Director, Market Access and Health Economics

Pharmaceutical Leader with an entrepreneurial culture is looking for a Director, Market Access and Health Ecomomics. The position is Montreal based and requires travelling within Canada and Europe (25%).

Main responsibilties:

• Manage head office Market Access, Health Economics. Oversee Market Access activities, including development of strategies and submissions to support gaining / maintaining reimbursement for new and existing  products with public and private payer drug plans.

• Oversee pricing and PMPRB policy and strategy development. Ensure compliance with PMPRB regulations / guidelines as well as internal SOPs.

• Liaise with field MA/GA team to support head office team in providing policy makers with customized and relevant clinical and HEOR information.

• Assess ongoing national health policy challenges and opportunities as environmental dynamics change

• Liaise with Global HEOR and WE&C Market Access to identify opportunities for collaboration in development of new product/new indication ‘core’ value propositions and adapting Global HEOR initiatives for Canada.

• 8  years of relevant experience

• In-depth knowledge of Canadian health care system, including role of CADTH / CDR / PMPRB, private and provincial government drug approval processes

• Solid understanding of the new Pan Canadian Purchasing Alliance (PCPA) process and ideally negotiating experience
• Bachelor degree in Science, Commerce
• Pharmacy degree, MBA or Masters of Science is an asset
• Knowledge of key databases: PharmaStat, RxDynamics, IMS/Brogan, clinical trial databases
• Knowledge of modeling (e.g. TreeAge) and statistics
• Bilingual (French & English)

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