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Associate Principal Scientist, Health Economics

Merck
10 days ago
Remote friendly (Upper Gwynedd, PA)
United States
Market Access
Associate Principal Scientist, Health Economics (London, UK or West Point, PA, USA)

What Will You Do
- Develop and maintain global health economic models and tools to generate business insights and demonstrate product value (epidemiology, cost-effectiveness, public health, budget impact) using established and novel methodologies.
- Provide insights into development/refinement of the integrated value evidence strategy from a health economics perspective.
- Collaborate with internal/external stakeholders to generate and synthesise evidence that informs economic models and value strategy.
- Support adaptation and/or training of global health economic resources for HEDS Regional/local HEOR teams to enable HTA submissions and market access activities.
- Disseminate health economic evidence via presentations and publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Qualifications
- Doctoral or Master’s degree in Health Economics, Economics, Biostatistics, Actuarial Sciences, or related quantitative discipline.

Required Experience and Skills
- Proven experience conceptualising, designing, developing, and disseminating health economic analyses for decision-making.
- Strong Health Economics Outcomes Research experience in pharma, consultancy, or related organization.
- Understanding of market access environments across major global markets (US, Canada, UK, EU4, China, Japan).
- Strong interpersonal, organisational, and communication skills to work across multidisciplinary teams.

Preferred
- Experience supporting HTA submissions and developing health economic resources for market access.
- Analytical thinking and problem-solving.
- Immunology experience; knowledge of evidence generation/synthesis (real-world studies, literature reviews, meta-analyses).

Required Skills
Analytical Thinking, Epidemiology, Health Economics, Health Technology Assessment (HTA), Immunology/Immunotherapy, Market Access, Public Health, Researching, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Strategic Planning.

Application
- Current employees and contingent workers apply HERE.