Senior Health Economist

Join a collaborative, high-performing team at the forefront of healthcare decision-making, where your expertise will help determine access to new medicines and medical technologies.

Health Economist / Senior Health Economist

Location: Wellington, New Zealand (Hybrid)

Proclinical is partnering with a leading national healthcare organisation responsible for evaluating medicines and medical devices to support evidence-based funding decisions.

This is an excellent opportunity for a Health Economist or Senior Health Economist to join a collaborative, high-performing team where your work will directly influence patient access to healthcare technologies at a national level.

You'll work across a broad range of therapeutic areas, applying health economic modelling, evidence synthesis and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) to inform complex reimbursement and funding decisions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct Health Technology Assessments (HTAs) for medicines and medical devices.
• Develop and critically review Cost-Utility Analyses (CUAs) and Budget Impact Analyses (BIAs).
• Build and adapt health economic models using Excel and TreeAge.
• Evaluate and synthesise clinical, epidemiological and economic evidence.
• Present technical findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with clinicians, statisticians, medical writers and other multidisciplinary colleagues.
• Peer review health economic analyses to ensure methodological quality and consistency.
• Support continuous improvement of health economic assessment processes.
• Contribute to policy discussions relating to healthcare funding and reimbursement.

About You:

We're interested in speaking with candidates who have experience in one or more of the following:

• Health Economics, HEOR or Health Technology Assessment.
• Building health economic models, particularly Cost-Utility Analyses (CUAs).
• Budget Impact Analysis (BIA).
• Economic evaluation of medicines and/or medical devices.
• Critical appraisal of clinical and economic literature.
• Communicating complex technical information to a range of audiences.
• Working independently while collaborating within multidisciplinary teams.

Applicants will typically hold a degree (or higher qualification) in Health Economics, Economics, Biostatistics or another quantitative discipline.

What's on Offer:

• Visa sponsorship available.
• Relocation support.
• Hybrid working.
• Five weeks annual leave plus additional paid Christmas shutdown.
• Subsidized private health insurance.
• Annual wellbeing allowance.
• Opportunity to work on nationally significant healthcare funding decisions.
• Supportive, collaborative team with excellent staff retention and career development opportunities.

If you are having difficulty in applying or if you have any questions, please contact Jake Robinson at [email protected].

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