Vaccines Value Evidence Lead Adult Immunization and Late Development

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Site Name: Belgium-Wavre, GSK House, Upper Providence

Posted Date: Jul 20 2023

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We’re seeking a passionate and experienced Value Evidence Director to join our team at GSK.

Summary Description

The role of Value Evidence Director is essential to ensuring that vaccines that GSK brings to market are supported by scientifically credible, high quality, evidence aligned with the needs of decision makers responsible for granting access / reimbursement. As important Value Evidence Department Team member you will be accountable to lead the global value evidence strategy and delivery for vaccines for selected strategic priorities/ streams within the Essential portfolio throughout the lifecycle of the assets in alignment with the Value Evidence [VE] accountabilities around the GSK integrated asset operating model, interacting with wide range of internal and external stakeholders, to inform relevant vaccine recommendation and reimbursement.

Your responsibilities:

• Lead and ensure alignment across the matrix organization for defined for defined strategic priorities/ streams within the Value Evidence Team for the Adult Immunisation Portfolio and lead team member in selected late development vaccine candidates, drawn from VEO and other platforms (R&D as well as Commercial) to deliver the Value Evidence Generation strategic options, Value Evidence Plans and execution which fall under relevant integrated evidence plans:
• Partner within the Value Evidence and Outcomes (VEO) organization with partners such as VEO Early, Real World Analytics teams to ensure the operational delivery of Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs), Real World Evidence (RWE), Patient Focused Development and VEO Operations as well as relevant Therapeutic Areas aligned with the Target Vaccine Profile expectations and the lifecycle of the relevant asset.
• Partner with relevant asset teams in the remit of the adult immunisation stream, as well as the related Value Evidence peers to ensure integrated approach and successful implementation and maximization for synergies and efficiency in study delivery.
• Partner with a complex set of global, regional, and local internal stakeholders including Vaccine Development Leads, Global Vaccine Commercial Leads, Epidemiology and Clinical Scientists, global and local Medical Affairs, local Market Access, regional and key LOC contributors etc. and ensure appropriate representation at project governance level .
• Support the Value Evidence Portfolio Lead in the external dialogue on the Adult Immunisation related external initiatives with co-leading several initiatives. Build deep strategic understanding of value evidence requirements for defined strategic priorities / streams (such as key assets in the remit of the adult immunisation initiative), relevant for priority markets, with recommendation and reimbursement bodies including seeking formal scientific advice to National Immunization Technical Advisory Committees (NITAGs) and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) bodies and across Industry Initiatives.
  
  

• Responsible for the design and delivery of pragmatic, prioritised health outcomes strategies and studies for development and/or marketed compounds, including health economic studies, evidence syntheses, patient reported outcome development and implementation, burden of disease and real-world effectiveness studies, run as part of or in parallel to development from Discovery through life cycle management.
• Lead scientific robust value evidence studies in collaboration with direct report and broader VEO organization (e.g., cost-of-illness, resource utilization, utility and quality of life assessments, Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs), Real World Evidence (RWE), economic and public health impact modelling, indirect study comparisons, etc) ensuring scientific robustness and compliance with necessary regulations for quality and disclosure.
• Lead annual budget forecasting and activity prioritization for defined streams while effectively managing projects and budgets for Human Subject Research (HSR) and non-HSR activities.
• Lead, develop and support potential direct report(s)
• Lead potential vendors, agency workers allocated to the stream in ensuring successful implementation of respective Value Evidence Plans aligned to the overall Neisseria portfolio strategy.
• Integrate excellent understanding of the evolving global NITAG, Health Technology Assessment, policy decision maker and payer environment, including recommendation, reimbursement, pricing, and access.
  
  

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

• Masters level or equivalent experience in health outcomes or relevant areas of specialisation
• Specific training / meaningful experience in at least 2 areas (health policy, reimbursement / access, health economics, modelling, patient reported outcomes, psychometrics, clinical trial design, observational research, epidemiology, statistics).
  
  

Job-Related Experience:

• At least 5 years’ experience in a health economist, market access or related function (consulting, pharmaceutical industry, academics), preferably including above country level experience
• Educational background with technical expertise consistent with scientific project planning, implementation, and delivery of evidence.
• Knowledge of global reimbursement processes / evidence requirements to inform access decisions. Experience of reimbursement / HTA submissions
• Proficient in managing multiple projects, budgets, and effectively navigate in matrix organisation interactions (internal / external consistent with each research project or activity).
• Experience in supervising team members, delegating tasks as well as providing supervision and development tailored to their capabilities and ambitions.
• Effective communicator (oral/written) who can translate specific research projects and outcomes, related complex material in presentations and discussions in a straightforward manner
• Good to excellent in computer skills: excel, word, PowerPoint; experience in at least one modelling software and agility to further learn as relevant (for example Visual Basic, R)
• Line management experience
• Authored publication
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Launch or post marketing, market access experience in pharmaceutical or life science industry or related field
• Experience in infectious diseases, sexually transmitted diseases and/or vaccine health economics and outcomes research is considered as an asset
• PhD in a relevant discipline
• This is a job description to aide in the job posting but does not include all job evaluation details.
  
  

If you have a disability and require assistance during the course of the selection process, you will have the opportunity to let us know what specific assistance you require in order to make suitable arrangements.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

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