Senior Director of Global Health Economics & Outcomes Research (HEOR)

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The Senior Director of Global Health Economics & Outcomes Research (HEOR) will be responsible for leading the HEOR team in designing, developing, overseeing, and/or executing global HEOR efforts, supporting education and training activities for regional cross-functional teams to support access and launch readiness activities, and ensuring payer insights are leveraged to inform strategic business decisions.  Key is to develop and modify HEOR strategies and tactical plans in support of global market access and medical organization strategies to leverage and demonstrate the value of Cepheid’s products. Collaboration with others is critical and this role works closely with the Global Product Management, Medical-Scientific Affairs, Regulatory, and Commercial functions to ensure appropriate and timely integration of all relevant HEOR and payer evidence into clinical planning to optimize access and adoption of our assays/systems across all prioritized regions.

The Senior Director of Global HEOR will also ensure payer insights are leveraged to inform strategic business decisions, such as product development, marketing and commercial strategies, clinical and medical affairs and lead establishment & maintenance of payer value stories inclusive of key clinical, economic and patient-centered value messages and identify opportunities to strengthen value story. In this role, you will also lead the integrated evidence planning (IEP) process to ensure that the organization prioritizes impactful studies.

This position is within the Market Access and Government Affairs organization located in the US and will be fully remote.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Develop and modify HEOR strategies and tactical plans in support of global market access and medical organization strategies to leverage and demonstrate the value of Cepheid’s products.
• Lead Cepheid’s integrated evidence planning (IEP) process to develop comprehensive value stories and prioritize short and long-term evidence generation plans; Ensure alignment of HEOR strategies with Commercial and Medical strategy, including providing payer-based & HTA-based value evidence input into evidence development programs for Cepheid products.
• Develop and oversee quantitative health economic modeling and outcomes research/real-world evidence (RWE) studies with an integrated global approach for maximizing pricing and early/sustained market access.
• Ensure that appropriate global quantitative research and health economic modeling are undertaken to develop an integrated global approach for maximizing launch prices and early/sustained market access.
• Develop and execute a comprehensive and compelling HEOR publication plan as a part of the product publication strategy to appropriately disseminate to the value messages and evidence.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of relevant experience OR MS, MPH, MBA, PhD, PharmD, or MD with 8+ years of relevant global HEOR experience in pipeline and marketed products.
• 5+ years of people management experience
• Span of control across multiple therapeutic areas such as Medical Devices, Diagnostics, Infectious Diseases, Women’s Health, Sexual Health, Virology and/or Healthcare-associated infections
• Demonstrated understanding of the dynamics of the US and Ex-US health care systems and financing mechanisms; Public and private payer experience required.
• Experience in diagnostics/ Health Technology product development and/or commercialization (may be concurrent with health economics research and strategy experience).
• Expertise in methodologies and study designs that produce clinically and economically relevant value information in both the development and post-launch time period.

Travel Requirements:

• Up to 30% travel- domestic and international

Cepheid, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

At Cepheid we believe in designing a better, more sustainable workforce. We recognize the benefits of flexible, remote working arrangements for eligible roles and are committed to providing enriching careers, no matter the work arrangement. This position is eligible for a remote work arrangement in which you can work remotely from your home. Additional information about this remote work arrangement will be provided by your interview team. Explore the flexibility and challenge that working for Cepheid can provide.

The annual salary range for this role is $154,000-$221,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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