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Director Health Economics

Zurich, Canton of Zurich
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Vaccines prevent 2 to 3 million deaths each year and have transformed global public health. For the past 70 years, Takeda has supplied vaccines to protect the health of people in Japan. Today, Takeda's global vaccine business is applying innovation to tackle some of the world's most challenging infectious diseases, such as dengue, COVID-19, Zika and norovirus. Takeda’s team brings an outstanding track record and a wealth of knowledge in vaccine development, manufacturing and global access to advance a pipeline of vaccines to address some of the world's most pressing public health needs.

Job ID R0151038 Date posted 05/19/2025 Location Zurich, Canton of Zurich

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Job Description

At our heart we are committed colleagues. We offer interested people numerous opportunities and strongly believe in, and promote, diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a company we offer roles based on merit, welcoming candidates of any gender, age, religious belief, sexual orientation, race, color, ethnic or social origin, or disability.

Our team is growing and for this we need bright minds with creativity and flexibility – what talent do you have?

ACCOUNTABILITIES

  • Global Lead for development of Health-Economics models for vaccines in conjunction with external vendors to support access in broad range of markets
  • Lead Health Economic components of global value dossiers and payer value narrative material development that address LOC access hurdles
  • Lead LOC training on HE models
  • Co-lead in conjunction with Medical, timely strategic written responses to NITAGs and Payers
  • Support LOC HTA Submissions and payer negotiations
  • Support evidence generation activities for HTA submission.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Outcomes driven project management of key global Health Economic deliverables

  • Strategically drive development of health economics models that address diverse market needs including provincial and national reimbursement across range of markets including EU and emerging markets in LATM and APAC.
  • Strategically drive the development of health economic components of key access material (e.g. Global Value Dossier, value messages) ensuring they meet local market access needs and strategically address access hurdles
  • Effectively manage external consultants including RFP, selection, execution of contracts, budget management and active strategic guidance of the projects acting as the primary liaison for alignment of Takeda internal strategy and external project delivery
  • Demonstrate leadership of cross functional team and ability to drive resolutions in the cross functional development of material
  • Define and communicate timelines with proactive mitigation of challenges via timely escalation
  • Anticipate challenges and proactively enact solutions as necessary

Technically sound health economic, statistical and evidence appraisal skills to lead

  • Critical appraisal of clinical evidence for Value Proposition and HE modelling as well as HE model structure, inputs parameters, sensitivity analyses
  • Finalisation of the HE models and ensuring it meets both internal commercial goals and external payer requirements.
  • Development of complementary evidence to support HTA submissions with meta-analyses, ITC, RWE studies in collaboration with Medical Affairs, Epidemiology and other relevant functions.

Co-Lead NITAG HTA taskforce timely written responses to NITAG and payer questions

  • Strong understanding of HTA process and experience with submission, response to questions across numerous market
  • Strategic mindset to lead crafting of response to address broader context beyond the technical specifics
  • Excellent communication and project management capabilities to drive coordinated cross functional drafting and review of response

Training of LOCs and collaboration on health economic projects

  • Lead LOC training on material to support HTA submissions
  • Actively building and maintain knowledge of health economics challenges in the LOC markets
  • Frequent communication
  • Providing methodological and technical support

Actively seek opportunities to liaise and partner with members of global cross-functional teams

  • Strong focus on evidence generation in particular projects that may relate to effectiveness studies and potential reimbursement conditional approval
  • Ensure health economic projects are strategically aligned with other functions
  • Be a strong voice, helping to steer cross functional work to align on how best to support cost-effectiveness /access hurdles.

Externally focused mindset on building advocacy and awareness via publications

  • Role involves management of a number of publications related to country specific cost-effectiveness results and broader publication on the ‘value of vaccines’
  • Strategic and big picture mindset required to stage publications in consideration of the evolving payer landscape.

Strategic mindset actively seeking to create solutions to health economic challenges by

  • Identifying challenges and researching potential solutions
  • Lateral mindset unafraid to challenge the status quo and propose alternative approaches

Anticipate future trends in the Health Economics field

  • Monitor changes in the external environment and develops innovative ways of capturing the full economic value of vaccines
  • Actively participate in Health Economic Networks / Peer groups/ ISPOR etc.

EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:

Basic Qualifications

  • MSc / PhD in Health Economics/Epidemiology/Statistics.
  • Proven track record and significant experience of delivering HTA submissions and health economic models within a consultancy or pharmaceutical company
  • Proven ability for strategic thinking and working across the business to define, generate and deliver health economics strategy.
  • Excellent leadership and influencing skills with the ability to influence and challenge without line management authority
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience. Strong enthusiasm with a drive to succeed and the ability to work independently
  • Project management skills with ability to work on numerous projects in parallel
  • Display solid ethics.
  • Fluent in English (written and verbal)
  • Openness to domestic or international travel will be required, approx. 10% of the time

Preferred Qualifications
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

  • Excellent understanding of vaccines and dengue in particular.
  • Experience with HTA submission and access hurdles in Latin America and Asia Pacific
  • Experience with WHO and PAHO review
  • Motivated by demonstrating the full value of vaccines and shaping health economic movement on how better to address current hurdles. Opportunity to publish and participate in associated networks.

Empowering our people to shine

At Takeda, we earn the trust of society and our customers through our values of Takeda-ism: Integrity, Fairness, Honesty, Perseverance. We incorporate these values in everything we do. They represent who we are and how we act. They help us make decisions that we can be proud of today and in the future. We enable our employees to develop their full potential. As a global top employer, we offer exciting career paths, promote innovation, and strive for top performance in everything we do. Takeda fosters an inclusive, collaborative, and international work environment where our teams are united by their relentless commitment to our goal of improving people's health and creating a better future for the world.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion

Takeda is committed to foster diversity, equality, and inclusion. Hiring decisions are based entirely on qualifications and are made regardless of gender, ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, or disability.

If you are interested in this opportunity, we look forward to receiving your application via our online tool!

Learn more at takedajobs.com

Locations

Zurich, Switzerland

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time
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Success profile

What makes a successful team member within Vaccines at Takeda?

  • Integrity
  • Fairness
  • Inventive
  • Perseverance
  • Honesty
  • Collaborative

Our leadership

Vaccines represent a new dimension of global impact — successful leadership at Takeda can be encompassed in these four pillars:

Demonstrating strategic enterprise thinking, finding innovative ways to serve patients and build trust, reputation and business

Creating the environment that inspires and enables people to move the organization forward

Focusing on the few priorities and delivers superior results

Elevating the capabilities of the organization for now and the future

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    Through trust and respect, you will have genuine support from leaders, managers, and colleagues to do your best work.

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