Director, HEOR Strategy, Ovarian Cancer Lead - job 2 of 3

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Director, HEOR Strategy Ovarian Lead (HSOL) – directs, develops, organizes, and implements the ovarian cancer (OCa)HEOR strategy with concurrence of functional management to allow the development of each asset to proceed expeditiously and smoothly toward registration, PR&A and market launch in compliance with national and international governmental regulations for various asset programs, including ovarian cancer adjacencies. HSOL reports to Senior Director, Solid Tumor Oncology HEOR Strategy Team Lead and may have 1-4 direct reports.

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for the creation of OCa HEOR strategy and plans for all products within the OCa portfolio for which he/she has oversight and to ensure strategic plans within his/her TAs are constantly relevant to product development and the marketplace.
• Directs the design, conduct, and analysis of projects within each product area strategy across multiple programs and is accountable for project execution, budget and meeting/exceeding ethical, scientific, regulatory, commercial, and quality requirements.
• HSOL interacts with cross-functional leaders for OCa disease area. Highly and effectively communicates findings to internal leadership (Executive Leadership, Area VPs, GMs etc.) and external (e.g. HTAs/Payers, patient advocacy groups and KOLs etc.)
• In the post-marketing setting, this position is responsible for developing and executing HEOR product life-cycle and labeling strategies.
• Responsible for integrating the expressed needs for value demonstration from customers (payers, physicians and patients), the direction of the commercial organization in product marketing and the realities of the science surrounding a product in developing strategies
• Assumes full scientific HEOR strategic support of commercialization activities including the facilitation of obtaining and maintaining market access and growing the market Accountable for end-to-end delivery of HEOR book of work under their remit, from strategy development to content pull through
• Accountable for ensuring strong partnership with all relevant Value & Evidence functions to ensure a comprehensive HEOR voice is represented in cross-functional meetings Partners with Solid Tumor Team Lead to shape OCa oncology patient access policy environment, including successfully engaging and collaborating HTA/ payers, clinical practice guideline organizations and US oncology pathway stakeholders
• Partners with Solid Tumor Team Lead to establish external alliances to drive OCa Oncology payer/pathway centric fit-for-purpose evidence generation in support of pre- and post-launch assets
• Develops OCa oncology enterprise research partnership with academic and community oncology centers and pathways to generate evidence demonstrating clinical and economic value of novel and established biomarkers.
• Leads development of evidence across the oncology enterprise to understand and establish population diversity across OCa in support of advancing clinical development (e.g., regulatory diversity plan) and post-launch LCM.
• Measures and communicates the impact of payer/pathway and other oncology evidence partnerships to the leadership and external scientific community

Position can remote

• Graduate degree minimum required (e.g. MSc, MPH, PhD)
• 10+ years of experience required with MSc/MPH/MBA degree; 7+ years of experience required with PharmD/PhD in HEOR or relevant related fields (health economics, epidemiology, health services research, HTA/market access, or other research-focused public health field)
• Demonstrated in depth understanding of fundamental health services research methods and tools, including health economic modeling, patient-reported outcomes, statistics, and real-world evidence studies including technical and methodological aspects of registries and observational study design, implementation, analysis and interpretation.
• HEOR experience in diagnostics • Demonstrated HEOR performance in high-quality high-speed dynamic work environment.
• Demonstrated agility to meet deadlines under pressure, accelerated timelines and constrained resources.
• Experience with HTA organizations such as NICE, IQWIG, CADTH, MSAC, ICER and other HTA groups.
• Experience with IDN/GPO/collaborative groups on external research partnerships
• Capable of independently managing complex non-interventional study projects
• Knowledge and understanding of the processes for developing health technologies including drugs and diagnostic devices.
• Excellent interpersonal skills required: ability to understand and respond to multiple internal and external customers.
• Excellent oral and written English communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to assess anticipated value for projects/programs to ensure alignment to business priorities and prioritize accordingly.
• An "execution mindset" focused on getting things done quickly and simply
• Strong project management abilities (contracting, budgeting, vendor management) essential.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects (multitask) involving complex processes, significant budget, competing deadlines and rapidly shifting priorities
• Ability to influence key members of medical, clinical, and commercial teams constructively and without conflict
• Skilled in functioning within a matrix organization where managing through influence
• Organized and detail oriented with the ability to anticipate needs and to work proactively to prioritize & address/resolve
• Change oriented, comfortable responding to unexpected demands with tight timelines; team player
• Knowledge and experience in early drug development and commercialization.
• Direct experience leading others (direct people management), with strong track record of high level of stakeholder engagement and delivering results through oversight
• Excellent interpersonal skills: ability to understand and respond to multiple internal and external customers; build strategic partnerships internally and externally

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

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