Senior Health Economist (R46)
Lumanity, Ireland
Job Description
We are seeking a Senior Health Economist to join our Value Access and Outcomes team, which serves our clients by identifying, substantiating, and conveying the value of groundbreaking medical advances.
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Your role:
In your role as a Senior Health Economist, you will have responsibilities focused on client-facing project delivery and business development.
Your day to day responsibilities will be:
- Taking a strategic and technical leadership role on economic modelling projects with the opportunity to fulfil a technical leadership role within multi-disciplinary projects including global evidence generation and health technology assessment submissions
- Providing strategic and technical expertise both to clients and internally
- Training, mentoring amp; supporting more junior health economists
- Playing an active role in business development amp; RFPs
- Depending on your interests, work on development opportunities such as: publishing work, new methods development amp; application, presenting at conferences, providing economic input to evidence generation activities, expert involvement on advisory boards/reimbursement bodies to name a few
Requirements
Your Skills:
You will be an experienced health economics professional and lead by example upholding and advocating the company values
You will have:
- Several years experience in the hands-on design and construction of economic models from within a consultancy, the pharmaceutical industry or a relevant academic environment
- Designed and built several cost-effectiveness and/or budget impact models from concept to conclusion, including quality control, review and critique of models
- Be skilled with Excel and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA; this is our primary modelling platform)
- Excellent English oral and written communication skills and comfort liaising with technical and non-technical clients (both internally and externally)
- Proven ability to manage projects within timelines, budget and scope
- Proven ability to resolve issues and challenges:
- Experience developing cost-effectiveness and/or budget impact models for global use or experience developing HTA reimbursement submissions (such as NICE in England)
You will have a distinct advantage if you have:
- Experience of programming individual patient simulations or discrete event simulations (preferably in R or VBA)
- Experience programming economic models using R
- Experience of analysis of clinical trial data for use within health economic models, e.g. survival analysis, quality-of-life analysis, and combinations of randomized controlled trial and non-randomized controlled trial data
- Published work in peer-reviewed journals and/or presented at conferences
Benefits
- Competitive salary (dependent on experience) plus bonus scheme
- 33.5 days paid leave including bank holidays and year end office closure
- Generous Pension
- Healthcare and well being benefits
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of merit, irrespective of protected characteristics and in accordance with legislative requirements.