JOB DESCRIPTION

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life – to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies.
Our work in specialty diagnostics – from providing diagnostic assays and instruments to clinical monitoring across disease stages – improves the diagnosis and management of blood cancers and immune system disorders. Your determination to put patients at the heart of every decision will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

EDUCATION

• B.S., Masters, PharmD, MD, or Doctoral Degree in a life science, economics/health economics, health policy, healthcare finance, or a related field required.

EXPERIENCE

• 5 years of experience in health economics and reimbursement in pharma, medical device, or diagnostics industry required for candidates with an advanced degree. 8 years of direct HEOR experience required for all other candidates.
• Proficiency in SAS, SPSS, or R required.
• Consistent track record to independently develop economic and population health models to support value propositions across all phases of a product’s lifecycle required.
• Publication record in health economics strongly valued.
• Technical and analytic capabilities in the following areas: economic modeling, economic evaluation, cost-effectiveness evaluation, patient focused outcomes, burden of disease, epidemiology, statistics, and health care policy.
• Experience / knowledge of global HTAs evidentiary requirements and processes.
• Proven record to drive research agendas to completion and dissemination.
• Solid understanding of Market Access processes and reimbursement methodologies required. Previous work experience in Market Access, reimbursement related role in industry or with a payer is highly valued.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• Up to 20% travel domestically and internationally
• Ability to think innovatively and inventively about HEOR strategies. Broad and diverse clinical knowledge highly valued.
• Ability to work proactively to identify challenges and problems. Takes initiative to determine solutions.

• Support development, execution of global HEOR and evidence generation strategies to support global product launches, label expansions, and US & EU market access.
• Conduct HEOR studies and build value materials to meet global evidentiary requirements (i.e. global value dossiers, US & EU budget impact models, cost-effectiveness analyses, synthetic control studies, literature syntheses, etc.)
• Pull through the evidence generated into publications.
• Support coordination and implementation of global health technology assessment (HTA) strategies, including dossier development and submissions, in collaboration with Market Access colleagues.
• Provide support and mentorship to early-stage program teams to optimize clinical development.
• Partner with Payer, Market Access, and Medical Science Liaison teams to understand and meet needs of key partner evidentiary requirements.
• Support direct engagements with commercial payers, Laboratory Benefit Managers (LBMs), Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs), state Medicaid authorities and HTA organizations outside the US on an ad-hoc basis.
• Be a subject matter authority on HEOR, sharing knowledge and providing informed evidence-based recommendations to other functions as needed.
• Remain on the forefront of the relevant competitive landscape as well as emerging HEOR methodologies and applications.
• Communicate regularly with internal and external partners to ensure all parties are up to date on the HEOR information relevant to them, including strategies, risks, and progress.