Associate Director, Heor

The Role
In this role, you will support the local generation and adaptation of data, evidence and key HEOR deliverables for Moderna products supporting pricing and reimbursement, vaccine recommendations, tender and contracting and institutional customer engagement in the Australian and New Zealand affiliate.

The role executes the local HEOR evidence and data generation and adaptation and provides strategic direction and ensures quality for external research professionals supporting modelling, evidence generation and syntheses to address successful value assessments, vaccine recommendations and price negotiations in Australia and New Zealand. The Associate Director HEOR will optimize the execution of the B2B/ B2G evidence generation and communication plans and will offer tailored evidence partnerships as solutions to stakeholders. They will work on launch vaccines and pipeline products in close collaboration with Market Access and Pricing, Marketing, Clinical Development and Medical colleagues. This position reports to the ED of Global HEOR Infectious disease with dotted line to the local Market Access Director, who will provide local direction.

Here's What You'll Do

Development, adaptation, and execution of local HEOR strategy, research studies, data and evidence and key deliverables (e.g., ensure consistency of Global Value Dossier with reimbursement dossiers) to demonstrate the value of Moderna's products incl. vaccines to support reimbursement, market access, vaccine recommendations, tender and contracting and successful institutional customer engagement

Effective communication of HEOR evidence as part of NITAG/ HTA (i.e. ATAGI / PBAC / PHARMAC), vaccine recommendation and price negotiation processes as well as evidence based B2B and B2G omnichannel execution

Represent HEOR in early scientific engagement, benefit assessment and vaccine recommendation processes

Drive the local and inform the global design and execution of high-quality HEOR programs and studies

Oversee and represent local HEOR evidence requirements and gaps

Partner with cross-functional and global teams to develop the communication materials for HEOR data, including value dossiers and other payer relevant communication content

Develop and deliver data and data visualization as part of the omnichannel engagement of institutional customers

Direct external research vendors and consultants to deliver results

Manage HEOR budget and deliverables

Localization/ de novo generation of HEOR Studies/ Models

Generate robust Real World Evidence (RWE) and economic modelling strategies that support successful benefit assessments, vaccine recommendation, pricing and patient access at country level

Oversee and drive the delivery of HTA reimbursement submission for Australia and New Zealand in conjunction with the Market Access Director.

Local adaptation of Value Dossiers and Tender Dossiers

Local HEOR strategies and plans for Moderna's products

Local HEOR input into strategic planning processes and decision gates

HEOR content for the omnichannel execution

HEOR publication plans and HEOR publications for submission to scientific congresses and peer-reviewed journals

Partnering effectively with global support functions and other countries to execute on core deliverables

Additional duties as may be assigned from time to time

Here's What You'll Need (Minimum Qualifications)

Ph.D., Sc.D. or Dr.P.H.; advanced degree in life sciences

Or Clinical degree (e.g., in medicine, pharmacy, nursing) and a masters degree in a related discipline (as noted above), plus five years practical experience

Here's What You'll Bring to the Table (Preferred Qualifications)

Minimum 7 years of experience in the bio/pharmaceutical/ and/or vaccines environment.

Minimum 5 years of experience in HEOR function

A good understanding of the local healthcare systems and reimbursement processes, and public policy decisions-making. Experience with NITAG/ HTA [i.e. ATAGI, PBAC and PHARMAC] benefit assessment process and requirements.

Knowledge and understanding across public healthcare payers, private sectors incl health insurance, pharmacy banner groups and medical groups services large organizations)

Experience in developing payer/ public health decision maker -relevant evidence, including real-world evidence

Experience in developing economic models

Experience in developing value dossiers, tender dossiers and dossiers supporting vaccine recommendations

Ambition to excel, with the drive, energy, and purpose to want to facilitate access of vaccines to drive growth and create population impact.

Strong knowledge of evidence-based medicine standards, HEOR research best practices, patient reported outcomes, data and analytics methods

Proven ability to develop external networks

Strong oral and written communication skills to influence and effectively engage internal and external audiences including data visualization

Strong sense of priorities and abl