Hms Director/lead

**Location: Barcelona - Spain (3 days working from the office and 2 days working from home)**

Working at AstraZeneca means being seeing the picture and working together to make the impossible a reality. We’re focused on the potential of science to address the unmet needs of patients around the world.

The Global Market and Access Pricing (GMAP) team at AstraZeneca are creating a new Centre of Excellence for HTA Statistics and Modelling Science at our global Barcelona hub to meet the needs of our growing pipeline and the external environment. We have exciting opportunities for experienced health economic modellers and applied HTA methodologists to join our HTA and Modelling Science (HMS) team at either a Lead or Director level.

GMAP covers a diverse range of therapeutic areas including Cardiovascular, Renal & Metabolism, Respiratory & Immunology, and Vaccines & Immune Therapies. As part of a multi-disciplinary group, including HTA statisticians, payer evidence experts and market access specialists, you will be helping us to shape the payer environment, creating and delivering high quality health economic models to help us unlock the potential of our life-changing medicines for patients around the world.

**What you’ll do**

In this role, you will lead the development of high-quality health economic models, that meet the requirements and expectations of HTA agencies and policy decision-makers to support patient access to our innovative medicines. With the growing use of HTA, including the upcoming Joint Clinical Assessment in Europe, you will play an important role in shaping what we do and how we do it. By being at the forefront of methodology and innovation in the field, you will help us position the Centre of Excellence for HTA Statistics and Modelling Science as a collaborative, reputable, and trusted expert group among HTA, policy and academic stakeholders.

Development of our people is very important to us. As part of our new Centre of Excellence, there will be opportunities to learn and further develop skills, as well as spread your knowledge and increase the overall capabilities in the organisation.

For our **Lead**role, you should have:

- Expert knowledge and ability to develop end-to-end decision-analytic models, such as cost-effectiveness and budget impact models fit for submission to reimbursement agencies.
- Significant experience modelling in multiple packages (e.g., Excel and creation of VBA codes or R), while keeping at abreast with cutting edge modeling approaches
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to present to various audiences and develop technical documents like model protocols or model reports and engage with HTA bodies to address model-related queries.
- Excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills to be able to integrate in a Global cross-functional matrix to deliver objectives and ensure alignment with relevant internal and external stakeholders.
- Substantial experience interpreting clinical data and collaborating with statisticians to deliver trial analyses required to parameterise health economic models.
- Degree in relevant field such as quantitative social sciences (e.g. economics, health economics, health services research), mathematical sciences (e.g. mathematics, statistics, operations research, engineering) or equivalent quantitative skill demonstration (e.g. through development in the workplace).

For our **Director**role, we require the following in addition to what is listed above:

- Leadership and strategy setting on HTA modelling and simulation (including indirect treatment comparisons, utility analyses, survival analysis, treatment switching, and other advanced analytics used for HTA and wider market access) across different indications.
- Develop global standards, guidelines, best practice, and metrics within the team. Lead quality assurance on the implementation of accepted methods for modelling and full validation of health economic models prior to submissions to HTA bodies or scientific journals.
- Develop and maintain an external network of experts and participate as an expert in collaborations to drive new and innovative HTA methods.

**Why AstraZeneca?**
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