Modeling Lead

About the role

Join the team transforming care for people with immune challenges, rare diseases, cancers, and neurological conditions. In Specialty Care, you'll help deliver breakthrough treatments that bring hope to patients with some of the highest unmet needs.

Main Responsibilities

• Provide visionary and creative leadership for Global HEVA Economic Modeling group concerning Sanofi developmental and in-line product portfolio
• Ensure that the development of economic models (Cost-Effectiveness and Budget Impact) are done in a timely manner and to high standards of quality and rigor
• Advance the use of integrated quantitative approaches, focusing on economic, disease, and predictive modeling and simulation in partnership with other internal groups and external organizations
• Lead early economic modeling for strategic input to development design and pricing strategy
• Keep abreast of trends in Modeling research and HTA/Payers environment
• Maintain strong relationships with cross-functional teams as well as external vendors to ensure robust economic evidence support pricing and market access decisions
• Communicate complex health economics concepts into messages actionable for business-critical decision to cross-functional teams with clarity and impact

Qualifications & Experience

• Masters Degree in Statistics and/or Health economics
• Additional PhD in Economics, Health Economics, (Pharmaco)epidemiology, or related field is a plus
• Proven track (at least 5 years) record in HEOR disciplines incl. data analyses, health economic methodology and modeling, medical and statistical scientific methodology, scientific publication record, decision modeling, input to clinical trials /observational studies
• Experience in design and successful execution of state-of-the-art modeling techniques (incl. mathematical modeling)
• Documented experience having initiated and delivered health economic models (from cost-effectiveness to budget impact models) and tools to support country reimbursement and access in Europe, US and other Asian markets (Australia, Taiwan, Japan etc.)
• Documented experience in early modeling for internal decision-making supporting portfolio strategy
• Experience working across several therapeutic areas, including rare disease

Skills & Competencies

• English fluent, both written and oral
• Clear understanding of the use of models within different payer contexts
• Strong familiarity with methods acceptable to payers
• Knowledge of data analyses and health economic methodology
• Understanding of medical and statistical scientific methodology
• Understanding of health utility assessment
• Out-of-the-box thinking allowing conceptualization of models with heterogeneous and scarce evidence
• Excellent organizational and communication skills, both written and oral, with attention to detail
• Ability to communicate technical details to non-expert audiences
• Ability to communicate effectively the methods and results of complex analyses to a range of audiences, both orally and in writing with peers, senior managers and internal customer
• Understanding of research principles and familiarity with key aspects of the literature
• Strong customer focus & team spirit
• Strong analytical/ statistical skills/ synthesis of quantitative data are essential
• Project management experience