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A Day in the Life

Medtronic is among the largest medical technology companies in the world. Through innovation and collaboration, Medtronic helps to alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. Last year, our medical therapies for the treatment of over 40 major conditions, improved the lives of more than 75 million people around the world.

Your role will be to lead the development and execution of the reimbursement and health economic strategies to enable patient access to Structural Heart (SH) products, in particular transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) and transcathetier pulmonary valves (TPV) across the EMEA region.

The Program Manager will work as a partner to Medtronic’s business to secure optimal reimbursement and funding for these therapies by developing clinical and economic evidence, health economic evaluations, value propositions, and customer-facing economic tools. This role will forge close, cross-functional working relationships with reimbursement, marketing, clinical, government affairs, pricing and other functions across the business.

Working collaboratively, the Program Manager will facilitate the understanding and prioritization of market access needs across EMEA countries, develop appropriate health economic tools or value propositions to address those needs, and direct both in-house and outsourced execution of those plans.

To achieve these goals, he/she will develop a deep understanding of company products, country-specific issues, policy impacts, and the types of evidence that are appropriate for supporting operating unit and regional priorities.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Deliver relevant evidence and tools to meet EMEA countries’ HTA (Health Technology Assessment), reimbursement and funding needs, to expand market access of TAVI, TPV and other structural heart products in EMEA. 
• Use your specialist knowledge of health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) to optimize Health Technology Assessments (HTA), Reimbursement applications, Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG) funding mechanisms, Value Based HealthCare (VBHC) programs including risk sharing contracts, and Hospital- or Payer-level business cases 
• Provide input to evidence development plans including input to clinical study design, including measurement of healthcare utilization and patient reported outcomes / quality of life, and analysis of real-world healthcare administrative datasets or registries.
• Execute health economic projects including cost-effectiveness, cost-utility, cost-of-illness analyses and budget impact analyses to support market access strategies 
• Develop product value stories and deliver regional value dossiers for effective and timely use in EMEA countries 
• Analyze and communicate clinical & economic evidence to target audiences within the region, including publication of research findings
• Be an internal expert on reimbursement of structural heart products and identify risks and opportunities for business planning processes
• Represent Reimbursement and Health Economics at external meetings

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Postgraduate degree (MS, MPH, MPP, MBA, PhD or MD) in Economics, Health Economics, Life Sciences,  Health Policy or related field required
• 7+ years market access experience for medical devices or pharmaceutical products (reimbursement, health economics, HTA and funding applications)
• 7+ years’ experience in health economics, outcomes research or medical device technology assessment, with a track record of successful reimbursement and funding applications in the health care environment.
• Good knowledge of the application, development and review of health economic models
• Experience in conducting outcomes research projects and developing value propositions
• Good knowledge of reimbursement systems in Europe
• Fluent in English
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, ability to work across cultures, strong project management skills, results orientation, quality orientation.

 

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

 

 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

 

Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik:  Denmark: 804,000.00 DKK - 1,206,000.00 DKK | France: 83,200.00 EUR - 124,800.00 EUR | Germany: 107,520.00 EUR - 161,280.00 EUR | Italy: 77,120.00 EUR - 115,680.00 EUR | Spain: 86,320.00 EUR - 129,480.00 EUR | Switzerland: 158,000.00 CHF - 237,000.00 CHF | United Kingdom: 81,440.00 GBP - 122,160.00 GBP | 

 

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here