Health Economics Marketing Student Placement - Roche Diagnostics Healthcare Development & Strategic Services

by Roche Diagnostics

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Deadline: 22nd February 2017
Salary: Competitive
Length: Placement (10 Months+)
Roles: Economics, Marketing
Location: South East
City: Burgess Hill, West Sussex

About Roche Diagnostics

Roche is the world’s leading research-based healthcare company, providing innovative products to both the Pharmaceutical and Diagnostics industries. We are passionate about transforming patients’ lives and at Roche, we focus on developing innovative medicines and diagnostic tests that help patients live longer, better lives.

Our UK Diagnostics business, headquartered in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, employs approximately 560 highly skilled individuals. We provide the industry’s broadest range of diagnostics and monitoring products & services, spanning all sectors of the market: from small hand held devices used directly by patients or healthcare professionals, to large diagnostic instruments found in hospital laboratories.

Health Economics Marketing Student Placement - Roche Diagnostics Healthcare Development & Strategic Services

Starting in the Summer 2017, for a 12-month period, we are giving one undergraduate/graduate the opportunity to work as a Health Economics Student Placement, within Roche’s Healthcare Development and Strategic Services (HDSS) team.

Roche Diagnostics provides a wide range of products and services to the NHS to help clinicians with the diagnosis and treatment of patients.  The Health Economics Function is responsible for ensuring the value of diagnostics to the patient and healthcare system are clearly demonstrated, to position them at the heart of care pathways and at the forefront of clinicians’ decisions.

The Role

Based at our state-of-the-art site in Burgess Hill (15 minutes by train from Brighton), you will be working at the heart of the Health Economic function and closely to the healthcare development and marketing teams to gain invaluable market access knowledge and expertise. You will be contributing to key projects including value proposition development, health economic research and publications and specific disease related projects. You will provide support to the wider HDSS and Roche Diagnostics teams across the UK and Ireland.

Other key responsibilities include:

  • Researching disease areas and understanding the current treatment landscape, including resource use and cost parameters
  • Analysing, interpreting and potentially training on efficacy, safety and cost-effectiveness data
  • Being an integral part of the NICE liaison work
  • Developing a range of tools and materials to support market access activities at a national, regional and local level
  • Leading the implementation of tools and materials to internal and external stakeholders in order to accelerate adoption of our high medical value products.

Who you are

You’re someone who wants to influence your own development. You’re looking for a company where you have the opportunity to pursue your interests across functions and geographies. Where a job title is not considered the final definition of who you are, but the starting point.

We are looking for a flexible, hardworking and highly motivated individual with an inquiring mind.  A strategic thinker with an entrepreneurial spirit and the ability to prioritise and deliver, you can drive change and adoption of new concepts.

In order to be successful in this role you will have excellent computer and web skills, as well as the ability to work reliably and to deadlines. Degree educated in Health Economics or Economics (with Health Economic exposure), you will be a strong communicator, able to work independently and within a team.
 
You will also have the ability to develop effective working relationships with a wide range of colleagues and external partners. You will possess an outstanding eye for detail and quality. Knowledge of statistical analysis/modelling software such as SAS, STATA or TreeAge would be an advantage.
 
Healthcare is personal and it’s about YOU as an individual in your application that will make the difference.

Assessment Centre date is Friday 17th March 2017 (in Burgess Hill).

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