Consultant Health Economist

An award-winning market-access consultancy is looking to recruit a Health Economist / Modeler with a strong background in decision modeling (cost-effectiveness models, Budget Impact, Pricing, Disease and Natural History and/or Simulation modelling) to join their famed Health economics modelling team. This is an exceptional role for a talented health economist/ modeler skilled in model design, development and evaluation to join a thriving company providing a 360-market access solution, supporting biopharma start-ups and global multinationals, local, national and global health organizations in making key market access and policy decisions.

Key business features.

Innovation, Science, Creativity. Learning & Development, Career Development, Work Life balance.

Key Role Features

Decision Modelling, Economics Modelling, Disease and Natural History Models, Simulation Models, Cost Effectiveness Models, Budget Impact Models, Pricing Models. Model Design, Development and Evaluation. (Note- you are not expected to have experience of all these model types).

The company

The company, a leading Market Access Consultancy, are passionate about science and innovation in health technology, moreover they are interested in the real-world impact of such innovations. The company employs the best creative talent from the Market Access/HEOR Space, brilliant consultants who are genuinely excited by what they do and the positive impact their work has. They thrive in engaging with clients, overcoming market access challenges, and contributing to patient access to innovative medicines, diagnostics, medical devices and healthcare delivery across a variety of disease areas.

The company knows that their success is down to the talented people they have working for them. To support their employees to reach their full potential they provided an excellent working environment, opportunities for career development, put a huge emphasis on a healthy work/life balance and of course offer an attractive renumeration package.

The Health Economics Modelling Team

The Health Economics Modelling team are experts in creating intuitive scientifically robust and clinically appropriate models. They are the team clients who come to when they require specialist modelling expertise. They excel across all model types and are recognised experts in creating de novo models which translate complex problems clearly and transparently.

The role

Health Economists are responsible for efficient, high-quality execution on health economics (HE) projects and HE elements of cross-collaborative projects. They are expected to be able to implement economic models, run analyses and prepare relevant dissemination materials independently and contribute to proposals and internal initiatives to improve the way the company works

The main duties and responsibilities of the Health Economist include:

• Understand the model development process, including the technical skills of designing and building a health economic model (CEM, BIM, COM, DTM, early models)
• Review, extract and analyse data to be used to inform economic models (e.g. health care costs, quality-adjusted life-years, productivity losses)
• Independently develop high-quality and relevant economic models, technical reports and user guides, seeking guidance and support as needed
• Demonstrate a proactive approach to solving client challenges and research questions whilst critically evaluating value propositions within the context of the evidence base available within a project
• Implement high quality, relevant models in Excel and VBA and/or R based on agreed concept or protocol
• Adapt and conduct health economic analysis on global models to inform local HTA dossier development
• Develop models that are transparent and user friendly
• Actively participate in research dissemination including publication and presentation of research.
• Work collaboratively with the HE team and other business units across the business, as well as with clients and external collaborators
• Understand project briefs, scopes and budgets and identify ambiguity or risks and escalate as appropriate
• Begin to manage small projects, ensuring detailed knowledge of timelines and project plans
• Embed HE principles across projects, ensuring deliverables are consistently and clearly communicated
• Understand the role the company plays in providing evidence for the process of pricing, reimbursement, and market access
• Support proposal development and project pitches as required
• Comply with all internal reporting and project management systems, ensuring relevant information is kept up to date, including but not limited to, CMAP and Bob
• Contribute to internal team meetings as relevant
• Act as mentor or buddy to new team members as appropriate

To be considered for the role of Health Economics Modeller you need the following:

Education

• A degree in Science/ Healthcare
• A post-graduate qualification would be desirable.

Experience

• Relevant experience working in market access or HEOR consultancy.
• A proven track record of developing HR models for the life science industry.
• Proficient in Excel/VBA. Experience with other languages (e.g. R) desirable
• Growing experience in Project Management
• Growing experience in business development.