Director, Outcomes Research

Job Description

• Join the premier biopharmaceutical company in Asia Pacific for over 60 years.

• Bring your entrepreneurial curiosity and learning spirit into a career of purpose, personal growth, and leadership.

• Apply if you have the right skill set and experience, irrespective of your current location in the Asia Pacific region. If successful, you can work from your current home country and not be required to relocate to our regional office in Singapore.  

Join the Regional Asia Pacific (AP) Outcome Research team and work with a team of regional experts to primarily support the key therapeutic areas. Under the guidance of the OR AP Lead, you will support the interpretation and translation of -integrated evidence strategies developed at the global level for adaptation by AP markets.

Role Overview:

You  will join the Value & Implementation Outcomes Research (V&I OR) regional team and focus in the area of expertise. You will have the responsibility of supporting the interpretation and translation of V&I OR integrated evidence strategies for products developed at the global level to company’s affiliates. The scope of this support will include National Immunization Program (NIP)/Health Technology Assessment (HTA)/reimbursement dossier submission and overall Real World Evidence strategies: tailoring these global strategies to the country strategies in the region. This process includes tight alignment with the global V&I strategy and plans for the therapeutic area, as well as having a high-level awareness of the setting and challenges. A close collaboration with regional above-markets teams including Medical Affairs, Access & Pricing, Commercial, and Policy & Communications is required to ensure consistency and alignment with strategies. Another focus will be to collaborate with markets to identify evidence gaps as well as how to support the value discussion, and address these from the Health Economic and Outcomes Research (HEOR) perspective, including leading non-interventional studies and supporting development of meaningful tools and arguments addressing discussion and interaction with stakeholders, including HTA/reimbursement agencies, National Treatment/Immunization Programs   and  Advisory Groups , payers, policymakers, health systems and clinicians at country and regional level.
 

The role involves interactions with country affiliates to have an understanding of country-specific NIP/HTA/reimbursement needs and to support timely and efficient NIP/HTA/reimbursement submission, including support country specific adaptation of the global cost-effectiveness (CE) and budget impact (BI) models. You should be able to work with local teams around HEOR strategy and support and train the teams in relation to local HEOR and Local Data Generation (LDG) study execution. Another important element is to support  colleagues as well as local thought leaders/researchers to understand and utilize evidence in the areas of HTA, HEOR and RWE, enabling them to make correct interpretations of HEOR studies as well as how to interpret CE and BI analysis for health policy decision-making at various levels in healthcare systems.

Responsibilities and Primary Activities

• Collaborate on V&I regional strategy and ensure excellence in execution of identified tactics for our products

• Ensure that evidence generation strategy is implemented on a regional and supported on a local level, this also includes highlighting local needs, data gaps and insights to the global V&I OR strategy

• Understanding of HTA and market access environment

• Ensuring that V&I OR therapeutic area activities are optimized within region of job posting and actively communicate across functions to ensure efficiency in regard to alignment and optimal support

• Providing scientific health economic and outcomes research support

• Align V&I OR activities, including studies, models, publications, advice, to priorities for the markets– working in close collaboration with the above-market support teams in Market Access & Pricing, Medical Affairs, Policy & Communications and Marketing

Required Qualifications, Skills, & Experience

Minimum

• A doctoral degree (M.D., Ph.D. or Pharm.D.) or MSc/MPH with equivalent work experience in health economics, epidemiology, outcomes research, health services research, public health management or related fields

• A minimum of 5 years biotech/pharmaceutical HEOR experience, including market access experience, in the region/countries

• Experience working within the applicable region/countries

• Proven track record of success in executing HEOR strategies, including development and execution of RWE observational studies and health economic models, as demonstrated through peer-reviewed presentations and publications

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills; ability to communicate functionally explicit information across a wide array of audiences, including scientific and commercial groups

• Strong leadership and strategic thinking skills

Preferred

• Experience in application of HEOR methods for applicable products

• Experience in collaborating with external researcher teams, academic health centers, and contract research organizations, setting up and executing studies, and authoring presentations and publications

• Experience with development of calculators/tools

• Experience in working in the field/therapeutic area

• Experience and success in leading projects and interacting with cross-functional teams

• Experience working with health economic model adaptations

• Documented communication skills focused on training/teaching in the areas of HTA, or and/or RWE

Who we are:

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for  life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.
 

 What we look for

 Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today

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