Director of Global Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR)

at  Ascendis Pharma

Are you passionate about leading the planning and implementation of HEOR activities? Do you have extensive experience within the pharmaceutical or biotech industry?
If so, now is your chance to join Ascendis Pharma as our new Director of Global HEOR.
Ascendis Pharma is a fast-growing biopharmaceutical company with locations in Denmark, Germany, and the United States.
We are applying our TransCon technology to build a leading, fully integrated biopharmaceutical company focused on making a meaningful difference in patients’ lives. Guided by our core values of patients, science, and passion, we use our TransCon® drug development platform to fulfill our mission of developing new and potentially best-in-class therapies to address unmet medical needs. Today, we have a growing pipeline of prodrug therapies in development, each designed to be a best-in-class therapy.
We are seeking a passionate Director of Global HEOR to join our growing team. As a key member of the Ascendis Pharma team, you will play a crucial role in leading the planning and implementation of HEOR studies to demonstrate and differentiate the value proposition and corresponding scientific evidence of Ascendis products for payers, patients, health care practitioners and other key stakeholders.
Through project leadership and partnership across cross-functional teams, the Director ensures the global HEOR evidence generation strategy is in alignment with broader endocrine rare disease area development strategies and global market access plans.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment, collaborate with cross-functional, global teams working together to achieve extraordinary results.
You will be joining the Global HEOR team consisting of 2 colleagues, and report directly Alden Raymond Smith who is based in California, U.S. You will be based in Hellerup, Denmark.

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

You hold a relevant academic degree – preferably a Ph.D. (or a master’s degree as a minimum) in Health Economics, Outcomes Research, Health Services Research, Public Health, or related discipline – and 8+ years of HEOR experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech or a related industry.

• Design and execute prospective and retrospective studies including database analyses, comparative effectiveness, meta-analyses/systematic reviews, to support the value proposition of Ascendis development assets.
• Lead development and selection of disease-specific clinical outcomes assessments (PRO, ObsRo) for incorporation into clinical trial programs.
• Internal and external stakeholder collaboration in the execution of health economic and outcome research studies, including but not limited to retrospective claims analysis, prospective observational studies, patient-reported outcomes, comparative effectiveness research, network meta-analysis, and economic modeling.
• Support design and development of global economic models and local adaptation for all global regions.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams (e.g., Medical Affairs, HEOR, Market Access, Clinical Development) to develop global core-value, AMCP and reimbursement/HTA dossiers within global regions.
• Lead vendor management for the timely execution of health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) projects including but not limited to contracting, project management, and invoice approval.