Associate Director/Director, Global Epidemiology

Incyte is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel medicines to meet serious unmet medical needs in oncology and inflammation and autoimmunity. Incyte is committed to the rigorous pursuit of research and development excellence to improve the lives of patients, make a difference in health care, and build sustainable value.

The Company strives to discover and develop first-in-class and best-in-class medicines-advancing a diverse portfolio of large and small molecules.

Job Summary (Primary function)

This role will be responsible for planning and managing outcomes research and real world evidence activities for pipeline and in-line molecules including, but not limited to, design and implementation of retrospective database studies, assessment of patient reported outcomes (PROs), and conduct of epidemiological studies. This position will also drive cross-functional discussions to ensure that the right value elements are considered as part of a broad evidence generation strategy in collaboration with Global Value, Access, & Pricing (GVAP) team and other functions.

The ideal candidate will have knowledge of and/or experience with large health administrative databases (EMRs, Claims, registries etc.), lead or support analysis and evidence generation of disease burden, incidence and prevalence, treatment patterns and drug utilization, incidence of adverse events, and impact of risk factors. The ideal candidate will work in a highly collaborative and integrated manner to efficiently coordinate prospective generation of real world data emanating from external collaborations and the internal communication of such data for vetting and contextual interpretation.

Essential Functions of the Job (Key responsibilities)

• Work closely with the Global Medical Affairs (GMA), Global Product Strategy (GPS), and regional Health Economics & Outcomes (HEOR) teams as well as medical directors, clinicians, statisticians, statistical programmers, and medical writers to provide scientifically sound epidemiology research strategies across Incyte's portfolio
• Provide guidance for the design and execution of prospective and retrospective studies to generate real world evidence related to disease natural history, patient burden, treatment patterns, and other key clinical and psychosocial factors.
• Provide expert support for post-hoc analyses of randomized clinical trials evaluating clinical, patient-centered, and/or economic endpoints.
• Design surveys of patients, caregivers, health care providers/practitioners, and/or payers/health technology assessment authorities.
• Maintain awareness of scientific developments within areas of expertise, both in terms of new methodology and new activities to establish communications with key outcomes research opinion leaders
• Support selection, administration, development and/or validation of Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) and Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) instruments when necessary
• Support development of Global Value Dossiers by liaising between the RWE statistics, Global/Regional Medical Directors, and Global Value Access and Pricing (GVAP) cross-functional teams
• Review methodology for scientific meeting abstracts, posters, presentations, publication manuscripts, and commercial information flyers for marketed indications
• Participate in abstract/manuscript development including providing input to study design, statistical analyses and medical writing, and reviewing and approving the drafts
• Present relevant study materials to internal and external stakeholders and at scientific conferences
• Build relationships and collaborations with leading authorities, academic institutions, and government entities focused on PRO and QoL initiatives
• Establish company leadership by collaborating to enhance the importance and impact of the patient voice in public policy, regulatory approvals and other healthcare decision making
• Perform all company business in accordance with regulations and company policies and procedures.

Qualifications (Minimal acceptable level of education, work experience, and competency)

• Doctoral degree from a recognized school of medicine, public health, management, pharmacy, or economics - OR - Master degree required from a recognized school of medicine, public health, management, pharmacy, or economics
• Minimum five years' experience in the areas of health economics, outcomes research, market access, HTA or related field with in-depth knowledge of epidemiology, RWD (real-world data) and analytics, RWE (real world evidence) generation. Ideally, the candidate has extensive epidemiologic research experiences in the oncology and IAI therapeutic areas.
• Experience working with RWD and analytics service vendors, and ability to evaluate vendor products and services for feasibility and applicability to in-house analytic needs.
• Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and managing prospective and retrospective observational studies is highly desirable.
• Experience working in global medical affairs is strongly preferred.
• Understanding of the global and US domestic healthcare and pharmaceutical industry and different data sources.
• Demonstrated research accomplishment (e.g. publications in peer reviewed journals, presentations at scientific conferences) expected.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and ability to work well independently as well as across organizational teams.
• Good organization and project management skills
• Ability to travel domestic and international, when required

Disclaimer: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications. Management reserves the right to change or modify such duties as required.

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