Associate Director – Health Economics & Outcomes Research, Organ Health

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the development, validation, and implementation of health economic models, such as budget impact, cost-effectiveness, cost-utility, cost-consequence, ROI, decision-tree, Markov/state-transition, and partitioned-survival models.

• Create scenario and sensitivity analyses that assess the clinical and economic value of precision diagnostics.

• Incorporate HEOR goals into upcoming clinical studies, which include healthcare resource utilization, economic endpoints, patient-reported outcomes, quality-of-life indicators, cost-data collection, and strategies for real-world evidence.

• Evaluate clinical trial, observational, and real-world data sets that encompass resource utilization, cost of care, treatment pathways, diagnostic usage, clinical utility, comparative effectiveness, patient outcomes, survival rates, budget impact, and quality-adjusted life years.

• Direct the HEOR publication strategy and produce manuscripts, abstracts, posters, oral presentations, white papers, and technical reports.

• Manage publication strategies in collaboration with investigators, key opinion leaders, academic partners, and external research collaborators.

• Convert HEOR evidence into payer value propositions, budget impact summaries, value dossiers, reimbursement materials, health economic briefs, value calculators, and economic tools.

• Create and modify health economic evidence and payer models for both U.S. and international markets.

• Assist with reimbursement submissions and evidence strategies in compliance with HTA and payer requirements.

• Work collaboratively across functions including Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Biostatistics, Market Access, Commercial, Marketing, Regulatory, and Business Development.

• Partner with external consultants, academic researchers, KOLs, and research partners.

⛳️ Requirements

• An advanced degree (PhD, PharmD, MD, DrPH, or Master's degree) in Health Economics, Outcomes Research, Epidemiology, Public Health, Biostatistics, Pharmacy, Health Services Research, or a relevant field.

• 5–10+ years of HEOR experience in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, medical devices, consulting, academia, or a similar healthcare setting.

• Proven experience in developing and applying health economic models and conducting outcomes research utilizing clinical trial and/or real-world datasets.

• Background in supporting payer evidence generation, reimbursement strategy, value dossiers, market access initiatives, and scientific publications.

• Experience with precision medicine, molecular diagnostics, companion diagnostics, ctDNA, molecular residual disease (MRD), donor-derived cell-free DNA (dd-cfDNA), next-generation sequencing, biomarker-guided treatment strategies, or Organ Health diagnostics is highly preferred.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, TreeAge Pro, R, SAS, STATA, Python, SQL, Tableau/Power BI, and statistical analysis software is desirable.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual performance incentive bonus.

• Long-term equity awards.

• Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision).

• 401(k) with company match.

• Generous paid time off and company holidays.

• Additional wellness and work-life benefits.

• Life and disability insurance plans for eligible employees and their dependents.

• Free testing for employees and their immediate families.

• Fertility care benefits.

• Leave for pregnancy and baby bonding.

• Commuter benefits.

• Employee referral program.