Career Opportunities: Value Evidence and Outcomes Liaison - Florida & South Carolina (18361)

Compensation Data

This position offers a base salary typically between $183,000 and $280,000.  The position may be eligible for a role specific variable or performance based bonus and or other compensation elements.  For an overview of our benefits please click here. 

Description

The primary mission of the U.S. Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) Department is to improve patient outcomes by developing and communicating the value of Boehringer Ingelheim's (BI) products. To support this mission, the Value Evidence and Outcomes Liaison is responsible for communicating and implementing clinical, economic, and humanistic value evidence for BI products to Health Plans. These activities are to be conducted in alignment with the Account Teams, and within company guidelines, policies, and directives. As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development, and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies' success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in several ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, diversity and inclusion, mobility, networking, and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Communicates and implements value evidence for our products.
• Leads implementation of health economics, outcomes and disease management resources and initiatives with customers and accounts to act based on evidence provided.
• Accountable for delivering and/or coordinating presentation of all value evidence to support assigned accounts.
• Responsible for conveying proactive and reactive health outcome-based information for products in the BI portfolio (across therapeutic areas) to executive decision-makers, external scientific experts, and relevant business influencer's to inform access and reimbursement decisions.
• Develops account specific HEOR strategies to ensure effective utilization of HEOR information, services, and tools.
• Collaborates with the Account Team to ensure all account team plans incorporate the account-specific HEOR strategy to deliver value messages uniformly across all assigned customer-facing groups and therapeutic areas.
• Serves as primary point of contact on the account team accountable to delivering clinical, economic, and humanistic value evidence of BI products.
• Establishes strong cross-functional teamwork with Account Team and other headquarter teams to effectively meet customer needs through a coordinated account-based approach and to specifically support areas of health outcomes, real-world evidence (RWE), and scientific collaborations within those accounts.
• Establishes and maintains scientific relationships with customer stakeholders, including senior leaders and executives (C-suite).
• Collaborates with other Value Evidence Liaisons (regional, national, quality, policy, government) as necessary to address customer needs related to population health management and triple aim.
• Executes and documents customer interactions in the appropriate systems and tools (i.e., Veeva CRM) in accordance with compliance guidelines.
• Communicates account and project activities as well as provides status updates routinely to key internal stakeholders.
• Provides timely clinical, economic, and scientific product updates proactively or in response to unsolicited requests per standard operating procedure (including Dossier) to formulary decision makers or similar entities.
• Provides insights from external customers to home office based HEOR and Medical teams to ensure strategies and tactics are robust in filling key evidence gaps from a payor perspective.
• Establishes and maintains research and other collaborations with key external payor decision makers and influencers as needed.

Requirements

• PhD in relevant discipline

OR

• Doctoral degree in a clinical discipline (medicine, pharmacy, nursing)

OR

• Master's in Public Health and formal training in HEOR (master's degree or fellowship)

OR

• Seven (7) years relevant experience with a doctoral degree OR nine (9+) years of relevant experience with a Master/Clinical Degree or other degree certification of practical experience in conducting HEOR studies. Pre and post doc experience considered.
• Minimum of five (5+) years experience (pre- and post-doc experience included) in managed markets, health economics, outcomes research and population health management with demonstration of significant contribution in all disciplines.
• Pharmaceutical industry experience preferred.
• Hands-on HEOR experience in study design and execution.
• Knowledgeable about Health Outcomes Research methods (experimental and observational study designs, and state of the art modeling methods.
• Ability to conduct independent research in health economics and outcomes research and publish or present the results preferred.
• Deep understanding of US healthcare industry trends, and in-depth knowledge of the US healthcare delivery system, including payors and organized providers with the ability to apply this understanding in support of field-based activities.
• Knowledgeable about how value evidence is used by population-based decision makers to inform adoption and implementation of decisions.
• Ability to translate evidence into decisions and actions that aligns to customer needs.
• Knowledge of current trends in data science in healthcare (preferred).
• Recognition by peers for their expertise in HEOR (preferred).
• Senior level influence and credibility.
• Ability to engage senior executives both in BI and in external organizations.
• Strong business acumen with proven ability to apply health outcomes programs or research findings to impact market access decisions.
• Ability to influence without authority.
• Ability to effectively communicate clinical, economic concepts and evidence-based concepts.
• Ability to master the clinical and health economic evidence and able to effectively communicate complex material to a wide variety of audiences.
• Knowledgeable about how to communicate complex data in ways that customers understand, including novel data visualization techniques.
• Ability to effectively work alongside commercial and other functions to develop robust account plans which include RWE/HEOR projects based on identified opportunities within selected accounts.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to discuss healthcare delivery processes and inter-relationships between different customer-types in the healthcare marketplace.
• Thorough understanding of FDMA 114, 21st Century Cures, new draft FDA Guidance on Payor Communication and Unapproved Uses, as well as their implications for the development and dissemination of healthcare economic information to the payer audience (preferred).
• Functional in all Microsoft Office platform components.
• Ability to travel a minimum of 50% of the time.
• Experience operating in a complex, ever-changing environment.
• Experience working within an account team with specific duties to HEOR and complex models.
• Knowledge of key laws and regulations governing BIPI customer communications as well as policies and procedures relevant to BIPI HEOR activities.
• Knowledge of industry best practices related to HEOR activities.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction.
• Must be willing to take a drug test and post-offer physical (if required).
• Must be 18 years of age or older.