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An award-winning Market Access Consultancy specializing in HEOR are looking for a talented modeller with a background in Health Economics to join their highly sought after Health Economics Modelling team. This Is an exceptional role for a talented Modeler with a desire to develop creative, intuitive models to join a team of leading experts supporting innovative healthcare products market access

The company

The company, a leading Market Access Consultancy, are passionate about science and innovation in health technology, more over they are interested in the real world impact of such innovations. The company employs the best, creative talent from the 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 innovate medicines, diagnostics, medical devices and healthcare delivery across a variety of disease areas.

The company know 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 Team

The Health Economics Modelling team are experts in creating intuitive scientifically robust and clinically appropriate models. They are the team clients come to when they require specialist modelling expertise. They excel across all model types and are recognised experts in creating new 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 includes:

• 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 accessor 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.