Principal Scientist/Director - Outcomes Research - Women's Cancers

Job Description

Under the guidance of a senior leader, the Principal Scientist (Director), Outcomes Research—Women’s Cancer will be a member of the overall team responsible for an asset-level strategy and plan. Will develop and maintain tumor and indication expertise relevant to the asset. Will assess unmet medical need and value across tumors/indications for the asset for asset-level tumor/indication prioritization discussions.

Types of studies executed include prospective and retrospective observational studies to characterize disease burden and epidemiology, treatment patterns, healthcare resource utilization and costs, physician and patient satisfaction surveys, clinical and patient reported outcomes assessments, and systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Incumbent is expected to contribute to product development and marketing strategies throughout the lifecycle to ensure that product value is defined and developed to achieve optimal market/patient access and reimbursement. The incumbent is expected to work cross-functionally with clinical development, medical affairs, biostatistics, market access, commercial and country affiliates and may have direct interactions with health technology assessment (HTA) agencies and reimbursement decision makers.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead in value evidence teams in Women’s Cancer and contribute to value evidence strategies. Obtain senior management approval of evidence generation plans. Provide outcomes research leadership on cross-functional regional and global teams.

• Aligns with alliance partner(s), as necessary.

• Critically assess drivers and barriers to reimbursement and market access, and provide input into clinical, regulatory, payer/access, marketing and evidence generation strategies and programs.

• In collaboration with internal teams and external partners, design 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, and budgets.

• Develop supplementary clinical data package in close partnership with markets and HTA statistics group for submission to HTA agencies.   

• 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 relationships with scientific experts worldwide.

• Present outcomes research data at national and international congresses and publish articles in scientific journals.

Qualifications & Experience

Preferred:

• Doctoral degree (PhD, DrPH, ScD, PharmD) in relevant discipline (health services research, outcomes research, epidemiology, public health, health economics, Pharmacoeconomics, pharmacy administration) with a minimum of 4 years of experience post degree.

Required:

• Master’s degree (MSc, MPH) in relevant discipline (health services research, outcomes research, epidemiology, public health, health economics, Pharmacoeconomics, pharmacy administration) with a minimum of 6 years of experience post degree.

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