Health Economics Consultant, Modelling

Job Purposes

Responsibilities

Key Accountabilities

• Coordinate day-to-day activities related to country adaptations in the local regional markets.
• In alignment with internal Modelling leads, coordinate execution of health economics models for various markets.
• Participate in discussions regarding the planning of these adaptations and plan for upcoming adaptations.
• Support the development of project plans for the smooth flow of the adaptations.
• Support coordination and completion of model request forms and development of all HECON model documents, including but not limited to input sheets.
• Support administrative tasks associated with health economics modeling in agreement with the client.
• Ensures quality of health economic model adaptations. Reviews and validates input sheets, and performs quality checks of local adaptations conducted by local suppliers in markets that prefer to use a qualified local supplier or internal Parexel/client staff for model adaptation.
• Reviews model adaptations report for local submissions and training purposes.
• Supports training of adapted health economic models for local and regional Operational Research/Market Access teams.
• Write, refine, review, and critique sections of reports, journal manuscripts, and other deliverables for client or external delivery.
• Act as primary point of contact and Project Lead, providing guidance and instruction to junior team members while being supported by the Project Director (senior team member).
  

Parexel-Related Responsibilities

• Professional conduct at all working levels within a client organization and Parexel.
• Complete basic job-related responsibilities, including timesheets, expense reports, maintenance of CV, project deliverable archiving, etc.
  

Experience And Skills

• Demonstrated relevant experience in health economics modeling and model adaptations for at least 3 years – this is a must.
• Able to work across several products/indications in oncology, vaccines, and other global pharma products.
• Experienced and knowledgeable in model adaptation to review Markov, partition-survival models, discrete-event simulation, etc.
• Well-versed in reviewing models in different software, e.g., MS Excel, VBA, R (including Shiny), etc.
• A high degree of written accuracy and attention to detail
• Good communication skills, both oral and in writing, especially in the relaying of technical information
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills with the ability to interact with individuals from a variety of disciplines.
• Self-motivation, enthusiasm, ambition, and flexibility
• Fluent English (additional languages are appreciated)
  

Education

• Minimum Master's degree, in Health Economics, Biostatistics, Health Services Research, Decision Sciences, Actuarial Sciences, or a closely related, quantitative field.