationships. You will also help to drive business development, as well as overseeing and supporting junior team members as we expand our presence and impact in Canada. This role is a full-time, permanent position. Costello Medical is one of the largest independent global healthcare agencies specializing in medical communications, market access, and health economics and outcomes research. We work with a wide range of clients, including the industry’s most successful pharmaceutical and MedTech companies, patient and public health bodies, and charitable organizations. We have been listed on the Top 100 Best Companies to Work For list since 2017, as well as receiving B Corporation Accreditation in 2022. As a Senior Health Economist at Costello Medical, you will play a key role within project teams to ensure work is delivered to an exceptionally high quality and in line with client expectations. This includes providing strategic advice to clients from model conceptualization through to interpretation of results, training more junior members of our Health Economics team, and delivering technical work yourself to progress your own modelling skills. There may also be opportunities to line manage Health Economist Interns to develop your mentorship skills. Our Health Economics team delivers modelling projects to a broad range of pharmaceutical and MedTech companies as well as public sector and non-profit organizations. You will work across different client accounts in many different disease areas and should therefore be able to familiarise yourself with new disease areas and model structures quickly. The ideal candidate would also have direct experience in the delivery of health economic models for Canadian HTA submissions to Canada’s Drug Agency (CDA-AMC) and Institut national d’excellence en santé et en services sociaux (INESSS), as well as global and US model development, given our Canadian team will support on global, Canadian, and US projects. As a founding member of our Health Economics team in the North American region, you will also play a key role in contributing to business development by developing and maintaining excellent client relationships and identifying opportunities to provide additional services to clients within projects. Senior Health Economists are supported to progress to the Consultant Health Economist role, and this can typically be achieved in 1 to 2 years. As a Consultant Health Economist, you would have ultimate responsibility for the high-quality delivery of a range of projects, and lead in business development efforts to win new work and maintain and grow your own client relationships. In addition to project management, you would line manage team members and have internal responsibilities spanning areas such as recruitment and training.

Requirements

Experience in successfully conceptualizing, developing and communicating health economic models that demonstrate the value of new healthcare interventions in the Canadian setting.
Experience in building and maintaining client relationships.
Experience working on health economic projects, for example cost-effectiveness models or budget impact models, directly with clients, from project initiation to completion.
Experience leading a project team, including delegating tasks and managing the time of others coupled with the ability to manage timelines across multiple projects at once and the flexibility to respond to changing deadlines.
A proven ability to build robust and sustainable client relationships, which involves communicating directly with clients and responding to different communication styles.
A degree level or higher qualification in a relevant discipline (minimum 3.3 GPA). Relevant disciplines are those that demonstrate a high level of technical and mathematical ability, such as mathematics, economics, physics or computer science.
Experience with developing health economic models for submission to HTA bodies, such as the CDA-AMC or INESSS.
Excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to explain complex modelling techniques and results to non-experts.
Advanced skills in Excel and VBA.
The ability to use your initiative and work independently, in addition to working collaboratively within project teams.
A high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
Flexibility to respond to changing deadlines.
Must have the right to work in Canada independently from the company.

Nice To Haves

Formal degree-level or higher (i.e. postgraduate) training in statistics or health economic modelling is desirable.
Prior experience of having mentored others in any setting.
Experience with other software (such as R, C++, STATA).
A willingness to learn new technical and programming skills.
An aptitude for business development.
A strong sense of initiative.
The willingness to build a small team with support and guidance from senior colleagues.
Experience in the delivery of health economic models for Canadian HTA submissions to Canada’s Drug Agency (CDA-AMC) and Institut national d’excellence en santé et en services sociaux (INESSS).
Global and US model development experience.

Responsibilities

Take a leading role in the development of health economic models across a variety of disease areas.
Deliver high-quality projects and build client relationships.
Help to drive business development.
Oversee and support junior team members.
Provide strategic advice to clients from model conceptualization through to interpretation of results.
Train more junior members of the Health Economics team.
Deliver technical work to progress modelling skills.
Potentially line manage Health Economist Interns to develop mentorship skills.
Familiarise yourself with new disease areas and model structures quickly.
Contribute to business development by developing and maintaining excellent client relationships.
Identify opportunities to provide additional services to clients within projects.

Benefits

Hybrid and flexible working options
Generous vacation allowance
Private health and dental insurance
Life insurance
RRSP/TFSA plan with up to a 5% employer contribution
Full funding and study leave for external training
18 days’ vacation leave increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 22 days and 11 statutory holidays
Flexible, reasonable working hours and the chance to work from home for up to half of your working time
100% employer covered extended healthcare plan, as well as life insurance and AD&D coverage
Retirement savings via a RRSP/TFSA plan with up to a 5% employer match
Paid funding for external education and study leave
Paid and unpaid sabbaticals based on length of service