Market Access Lead - Canada

Job title: Market Access Lead - Canada

About the Role The purpose of this role is to ensure project teams attain optimal reimbursement for our client’s products by developing and leveraging evidence to demonstrate value to Canadian payers. You will lead the execution of national, provincial, and private market access plans to achieve timely reimbursement and manage submissions to HTA agencies across Canada and payer programs.

What You'll Do

• Lead project teams on submissions to CDA-AMC, INESSS, provincial agencies/programs, and private payers.
• Manage the submission process from start to finish, including creating detailed workplans, liaising with the client and cross-functional support, handling all touchpoints with HTA organizations, and managing pull-through processes.
• Coordinate across internal workstreams to ensure strategic consistency and that project timelines are met.
• Conduct background research to support submission strategy and dossier components.
• Develop clinical summaries/clinical evidence templates, budget impact analyses, and all other required submission components for HTA filings to CDA-AMC and INESSS, provincial payers and private drug plans.
• Prepare slide decks and attend meetings with CDA-AMC/INESSS, public drug programs, private payers, the pCPA and advisory boards.
• Interview key opinion leader clinicians regarding standards of care to attain strategic insights to optimize product reimbursement.
• Prepare for and support the facilitation of advisory boards with ex-payers, and in some cases with clinicians.
• Monitor and analyze the access and reimbursement landscape in Canada and update deliverables based on market developments.
• Contribute to research efforts undertaken by the EVERSANA team to publish on issues of pharmaceutical policy in Canada.
• Demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through continuous development, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias.
• All other duties as assigned.

EXPECTATIONS OF THE JOB

• Travel: Some travel may be required for meeting with clients, stakeholders, or off-site personnel/management.
• Hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week. Overtime and/or weekend/evening hours may be required to meet project deadlines.

What We're Looking For

• Education: MSc in a Life Science discipline, Epidemiology, Health Economics or related field.
• Experience and/or Training: A minimum of three years’ direct work experience in health economics, health technology assessment, or a related field; strong basis in cost-effectiveness model design, analysis and interpretation; experience with HTA submissions.
• Skills: Proven ability to manage multiple priorities, demands, and timelines in a fast-paced environment; leadership, teambuilding and team-motivating abilities; strong strategic, problem solving, and analytical capabilities; excellent written, oral, interpersonal and presentation communication; ability to build client relationships.
• Additional: Strong planning, decision-making skills and the ability to work independently and in a team.
• Preferred Qualifications: Experience in model programming in VBA (preferred).

Nice to Have

• Experience in VBA programming (preferred).

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range: Not disclosed.
• Benefits: Not specified.
• Additional information: Not disclosed in posting.