Real World Evidence and Health Outcomes Director

Responsibilities

• Plan, design and execute multiple studies for a given asset and manage timelines, deliverables, and budget.
• Assure quality of deliverables, including review and sign off project specifications, protocols, data analysis plans, final study reports, abstracts, posters and manuscripts, adherence to SOPs.
• Identify resources, references and analyses to inform scientific design and advise internal experts (clinical, commercial/market access) and external experts as needed in support of the asset team.
• Translate identified needs for evidence into study concepts in alignment with strategic objectives and vision for the asset, e.g. development of study protocols and proposing innovative and cost-effective ways of developing and executing studies.
• Develop and maintain a good working knowledge of real-world data resources, existing partnerships and public initiatives and become the point person for select sources to advise on their suitability to address given research questions.
• Develop a deep understanding of customers’ needs, including HTA requirements, as well as the of acceptance of RWE or economic evidence and impact to the decision making of different customers (reimbursement, medical societies, physicians).
• Collaborate with internal teams and participate in best practice sharing sessions across NIS organization.
• Build strong working relationships with stakeholder groups across medical, market access, R&D and commercial to ensure strategic alignment and optimal cross-functional collaboration and communication.
• Ensure key stakeholders including TA aligned business leaders are regularly updated on plans through periodic reporting.
• Develop excellent working relations with external thought leaders to ensure appropriate methods and research agendas are applied, in accordance with GSK policies.

  Qualifications

  • MSc, or equivalent degree level in health outcomes, patient reported outcomes, health economics, epidemiology, pharmacy, health or life sciences
  • 3 + years’ experience working in pharmaceutical industry, preferably in a multi-national company.
  • Experience planning and delivering on individual projects, managing budgets and working within a matrix setting.
  • Experience with a variety of study designs, i.e., RWE studies including prospective, cross-sectional and retrospective cohort studies.
  • Experience in delivering robust body and payer evidences & experience in results dissemination and experts engagement.
  • Experience in the diversity and complexity of healthcare markets, health technology assessment agencies, and reimbursement decision making globally, in region and in local markets.
  • Experience with how health economics, health outcomes, comparative effectiveness research, PRO research and the use of PRO instruments can be applied at local decision-making levels, including support of clinical practice.
  • Experience communicating technical and complex concepts and results effectively to various audiences to impact decision-making.