Senior Consultant HTA for the UK market - Johannesburg area - South Africa

The Team

IQVIA is a fast-growing and highly successful consultancy business, focusing on delivering tangible business results to our clients who are key decision-makers and business managers across the international pharmaceutical and healthcare industry. With direct access to the world's most comprehensive healthcare information, analytic and research resources, IQVIA experts design and deliver innovative, data- and technology-enabled evidence programmes for the pharmaceutical industry. We apply scientific rigour and advanced analytics to real-world data to help our clients improve healthcare.

The IQVIA Global Health Economics and HTA team includes highly qualified multi-disciplinary professionals in a variety of health economics, statistics, life sciences and epidemiology-related disciplines based across multiple geographies worldwide. We help our customers design and execute an evidence generation strategy meeting payer and health technology assessment (HTA) evidence requirements and effectively communicate their product's value story.

Our clients operate in the life sciences industry, including the global top 20 pharmaceutical companies, medical device and biotech companies, as well as public health providers and regulatory authorities. They are looking for insight and evidence around the safety, efficacy, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of healthcare delivery systems, medical devices, and pharmaceutical products spanning the full spectrum of therapeutic and disease areas. Our diverse mix of clients, the breadth of disease areas, as well as increasing access to novel data sources and methodologies provide a constant and rewarding challenge for our people. For more information about our company please visit our website: https://www.iqvia.com/

Role Overview

This is a manager role within the IQVIA Global Health Economics and HTA team with a focus on health technology assessment (HTA) and strategic offerings to support our clients with designing an evidence generation and dissemination strategy for their products that meets HTA requirements and optimises the chances for market access. The primary focus of this role is on UK HTA, supporting submissions and engagements with agencies such as NICE and the SMC, although there is flexibility to work on other types of products and geographies should the opportunity arise.

The successful candidate will:

• Be involved in shaping and leading the team and offerings, working closely with the wider senior leadership team and centres of excellence across the global network
• Manage business development, from proactively developing client relationships to understanding their strategic goals and milestones, with senior oversight; confirming, managing and maintaining the scope of the project to meet those goals in a timely and efficient manner
• Manage HTA project strategy and direction, with a particular emphasis on UK HTA processes and requirements, with senior oversight; identifying potential challenges to product value, and the development of risk mitigation strategies, as appropriate
• Manage the project delivery team on a range of projects, including dossier development and submission support for UK HTA agencies, early scientific advice, informing and defining HTA strategy and other strategic HTA offerings to support our clients, with senior oversight. There will also be opportunities to contribute to multi-country and global HTA projects
• Involvement in mediating, negotiating and problem solving, within and outside of the immediate project team, with senior oversight
• Train and identify opportunities for more junior members of the team to support their career development as HTA specialists
• Work within and across internal IQVIA teams, including technical consultants responsible for studies generating HTA evidence and complementary functions such as Market Access, Patient-Centered Solutions, HTA Accelerator Solutions, database studies and local teams across the global network
• Liaise with clients who will include pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical devices companies with global and regional headquarters, and occasionally their affiliate teams
• Support and/or lead thought leadership for HTA topics, such as preparing conference abstracts and posters, supporting development of white papers and peer-reviewed publications on HTA and guiding interns working with the team on HTA-focused thesis topics
• Provide line management, depending on interests

The demand for IQVIA's HTA offerings has seen dramatic increases over the past two years and will continue to expand in response to evolving HTA processes globally, including the growing importance of UK HTA. The role of the Senior Consultant is a management role within the IQVIA Global Health Economics and HTA team and is expected to play an important role in shaping the team's UK HTA offerings. There will also be opportunities to expand your portfolio into other areas if desired.

The role is based in either Spain, Greece, Portugal or South Arica, with flexibility regarding frequency of office and home working. Please refer to our diversity and inclusion statement for further information.

The Successful Candidate

We are looking for a candidate with a good mix of academic and professional experience, domain experience, and interpersonal skills. An ideal candidate has experience with UK HTA submissions and preparing for and supporting early HTA scientific advice, as well as proven success in navigating HTA processes in a strategic way to optimise a product's access to markets and reimbursement. Experience with multi-country HTA submissions is also highly desirable. Experience with statistical methods used in clinical trials and evidence synthesis is highly desirable.

The ideal candidate will also have a good understanding of the structure typical of our clients from the pharmaceutical industry and how to successfully navigate this structure to achieve client's aims.

The list below should be viewed as a guide rather than a checklist.

Qualifications and Desired Experience

• Postgraduate degree level education or higher from a relevant discipline (such as, but not limited to, HTA, health economics, economics, life sciences, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, medicine, pharmacy, etc.) AND at least 4 years of relevant work experience (such as, but not limited to, pharmaceutical sector, consulting, academia) with preparing evidence submissions aligned to the HTA processes and requirements within the UK and/or Europe as well as involvement in the appraisal and negotiation processes, where relevant
• Demonstrable commercial awareness and thorough understanding of the pharmaceutical industry, with an existing network of HEOR contacts highly desirable
• Project management experience, including managing multidisciplinary teams
• Strategic thinking and attention to detail
• Previous experience in a consultancy environment is highly desirable
• Commercial acumen and proven consultancy skills is highly desirable
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with fluency in English – applications should be sent in English
• Strong understanding of the design of clinical trials, statistical methods used in clinical trials, and methodology for evidence synthesis is highly desirable
• Quantitative skills, including biostatistics and health economic modelling methods and good knowledge of statistical software packages (e.g., STATA, R) is desirable but not essential

Please submit your CV in English.

Our Commitment to You

IQVIA are committed to your professional growth in the healthcare industry. During the first three months new joiners will be supported with a structured onboarding programme to ensure a smooth transition into the team and the wider organisation.

IQVIA offers numerous training opportunities. As a Senior Consultant you will have opportunities for external trainings aligned