Manager, Global Health Economics & Reimbursement, Real-World Evidence

Patients with Mitral and Tricuspid Heart Valve Disease

Patients with mitral and tricuspid heart valve disease often have complex conditions with limited treatment options. Our Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Therapies (TMTT) business unit is boldly pursuing an innovative portfolio of technologies to address a patient’s unmet clinical needs. It’s our driving force to help patients live longer and healthier lives. Join us and be part of our inspiring journey.

Manager of Real-World Evidence

As manager of real-world evidence, you will plan and execute evidence generation strategies using real world data (RWD) to articulate patient unmet needs and overcome market access barriers. This individual acts as a business partner/consultant with cross functional leaders and staff within Edwards, to collaboratively achieve business goals and objectives. This position reports to the Sr Manager of Real-World Evidence.

Work Schedule: This is a remote role for US based employees. Those within driving distance from our headquarters in Irvine, CA will be onsite 4 days a week.

How you will make an impact:

• With the real-world evidence lead, develop, and execute analysis plans for assigned studies.
• Collaborate effectively with stakeholders to translate and operationalize data requests.
• Develop study design and endpoint operationalization.
• Develop analytic specifications as necessary to ensure the accuracy of the planned and completed analyses or basic exploratory analyses.
• Perform data mining and ad-hoc analyses to explore evidence-based business insights.
• Create customized reports to translate research findings and provide insights for stakeholders to make business decisions.
• Provide analytic, statistical and data visualization support for internal reports, posters, podium presentations, and peer-reviewed publications.
• Assist in authoring results sections of the study reports, abstracts, and publications.
• Keep abreast of new developments in statistics, data visualization, and device & drug development through literature review and attendance at workshops and professional meetings.

What you’ll need (Required):

• Bachelor’s degree in a life science, public health, health policy, statistics, health informatics, or related field with a minimum of 8 years of analytic experience in statistics, data science or outcomes research OR a Master’s Degree with a minimum of 6 years of experience
• Strong project management skills
• Effective in building trusted business relationships
• Proficient with SAS and/or R
• Sound knowledge of applied statistics
• Excellent written (business and technical) and verbal communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills
• Experience with data manipulation and cleaning
• Experience with longitudinal data analysis, GLM, survival analysis, propensity score matching
• Experience with RWD analyses (e.g., claims, EMR, administrative data, adaptive clinical trial designs)
  

  What else we look for (Preferred):

  • Advanced degree (e.g., MPH, MSc, Ph.D.) is highly desirable.
  • Experience with managing vendor relations and project timelines for RWE projects.
  • Exceptional project management skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, especially presentation development.
  • Ability to balance strategic thinking with intricate planning and strong tactical execution.
  • Experience with advanced analytic methods (e.g., machine learning, natural language processing).
  • Experience with SQL, Python or other programming languages.
  • Experience with Tableau, Power BI or other data visualization software.
  • Participated in peer-reviewed journal publications.
  • Understanding of key public and private payer policy infrastructure, payment methodologies coding and coverage; health policy trends, and current business challenges.
  • Previous experience in, or strong working knowledge of the medical device industry.
  • Experience working with external stakeholders such as payers, hospitals, physicians, trade associations, professional and medical organizations to develop mutually beneficial evidence generation strategies and tactics to support portfolio planning, commercialization, and sales/marketing objectives.
  • 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 Colorado, the base pay range for this position is $120,000 to $170,000 (highly experienced).

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

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