Astellas Canada – Health Economics Lead
At Astellas, we strive to become a cutting-edge, value-driven life science
innovator. This means working at the forefront of healthcare change to turn
innovative science into VALUE for patients.
What sets us apart is our focus on patients, our pioneering innovation, our
collaborative culture, and the passion of our talented people.
Making a positive impact on patients’ lives is the purpose behind everything we
do. At Astellas, we are relentless in our pursuit of scientific progress and in
tackling unmet medical needs, demonstrated by our legacy in oncology, overactive
bladder and transplant and our impressive pipeline in women's health, blindness
and regeneration, genetic regulation, immuno-oncology, mitochondria and targeted
protein degradation.
About Us
We are a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan, with a team of
more than 14,000 managing operations in approximately 70 countries around the
world. We are in the Top 30 global biopharma company based on global revenues
and are predicted to be one of the Top 10 Cancer Drug Makers of 2024 by Fierce
Pharma.
In Canada, we are growing to meet the exciting opportunities realized by our
legacy brands and rich pipeline of innovative treatments.
We are looking for candidates who will thrive in our entrepreneurial and
empowering environment where talent and leadership flourish. Do your values
align with our Astellas Way - patient focus, ownership, results, openness, and
integrity? Then we would love to hear from you.
From the first day in role, everyone at Astellas has a responsibility for
creating a brighter future for patients around the world. We nurture exceptional
relationships with our employees to allow them to thrive, foster innovation, and
deliver exceptional business results. We work to create a culture where our
people feel empowered to pursue brave ideas and ambitious outcomes, to have the
confidence to be accountable for a higher standard of performance and embody a
competitive and solutions-oriented mindset.
Our expertise, science and technology make us a pharma company. Our open and
diverse culture is what makes us uniquely Astellas.
Astellas Pharma Canada (APCA) is currently searching for a Health Economics
Lead.
Description:
The main purpose of this role is co-creation, coordination and follow-up to full
localisation of health economic models in support of pricing and reimbursement
submissions to maximize product value and optimize patient access. This may also
include, when appropriate, the new model development if the global model is not
available or not applicable for localisation.
A key responsibility is to develop Health Economic (HE) strategies and tactics
that are evidence based, scientifically and technically valid, medically
relevant and are of clinical, humanistic, and economical importance. These
tactics will address the needs of local HTA, payers, patients, health care
providers, policy makers and regulators in line with the affiliate value
strategy plans and brand plans.
Additional expectations are related to effective monitoring of the constantly
changing healthcare and economic landscape to anticipate and address potential
impact on the business, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and establish
and maintain relationships with key external stakeholders, as per affiliate
value strategy plans.
Essential Job Duties:
- Contribute pro-actively to co-create, formulate, consolidate, and implement
Affiliate HE strategies and perspectives for integration within the affiliate
value strategy plans and brand plans
- Continuously strengthen in depth knowledge of Astellas products/disease
states for assigned products
- Responsible for successful execution of all HE activities and deliverables
for assigned products within affiliate and to ensure these are delivered with
high quality and within timelines and budget
- Ensure effective support to affiliate brand team(s) to ensure timely
communication, strong collaboration, transparency and full understanding of
HE strategy and tactics, as part of affiliate value strategy plan(s).
- Support Affiliate HE business objectives and budgetary plans with a 3–5-year
perspective through HE synthesis, dissemination, communication and refinement
- Ensure strong working relationship with market access and local brand teams,
especially related to timely execution on RWE needs in support of achieving
optimal pricing and reimbursement conditions for our brands
- Lead effective collaborations with other relevant internal stakeholders,
understanding brand needs and developing and implementing strategies that
address these needs at the affiliate level
- Ensure close and effective collaboration with Astellas Health Economics
Centre of Excellence, exchange of relevant information as well as supporting
cross country, payer archetype projects; identify collaborative
opportunities, ensure optimal alignment, leverage resources, and support
business priorities and patient access
- Actively monitor the changing healthcare landscape to identify emerging
country HE trends, emerging new methodologies and best practices to inform HE
strategies, represent Astellas / Affiliate at external HE conferences and
meetings
- Support preparation and coordination for HTA/payer early scientific advice
(if applicable), preparations for mock negotiations, and objection handling
in Affiliate
- Keeping abreast of industry ‘best practice’ and adopt a ‘continuous
improvement’ approach within Astellas to establish a culture of compliance.
Appropriately challenge and proactively raise concerns in a timely manner
with the relevant manager(s) including within the Healthcare Compliance team
and/or to the Ethics Helpline.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in health economics, economics, pharmacy, life sciences,
medicine or epidemiology
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in health economics within the pharmaceutical
industry and / or related HE consultancies, scientific or government
institutions
- Good working knowledge of market access
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent presentation and organizational skills
- Demonstrated strategic thinking, problem solving and decision-making skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Post-graduate qualification (PhD, PharmD, MD) strongly preferred.
- Outcome research knowledge and experience is highly desirable.
- Bilingual English/French
Working Environment
- At Astellas we recognize the importance of work/life balance, and we are
proud to offer a hybrid working solution allowing time to connect with
colleagues at the office with the flexibility to also work from home. We
believe this will optimize the most productive work environment for all
employees to succeed and deliver. Hybrid work from certain locations may be
permitted in accordance with Astellas’ Responsible Flexibility Guidelines.
- Given the nature of the role there will need to be less than moderate amount
of travel
Additional Information
Astellas Pharma Canada welcomes and encourages applications from people with
disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part
in all aspects of the hiring process.
No telephone inquiries, in-person applications, or agencies please. While we
appreciate all applications, only candidates under consideration will be
contacted.
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