Technical Lead Health Economist

Petauri is a purpose-built pharmaceutical services platform which offers broad expertise to seamlessly support our clients with impactful solutions that accelerate patient access to life-changing care. Petauri Evidence partners with market access and HEOR teams across all global and local milestones, providing the strategy, insight, evidence, and tools to ensure commercial success. We combine academic and technical rigor with specialized knowledge and commercial agility in an evidence-driven approach to optimize patient access to medicines and technologies.

Our Expertise includes Global Market Access & Pricing, local Access & HTA, Health Economics & Statistics and Value Communication. The Petauri Evidence HEOR team focuses on the technical aspects of evidence-based decision-making. We are a team with extensive experience of health economics, medical statistics and HTA. As well as providing consultancy services to the pharmaceutical industry, we support UK HTA decision-making through a collaboration with PenTAG, and by providing statistical support to the Scottish Medicines Consortium.

Our experience covers economic modelling (early, global, HTA) and statistical analyses (such as survival modelling, indirect treatment comparisons, and matching methods) and independent considered advice. We take pride in communication of our work through submission dossiers, EAG reports, conference proceedings and publications.

As a Technical Health Economist Lead, you will work across the business providing health economics and modelling expertise, to support the successful delivery of client projects and internal workstreams. You will be required to work closely with colleagues within multi-disciplinary project teams and externally with clients, external associates and third-party agencies to achieve project objectives.

• Technical - General
  • Demonstrates breadth of expertise as well as depth in particular areas of technical approaches.
  • Advocates quality control approaches are followed on all projects and support junior members of the team in QC activities. Takes ownership of improving QC practices and ways of working.
  • Leads on the development of methodological approaches for client project delivery, ensuring their needs are being met through the project delivery.
  • Demonstrates the ability to clearly and effectively communicate complex concepts and outcomes in verbal and written form; as well as link these to deliverables from other practices within the business.
• Technical – HEOR specific
  • Leads on the development of project methodology and approaches e.g. model conceptualisation or statistical analysis plans. May be involved in projects as a strategic advisor (dependent on project requirements).
  • Anticipates risk in approaches and proactively recommends mitigation or alternatives to clients in order to achieve their market access goals.
  • Draws on expertise from outside of the HEOR team where necessary to ensure that client needs are met.
  • Clear understanding of HE/statistical practices relevant to their role, and can communicate methods effectively to clients/stakeholders through different means (presentations, discussions, written reports etc.).
• Project leadership and consulting
  • Confidently and effectively leads larger projects and programmes of work, which may include multi-disciplinary workstreams.
  • A confident communicator, leads on all elements and formats of client communications.
  • Offers strategic partnership and consultancy to clients, demonstrating deep understanding of their commercial goals and drawing on previous experiences and wider aspects of market access, policy or health systems.
  • Ensure deliverables are submitted on time and according to budget.
  • Effectively supports other team members with their workload management and proactively identifies potential resource issues amongst the team. Contributes towards overall team workload planning through a combination of line management, project leading, and HEOR team planning.
  • May undertake line management of 1-4 junior team members.
  • Mentors and supports junior members of the project team or across the wider HEOR team.
• Team (functional) leadership
  • Contributes to internal initiatives to support team development.
  • Takes the lead in driving best practice and developing new methodologies and approaches.
  • Demonstrates and role models good leadership behaviours within the team and deputises for associate directors as required.
• Business development, thought leadership & external presence
  • Confidently leads on proposal development within the HEOR team, and with the wider PE group. Clearly communicates the value of the proposal approach and understanding of the wider context for the client.
  • Participates in scoping and introductory calls with client, including credentials and pitch presentations.
  • Develops and builds client relationships and may take a lead on client.