Health Economics Lead, Canada

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.

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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