Now Hiring - Edwards Lifesciences - Manufacturing Director, Market Access & Reimbursement Strategy - TMTT in Irvine, CA

Full description of the position

Primary Responsibilities:
Collaborate with the Regulatory, R&D, Clinical Affairs, Medical Affairs and Marketing and other functional teams to assess global trends in market access, and product market access strategies.
Collaborate with internal business partners to establish priorities, strategies, and processes to create compelling economic value propositions for TMTT therapies.
Represent GHER function in cross functional teams such as product development or clinical trial teams and ensures market access needs and perspectives across geographies are represented.

Collaborate closely with regional and country Market Access leads to deliver the global value and market access strategy for TMTT. Partner closely to support their efforts to including health technology assessment (HTA), reimbursement or pricing submissions, payer and policy maker engagements, and other market access initiatives.
Partner with regional and local market access leads to gather and synthesize insights from Payers, HCPs, Policymakers experts; stays current with scientific and policy trends and best practices and applies strategic and content expertise to strategy planning.
Proactively monitor trends in global/regional/local trends in reimbursement, HTA, value assessment customer to identify opportunities for protecting and improving market access.

Create robust health technology assessment (HTA) tools to meet the evidentiary standards of regulators, HTA organizations, reimbursement authorities, third-party payers and other organizations that review evidence for access decision making.
Lead rigorous literature reviews of clinical, humanistic, epidemiological, and economic evidence to support market access and value communication objectives.
Collaborate with the Scientific Communications team on publication strategy and ensures that the dissemination of HEOR evidence is timely and has maximum reach and impact.
Accountable for the development and maintenance of product Global Value Dossiers (GVD) & Global Value Stories (GVS) that will be utilized by regional and country market access teams.
Oversee the development of core/global economic models to meet local market reimbursement and HTA submission requirements.
Ensures that early economic models are designed and implemented to inform global market access strategy, including testing pricing hypotheses, prioritizing evidence generation, and planning for HTA in key markets.

Basic Qualifications:
Bachelors degree in a life science, health economics, health policy, healthcare finance or related field required.
The individual must have a minimum of 12 years of experience in health economics and reimbursement and/or medical device market access.

Preferred Qualifications:
Advanced degree (e.g., MBA or MPH or PhD) is highly desirable.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, especially presentation development.
Influence management skills and ability to work effectively in a matrixed organization and between competing organizations.
Experience with reimbursement in countries outside the U.S. and can effectively communicate and incorporate regional requirements in overall strategic plans is required.
Demonstrated success and experience in reimbursement and/or health economics in the support of product strategies.
Exceptional project management skills.
Ability to balance strategic thinking with intricate planning and strong tactical execution.
Strong business acumen, analytical skills and experience working with various internal business partners (especially Sales, Marketing, Clinical, Regulatory, Legal, and Government Affairs staff)
Previous experience in, or strong working knowledge of the medical device industry, especially with functional responsibility in health economics and reimbursement planning and program implementation.
Experience working with external stakeholders such as payers, hospitals, physicians, trade associations, professional and medical organizations to develop mutually beneficial health economics and reimbursement strategies and tactics to support portfolio planning, commercialization, and sales/marketing objectives.
Domestic and international travel up to 25%.

Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families.

For California, the base pay range for this position is $153,000 to $218,000 (highly experienced).

The pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience).

About Edwards Lifesciences

Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader in patient-focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring. Driven by a passion to help patients, the company collaborates with the worlds leading clinicians and researchers to address unmet healthcare needs, working to improve patient outcomes and enhance lives. Headquartered in Irvine, California, Edwards Lifesciences has extensive operations in North America, Europe, Japan, Latin America and Asia and currently employs over 18,500 individuals worldwide.

For us, helping patients is not a slogan - its our lifes work. From developing devices that replace or repair a diseased heart valve to creating new technologies that monitor vital signs in the critical care setting, we focus on helping patients regain and improve the quality of their life.

COVID Vaccination Requirement

Edwards is committed to complying with the requirements and guidance from our government authorities and to protecting our vulnerable patients and the healthcare providers who are treating them around the world. As such, all Healthcare Interacting positions require COVID-19 vaccination, which includes anyone who directly interfaces with patients and those who interact with healthcare providers as part of their role. If hired, as a condition of employment, you will be required to submit proof that you have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless you request and are granted a medical or religious accommodation for exemption from the vaccination requirement. This vaccination requirement does not apply in countries where it is prohibited by law to impose vaccination. In countries where vaccines are less available, or other requirements exist, we may institute alternate measures that optimize patient safety and healthcare provider safety, which may include regular COVID testing or specific masking requirements.

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