Field HEMA Manager

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.                

 

About the role:

Do you have knowledge and passion with respect to healthcare administration, healthcare delivery and health economics? Do you have the desire to be in a highly visible and influential role in a well-established medical device industry leader? Then you may be an excellent candidate for a field-based Manager role within our Health Economics and Market Access team supporting Boston Scientific’s rapidly growing Structural Heart business.  A fundamental priority for this position will be communicating the value of our Left Atrial Appendage Closure technology (WATCHMAN) business and differentiating Boston Scientific with clinical and economic customers to positively influence business objectives.

Successful candidates will have excellent technical expertise in the areas of healthcare administration and delivery, facility and physician reimbursement, and health economic value messaging. Candidates will exhibit outstanding communication skills with the ability to present complex information to a broad and diverse group of stakeholders and will have the ability to convey the unique capabilities that Boston Scientific has in this market. The role is ideal for candidates who enjoy both strategy and execution. This is a field-based position for the West territory, (located close to major airport).

 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Support implementation of health economic and value selling strategies and activities for Boston Scientific (BSC) working with divisional staff and key internal and external stakeholders:
• Develop and implement reimbursement, health economics and market access, and value selling strategies to promote growth in the WATCHMAN franchise.
• Work in partnership with sales and sales leadership to plan and prioritize customer visits to deliver value selling messages to drive BSC priorities.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Sales, Clinical and Health Economics teams to anticipate market needs and inform the development of customer-facing tools, economic models and other tactical elements of reimbursement to maximize patient access to BSC technologies.
• Educate and train sales team on health economic tools and messaging both via in-person and virtual meetings.
• Support relationships with local physician champions to support interactions with hospital administrators.
• Ensure health economic and value selling methodologies and messages are consistent across the organization and compliant with legal and regulatory guidance.

 

 Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 5 or more years of work experience.
• Minimum 3 years working in the delivery and/or administration of healthcare or the medical device industry, preferably with experience in the cardiovascular specialties
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the healthcare industry and healthcare systems
• Understanding of medical device industry reimbursement environment
• Understanding of hospital financial systems and management practices
• Knowledge of US health care policy and payment systems, including Medicare and commercial payers, in inpatient and outpatient sites of service
• Ability to work independently and effectively with minimal supervision
• Demonstrated skills in account management and customer service
• Computer literacy (Microsoft Office Suite, iPad applications)
• Field based position with overnight travel estimated at 75%

 Preferred qualifications:

• An advanced degree such as an MBA, MPH or MHA in health policy,