Associate Director - Health Technology Assessment - London

Overview

• Act as a senior strategic advisor to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device clients on HTA evidence planning, market access strategy and reimbursement optimisation.
• Lead the design and delivery of complex, high-value global and regional HTA programmes, with limited senior oversight.
• Guide clients through evolving HTA requirements, including EU Joint Clinical Assessments, national HTA submissions, early scientific advice, evidence planning and reimbursement processes.
• Shape and evolve IQVIA’s HTA consulting offerings in collaboration with the Centre of Excellence for HTA Evidence and Strategy and the wider senior leadership team.
• Identify emerging HTA and market access trends and translate them into relevant, innovative client solutions.
• Develop and maintain senior-level client relationships, acting as a trusted advisor and identifying opportunities to expand existing accounts and build new relationships.
• Support HTA-related business development opportunities, which may include supporting proposal development, scope definition, pricing and contract discussions, with appropriate senior input.
• Provide executive oversight across multiple concurrent projects and programmes, ensuring scientific quality, strategic relevance, client satisfaction and commercial performance.
• Lead senior client discussions, steering committee interactions, problem solving, negotiation and risk mitigation across complex engagements.
• Work collaboratively across internal IQVIA teams, including technical consultants responsible for generating HTA evidence and complementary functions such as Market Access, Patient-Centered Solutions, HTA Accelerator Solutions, database studies and local teams across the globe.
• Act as a role model, coach and mentor for consultants, senior consultants and emerging leaders, creating opportunities that support their career development as HTA specialists.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, performance management, succession planning and capability development across the team.
• Provide formal line management responsibilities, as appropriate.
• Lead and contribute to thought leadership on HTA topics, including conference abstracts and posters, white papers, peer-reviewed publications and external presentations.
• Represent IQVIA at relevant industry conferences, scientific meetings, client forums and other external events.

This job is available in the UK and in EU countries. Don't hesitate to apply if you're interested either in the UK or in any EU country, even if not all of them are listed.

The team

IQVIA is a fast-growing and highly successful consultancy business, focusing on delivering tangible business results to our clients who are key decision-makers and business managers across the international pharmaceutical and healthcare industry. With direct access to the world's most comprehensive healthcare information, analytic and research resources, IQVIA experts design and deliver innovative, data- and technology-enabled evidence programmes for the pharmaceutical industry. We apply scientific rigour and advanced analytics to real-world data to help our clients improve healthcare.

The IQVIA Global Health Economics and HTA team includes highly qualified multi-disciplinary professionals in a variety of health economics, statistics, life sciences and epidemiology-related disciplines based across multiple geographies worldwide. We help our customers design and execute an evidence generation strategy meeting payer and health technology assessment (HTA) evidence requirements and effectively communicate their product's value story.

Our clients operate in the life sciences industry, including the global top 20 pharmaceutical companies, medical device and biotech companies, as well as public health providers and regulatory authorities. They are looking for insight and evidence around the safety, efficacy, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of healthcare delivery systems, medical devices, and pharmaceutical products spanning the full spectrum of therapeutic and disease areas. Our diverse mix of clients, the breadth of disease areas, as well as increasing access to novel data sources and methodologies provide a constant and rewarding challenge for our people.

For more information about our company please visit our website: https://www.iqvia.com/

Associate Director in Health Technology Assessment Strategy and Implementation

Role Overview

This is a senior leadership role within the Global Health Economics and HTA team, with a focus on health technology assessment (HTA), market access and strategic offerings. The Associate Principal will lead complex client engagements, develop senior client relationships, contribute to business growth, shape future service offerings and support the development of the HTA practice. The successful candidate will:

The demand for IQVIA’s HTA offerings continues to expand in response to evolving HTA processes across the globe. The Associate