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A Day in the Life
Would you love to develop appropriate health economic tools, and direct both in-house and outsourced execution of plans of key business importance? Are you ready to work as a partner to Medtronic’s Structural Heart and Aortic business in developing clinical and economic evidence, health economic evaluations, value propositions, and customer-facing economic tools? Are you open to forge close, cross-functional working relationships with marketing, clinical affairs, government affairs, pricing and other functions across the business? Then we are looking for you!As a Senior Health Economics, Policy and Reimbursement (HEPR) Specialist, you will work as a partner to Medtronic’s Structural Heart and Aortic business in developing clinical and economic evidence, health economic evaluations, value propositions, and customer-facing economic tools. You will also interface with healthcare stakeholders such as health technology assessment (HTA) agencies, payers, policymakers, and governments to enable patient access by securing funding/reimbursement for Medtronic’s Structural Heart & Aortic (SH&A) technologies across the EMEA region, in partnership with our key stakeholders across functions and regions.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
- Optimize Health Technology Assessments (HTA), Reimbursement applications, Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG) funding mechanisms, Value Based HealthCare (VBHC) programs including risk sharing contracts, and Hospital- or Payer-level business cases throughout a specialist knowledge of health economic and outcomes research (HEOR) methodologies
- Provide input to evidence development plans including input to clinical study design, including measurement of healthcare utilization and patient reported outcomes / quality of life, and analysis of real-world healthcare administrative datasets or registries
- Execute health economic projects including cost-effectiveness, cost-utility, cost-of-illness and budget impact analyses to support market access strategies
- Demonstrate health economic value of our products and deliver regional value dossiers and tools for effective and timely use in EMEA countries
- Become an internal expert on reimbursement of SH&A products and identify risks and opportunities for business planning processes
- Represent Reimbursement and Health Economics at external meetings, analyze and communicate clinical & economic evidence to target audiences within the region, including publication of research findings
- Provide therapy specific and general reimbursement/HE education and training to key internal and external audiences within region
Required knowledge and experience
- 3 - 5 years’ experience in health economics, outcomes research or medical device technology assessment, with a track record of successful reimbursement and funding applications in the health care environment
- Postgraduate degree (MS, MPH, MPP, MBA, PhD or MD) in Economics, Health Economics, Life Sciences, Health Policy or related field
- Fluency in English and availability to travel for a 20% of working time
- Good knowledge of the application, development and review of health economic models
- Experience developing value propositions
- Good knowledge of reimbursement systems in Europe
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, ability to work across cultures, strong project management skills, results orientation, quality orientation
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
About Medtronic
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
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