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Health Economics Associate - Flexible Working Available

Employer
Roche
Location
Burgess Hill, West Sussex
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
1 May 2020

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Sector
Healthcare & Medical
Hours
Full Time
Flexibility
Flexible working available
Contract Type
Permanent

Job Details

Health Economics Associate – Access & Innovation

Who we are

Roche is the world’s leading research-based healthcare company, providing innovative products to both the Pharmaceutical and Diagnostics industries. We are passionate about transforming patients’ lives and at Roche, we focus on developing innovative medicines and diagnostic tests that help patients live longer, better lives.

Based in a state of the art site in Burgess Hill (15 minutes by train from Brighton), we are giving one early career, Health Economics Graduate the opportunity to work as a Health Economics Associate, within Roche Diagnostic’s Access and Innovation department starting in Summer 2020.

Roche Diagnostics provides a wide range of products and services to the NHS to help clinicians with the diagnosis and treatment of patients. The Health Economics Function is responsible for ensuring the value of diagnostics to the patient and healthcare system is clearly demonstrated to position them at the heart of care pathways.

The Position

This is an excellent opportunity for a Health Economics (or Health Technology Appraisal, Decision Modelling or similar) graduate seeking an early career position with potential for growth in a world-leading Healthcare Organisation.

You will be working in the Health Economics function and closely with the Market Access and Marketing teams to gain invaluable market access exposure. You will also work with the wider Access and Innovation and Roche Diagnostics teams across the UK and Ireland. You key responsibilities will be to provide health economics modelling, analysis and project management expertise to maximise the value of Roche Diagnostics technologies. You will contribute to key projects including value proposition development, health economic research and publications, and specific disease-related projects.

Other key responsibilities include:

  • Developing a range of economic models, tools and materials to support market access activities at a national, regional and local level;
  • Literature review, critical appraisal and evidence synthesis of clinical trials;
  • Writing up economic models for publication or HTA submission;
  • Creating and delivering training material for field-based teams on clinical and health economic data;
  • Leading on the implementation of tools and materials to internal and external stakeholders in order to accelerate adoption of our high medical value products;
  • Disseminating NICE consultation documents, summarizing and briefing on the context and implications, collating responses from local and global stakeholders, overseeing review and approval of drafts, and submitting responses within deadlines;
  • Providing content or editorial support for grant applications, marketing material containing economic messages, or market access material where necessary;
  • Attending and gathering information from relevant external meetings including NICE guideline workshops and committee meetings, scientific grant briefing meetings and MedTech industry meetings;
  • Developing request for proposals for external vendor support from an agreed template, and liaising with vendors over clarification questions.

Limited travel (<10%), including some international travel, is expected.

Who you are

We are looking for a flexible, hardworking and highly motivated individual with an enquiring mind. A strategic thinker; you can drive change and the adoption of new concepts. You will already have some work experience in Health Economics gained within a Pharmaceutical, Medical Technology, Health Technology Appraisal Agency, Healthcare agency environment or the NHS. Working familiarity with at least one disease area relevant to the Roche Diagnostics portfolio is a plus. You will be educated to at least a Master’s level in Health Economics, Health Technology Appraisal, Decision Modelling or similar and have model building experience using MS Excel. Knowledge of statistical analysis/modelling software such as R, STATA or TreeAge would be an advantage.

In order to be successful in this role you will have the ability to absorb, simplify and train on detailed clinical and health economic information, as well as the ability to work reliably and to deadlines. Demonstrable project and process management skills, you can prioritize multiple tasks and goals to ensure they are achieved in a timely, on-target fashion. Broad experience in literature searching, literature critiquing, data summarising and data analysis techniques, with an awareness of relevant data sources, is a must. Patients are at the heart of what we do, so a strong inclination to realisable solutions is desirable.

You will be a strong communicator, able to work independently and within a team. You will have experience of developing effective working relationships with a wide range of colleagues and working in multi-stakeholder, cross-disciplinary teams in a complex matrix organisation.

International work experience is a plus. You will possess an outstanding eye for detail and quality, and be fluent in written and verbal English to a strong, scientific standard.

Healthcare is personal and it’s about YOU as an individual; in your application that will make the difference.

Company

With over 1400 people occupying our site in Welwyn, you can expect opportunities in Early Development (pRED), Product Development (PD), Commercial (Rx) and of course our corporate function.

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