.Location: Barcelona, Spain (On-site) / 3 days working from the office and 2 days working from home.Position SummaryThe Associate Director, Global Health Economics & Outcomes Research (GHEOR) Analytics develops and implements HEOR Analytics strategy, including real-world study design and conduct, identification of data sources, and execution of the publication plan.
The incumbent will utilize SAS or R, web-based analytics tools, and other programming languages to efficiently work with real-world databases, to identify and discover target patient populations, describe treatment patterns, disease burden, health care resource utilization and cost, and other exploratory questions.
The Associate Director is responsible for ensuring that outcomes and quality data are produced to ensure the scientific medical standing of the potential value and real-world impact of Alexion products for payers, healthcare providers, and patients and caregivers.Principal ResponsibilitiesDesigns and implements HEOR studies that support the clinical, economic, and patient-centered value propositions, as well as reimbursement requirements for the therapeutic areas of interest.Manages the vendor and oversees the analysis activities by providing inputs to the analysis plans, monitoring the study conduct, and reviewing study results.Provides statistical guidance or methodology and interprets the analysis results.Serves as a real-world data expert, identifies data sources, and provides strategies to generate valid evidence from the appropriate databases.Provides new insights for disease areas to help shape clinical development strategies and generates real-world evidence for value decisions of therapies.Collaborates with the Biostatistics team to work on clinical trial post-hoc analysis.Generates rapid real-world evidence to empower the development needs, speed up clinical trial design, or facilitate quick decisions.Supports preparation of medical or payer advisory meetings to solicit feedback on Alexion products and therapeutic areas specific disease impacts.Ensures quality and timely deliverables for all assigned studies/projects.Supports publication planning and execution, reviews, and approves abstracts or manuscripts.Participates in acquisition strategy for real-world data sources for possible in-license/purchase and additional analytical tools for analytic needs.Contributes to the global HEOR analytics infrastructure, including developing best practices in HEOR Analytics function, identifying areas for process improvement, and providing measures to improve quality and efficiency.QualificationsPhD in Biostatistics or equivalent with at least 5 years of experience, or MS with at least 7 years of experience in biostatistics, statistical programming, Epidemiology, or Data Science