Project Leader HEOR - Deputy Director (m/f/d), Berlin

Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the Life Science fields of health care and agriculture. Its products and services are designed to benefit people and improve their quality of life. At Bayer you have the opportunity to be part of a culture where we value the passion of our employees to innovate and give them the power to change.

Missions

• Leading the co-development and execution of a global, comprehensive and scientifically rigorous GHEOR program that is aligned with the commercial and market access strategies for the brand(s) and with the must-win countries
• Responsible for driving the collaborative generation of a payer evidence strategy, plan, the evidence deliverables (e.g. payer-perspective in clinical trials, RWE studies, patient reported outcomes, resource data collection, statistical analyses incl. network meta-analyses and economic models) and their communication through Global Value Dossiers (GVD), publications, etc. for a Bayer product / indication together with the main countries and the cross-functional GMACS team
• Ensuring that the market access and payer perspective is integrated in the target product profile, the clinical development program(s), the RWE development program(s), and in the commercial strategy of the brand(s)
• Providing timely strategic recommendations to early clinical development programs by identifying appropriate comparators, target patient populations, and end-points (clinical, economic, patient reported outcomes) aimed at ensuring portfolio prioritization and asset differentiation for the purpose of relative value demonstration, and by giving input to HPRs
• Coordinating a common global strategy and package for submissions to health technology assessment (HTA) agencies in securing reimbursement
• Developing together with the Access Core Team value propositions and proactively identifying evidence requirements to support relative value demonstration and product differentiation
• Representing the GHEOR function, managing effective communications with various internal global/regional team(s), as well as appropriate external forums and meetings

Profile

• Doctoral degree (PhD, DRPH, ScD) in health services research, public health, epidemiology, or health economics or a doctoral degree in a clinical discipline (medicine, pharmacy, nursing) preferred
• Minimally the position requires a masters degree (MSc, MPH) in health services research, public health, epidemiology, or health economics or an MBA
• Long-term experience working in HEOR, Market Access and/or closely related areas in a pharmaceutical company, including a major fraction of experience in global roles and in high-level HTA countries (e.g. UK, Canada, Scandinavia, US)
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to understand and respond to multiple internal and external customer demands and manage and handle conflict constructively with limited supervisory support required
• Excellent oral and written English communication skills
• In depth knowledge of clinical research especially clinical drug studies and drug development strategies
• Excellent judgment in conflict management, negotiation and influence
• Hands on experience in the evaluation of health care interventions and conducting health economics, health related quality of life, and/or health services research studies for a pharmaceutical company
• Excellent process and project management skills
• In depth knowledge of global health care systems and understand needs for health technology