HEOR Medical Strategy Lead - Rare/Orphan Diseases

Make your mark for patients

We are looking for a talented and motivated individual to make a difference for patients living with serious diseases. Are you interested in bringing new innovation to market? We are looking for a talented individual to fill the position of: HEOR Medical Strategy Lead for Rare/Orphan diseases. This is a hybrid role and could be based out of one of two locations: Our US Headquarters in Smyrna, GA or our location in Raleigh, NC.

The HEOR (Health Economics and Outcomes research) Medical Strategy Lead will be responsible for planning, implementing, and delivering health economics and outcomes research strategy aligned with access aspirations. This includes implementing innovative HEOR activities and partnerships that produce scientific insights and evidence to support product value propositions within the US for UCB's rare and orphan portfolio. Further, the HEOR Medical Strategy Lead will play a key role in developing the engagement approach of value propositions and HEOR evidence to key US payers, policymakers, and formulary influencers.

Annual Salary Range (Base): $197,600 to $259,400

You like to work in an environment where you can:

• Provide leadership by demonstrating strong acumen in HEOR and consistently displaying an ability to translate key business questions into executable HEOR initiatives
• Drive alignment with Payer Value Strategy leads to implement an HEOR strategy aligned with corporate and access goals
• Leverage subject matter expertise to drive the timely execution of payer-relevant HEOR initiatives and resources
• Direct execution of collaborative evidence generation projects in support of health economics, patient-reported outcomes, epidemiology, patient access and health policy.
• Partner with the clinical development team to determine HEOR strategies including inclusion, analysis, and validation of quality of life or patient reported outcomes in development plan.
• Collaborate with field HEOR leads to create and execute an impactful customer engagement strategy

You will contribute by:

• Leading the strategic development, execution and delivery of HEOR plans for rare/orphan.
• Drive innovative and impactful engagement plans to ensure HEOR data is translated appropriately and consistently to key payer audiences.
• Collaborating with the local/global mission, Access, and RWE leads to ensure alignment and relevance of evidence generation strategies
• Maintaining and communicating best practice on industry standards and proactively respond to market trends/changes in the external US HEOR and standard of care requirements.
• Partner closely with field HEOR team, Access Strategy Leads, National Account team to ensure end-to-end HEOR solutions to help drive access needs

Interested? For this position, you'll need the following education, experience, and skills:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master's Degree
• 3+ years of experience in health services research, public health, epidemiology, or health economics
• 5+ years payer experience
• 1+ years field HEOR experience
• Demonstrated success in contributing to multi-disciplinary teams including outcomes research, clinical research to support product marketing, reimbursement and formulary acceptance
• Demonstrated ability to communicate scientific evidence, with strong written and verbal presentation skills, is required

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD, PharmD or MD
• 3+ years of experience in health services research, public health, epidemiology, or health economics
• 7+ years of payer experience
• 2+ years field HEOR experience
• 2+ years experience with negotiations with pricing authorities, institutional customers (employers, hospitals, managed care organizations, government) and fund holding authorities preferable
• Pharmaceutical, Biotech, or medical device industry experience strongly preferred
• Broad experience in collaborating with research partners and in managing multiple tasks and complex projects is expected
• In-depth knowledge of the U.S. healthcare system, healthcare regulatory, reimbursement and policy environment/customers

UCB is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions will be made without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us on US-Reasonable_Accommodation@ucb.com for application to US based roles. Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments; we will not be able to support you through this channel.