Senior Consultant HTA for the UK Market - Multiple Locations - Centurion at IQVIA

Role Overview

• This is a manager role within the IQVIA Global Health Economics and HTA team with a focus on health technology assessment (HTA) and strategic offerings to support our clients with designing an evidence generation and dissemination strategy for their products that meets HTA requirements and optimises the chances for market access.
• The primary focus of this role is on UK HTA, supporting submissions and engagements with agencies such as NICE and the SMC, although there is flexibility to work on other types of products and geographies should the opportunity arise.

The successful candidate will:

• Be involved in shaping and leading the team and offerings, working closely with the wider senior leadership team and centres of excellence across the global network
• Manage business development, from proactively developing client relationships to understanding their strategic goals and milestones, with senior oversight; confirming, managing and maintaining the scope of the project to meet those goals in a timely and efficient manner
• Manage HTA project strategy and direction, with a particular emphasis on UK HTA processes and requirements, with senior oversight; identifying potential challenges to product value, and the development of risk mitigation strategies, as appropriate
• Manage the project delivery team on a range of projects, including dossier development and submission support for UK HTA agencies, early scientific advice, informing and defining HTA strategy and other strategic HTA offerings to support our clients, with senior oversight. There will also be opportunities to contribute to multi-country and global HTA projects
• Involvement in mediating, negotiating and problem solving, within and outside of the immediate project team, with senior oversight
• Train and identify opportunities for more junior members of the team to support their career development as HTA specialists
• Work within and across internal IQVIA teams, including technical consultants responsible for studies generating HTA evidence and complementary functions such as Market Access, Patient-Centered Solutions, HTA Accelerator Solutions, database studies and local teams across the global network
• Liaise with clients who will include pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical devices companies with global and regional headquarters, and occasionally their affiliate teams
• Support and/or lead thought leadership for HTA topics, such as preparing conference abstracts and posters, supporting development of white papers and peer-reviewed publications on HTA and guiding interns working with the team on HTA-focused thesis topics
• Provide line management, depending on interests
• The demand for IQVIA's HTA offerings has seen dramatic increases over the past two years and will continue to expand in response to evolving HTA processes globally, including the growing importance of UK HTA. The role of the Senior Consultant is a management role within the IQVIA Global Health Economics and HTA team and is expected to play an important role in shaping the team's UK HTA offerings. There will also be opportunities to expand your portfolio into other areas if desired.
• The role is based in either Spain, Greece, Portugal or South Arica, with flexibility regarding frequency of office and home working. Please refer to our diversity and inclusion statement for further information.

The Successful Candidate

• We are looking for a candidate with a good mix of academic and professional experience, domain experience, and interpersonal skills. An ideal candidate has experience with UK HTA submissions and preparing for and supporting early HTA scientific advice, as well as proven success in navigating HTA processes in a strategic way to optimise a product's access to markets and reimbursement. Experience with multi-country HTA submissions is also highly desirable.
• The ideal candidate will also have a good understanding of the structure typical of our clients from the pharmaceutical industry and how to successfully navigate this structure to achieve client's aims.
• The list below should be viewed as a guide rather than a checklist.

Qualifications and Desired Experience

• Postgraduate degree level education or higher from a relevant discipline (such as, but not limited to, HTA, health economics, health policy, medicine, pharmacy, epidemiology, public health) AND at least 4 years of relevant work experience (such as, but not limited to, pharmaceutical sector, consulting, academia) with preparing evidence submissions aligned to the HTA processes and requirements within the UK and/or Europe as well as involvement in the appraisal and negotiation processes, where relevant
• Demonstrable commercial awareness and thorough understanding of the pharmaceutical industry, with an existing network of HEOR contacts highly desirable
• Project management experience
• Previous experience in a consultancy environment is highly desirable
• Commercial acumen and proven consultancy skills is highly desirable
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with fluency in English – applications should be sent in English
• Quantitative skills, including econometrics and good knowledge of statistical software packages (e.g., STATA, R) is desirable but not essential