HTA Manager

Overview

We're in relentless pursuit of breakthroughs that change patients' lives. We innovate every day to make the world a healthier place. To fully realize Pfizer's purpose - Breakthroughs that change patients' lives - we have established a clear set of expectations regarding "what" we need to achieve for patients and "how" we will go about achieving those goals. Pfizer offers competitive compensation and benefits programs designed to meet the diverse needs of our colleagues.

Make a Difference in UK Medicine and Vaccine Access

Are you passionate about UK patients' accessing medicines and shaping the future of healthcare? As an Health & Technology Assessment Manager in our UK Access & Value team, you'll lead strategic initiatives that drive access to innovative medicines and vaccines, collaborating with experts across market access, medical, and commercial teams. Join us to develop impactful health economic models and HTA strategies, influence policy and ultimately help improve patient outcomes in the UK and globally.

Why Join Us?

• Innovation: Work on cutting-edge health economic and outcomes research (HEOR) projects and market access strategies.
• Collaboration: Partner with talented colleagues across functions and geographies.
• Impact: Directly influence patient access and healthcare policy.
• Growth: Benefit from ongoing professional development, mentorship, and career progression.
• Culture: Enjoy a supportive environment with options for hybrid working and work-life balance.

Your Role

As a HTA Manager, you will:

• Lead complex HTA submissions to JCVI, NICE, SMC, and AWMSG from start to finish.
• Establish and guide a core HTA working group, defining strategy and achieving internal sign-off.
• Source, interpret, and generate clinical and economic data to underpin submissions and inform early pipeline strategy.
• Ensure all submissions are completed and signed off in a timely fashion to meet internal and external deadlines.
• Champion above-brand reimbursement and HTA environment-shaping projects, partnering across global HEOR, medical, and corporate affairs.
• Communicate complex economic concepts clearly and impactfully to internal and external stakeholders.

Role Responsibilities

Strategic Partnership

• Guide the implementation of HEOR evidence generation strategies to support the value proposition of medicine or vaccine assets.
• Partner with market access, medical, and commercial teams to align HEOR activities with end-to-end market access strategy.
• Serve as an ambassador for Access & Value (A&V) internally and externally.
• Lead above-brand HTA reimbursement projects to inform and shape future submissions.

Health Economics

• Design and develop health economic models, including technical vendor management for complex models (including infectious disease/vaccines and medicines).
• Build early economic models to inform early pipeline strategy
• Manage HTA submission strategies for NICE, SMC, or JCVI.
• Partner with HTA, market access, and RWE/outcomes colleagues to develop asset evaluations, robust value propositions, and negotiation packages.
• Provide technical input into outcome study designs, RWE collection, economic models, evidence synthesis projects, pricing, and HTA readiness activities.
• Monitor NICE and JCVI websites for decisions and trends to inform and shape submissions.
• Support development of high-quality extracts, manuscripts, value storyboards, and HTA submission dossiers.

Quality Assurance

• Identify and address areas of uncertainty in HTA submissions to achieve recommendations.
• Conduct regular review points and embed learnings within the HTA team.

Role Qualifications, Experience & Skills

Qualifications

• Postgraduate qualification in Health Economics or Outcomes Research or Infectious disease modelling

Experience

• Demonstrable experience in all aspects of several HTA submissions to JCVI, NICE & SMC
• Experience of designing, building, and adapting health economics models for infectious disease and/or vaccines (preferable) and medicines
• Significant experience of conducting evidence generation (SLRs, NMAs, ITCs)
• Thorough understanding of the UK healthcare system

Skills

• Strong research skills, with ability to build, adapt and critique health economic models and source data inputs. Experience working with infectious disease/vaccine models preferred
• Existence of, or ability to develop, internal and external networks
• Demonstrated time management skills, including the ability to manage own time and others time to meet deadlines and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Good communication skills, with the ability to describe complex information to non-technical experts

Work Location Assignment: Hybrid (some office presence is required)

Additional Information

Purpose: Breakthroughs that change patients' lives. Pfizer is a patient-centric company guided by our values of courage, joy, equity and excellence. We are pursuing digital transformation to accelerate drug discovery and development to enhance health outcomes and the patient experience.

Flexibility: We strive for a trusting, flexible workplace culture that supports work-life harmony and talent development. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and encourage applications from all backgrounds.

Disability Confident: We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and will make reasonable adjustments to support your application and career. Our mission is to unleash the power of our people, including those with unique strengths.