Director, Health Economics – Outcomes Research

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

📋 Description

• Establish and spearhead Immunic's HEOR capabilities within the Medical Affairs team.

• Create and uphold a prioritized, multi-year HEOR and value-evidence strategy for vidofludimus calcium.

• Lead assessments to identify evidence gaps and convert them into research questions, study concepts, investment recommendations, and decision points.

• Collaborate on Immunic's real-world evidence strategy, which includes MS registry engagement, commercial real-world data sources, and data-use agreements.

• Prioritize RWE research questions and represent HEOR in registry consortia and real-world data networks.

• Design and supervise HEOR and outcomes research, covering burden-of-illness, epidemiology, treatment patterns, patient-reported outcomes/quality of life, and economic modeling studies.

• Develop budget-impact and cost-effectiveness models for discussions with payers, reimbursement bodies, and HTAs.

• Integrate HEOR priorities into evidence-generation and publication strategies.

• Ensure that studies and analyses are conducted rigorously, documented comprehensively, and transparently address assumptions, limitations, and uncertainties.

• Collaborate with clinical, biostatistics, regulatory, medical affairs, and other teams on outcomes, endpoints, patient-reported measures, and opportunities for evidence generation.

• Provide perspectives from payers, HTAs, patients, and healthcare systems during protocol development, analysis planning, and data interpretation.

• Work with Market Access on payer and HTA evidence requirements, value dossiers, evidence summaries, and related models.

• Represent HEOR in cross-functional program and launch readiness forums.

• Cultivate relationships with external HEOR experts, academic collaborators, research networks, payers, HTA experts, and thought leaders in MS.

• Transform external insights into HEOR hypotheses and research priorities.

• Convey complex economic and outcomes concepts to audiences with varying levels of technical proficiency.

• Establish governance, planning, and decision-making processes for HEOR.

• Select and manage external research partners while retaining internal ownership of strategy, quality, and deliverables.

• Develop and oversee the HEOR budget and resourcing model.

• Set measures for progress and impact regarding the HEOR function.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of eight years of progressive experience in HEOR, outcomes research, RWE, or related evidence-generation fields within the biopharmaceutical industry, or six years with a PhD, PharmD, or MD.

• Proven experience in developing or leading an integrated HEOR/value-evidence strategy.

• Experience in supporting late-stage development, launch readiness, or lifecycle evidence generation.

• An advanced degree in health economics, outcomes research, epidemiology, health services research, public health, pharmacy, medicine, or a related quantitative or clinical discipline is preferred.

• Strong understanding of HEOR research methodologies.

• Hands-on experience in designing, critically evaluating, or overseeing economic models and evidence-generation studies.

• Familiarity with registry, claims, or EHR-based real-world evidence research.

• Working knowledge of the US payer landscape.

• Understanding of global HTA evidence requirements.

• Experience in directing external research partners and managing scope, budget, timelines, scientific quality, and deliverables.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to thrive in a smaller, pre-commercial biotech environment with evolving priorities.

• Demonstrated capability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and drive decisions without formal authority.

• Must have authorization to work in the US.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity

• Bonus

• Remote work arrangement