Director, HTA, Value & Evidence (HV&E) - Obesity

Pfizer; Headquarters (WA); Hybrid; USD 177,000 - 294,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Pfizer is seeking a Director, HTA, Value & Evidence (HV&E) - Obesity to lead the global evidence generation strategy for obesity assets within the Primary Care Division. You will oversee HEOR activities, develop comprehensive value dossiers, and coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure optimal patient access across launches and lifecycle stages.

Role requires a strong leadership record in HEOR, strategic thinking, and collaboration with medical, commercial, and access strategy teams.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree required (e.g. MSc, MPH, PhD)
• 7+ years of experience with MSc/MPH/MBA; 5+ years with PharmD/PhD/DrPH in HEOR or related fields
• Expertise in HEOR strategy and evidence development
• Experience with health economics modeling and real-world evidence studies
• Strong project management and leadership in cross-functional teams
• Excellent English communication and stakeholder engagement

Responsibilities

• Lead development of the global evidence generation strategy for Obesity assets in Primary Care
• Coordinate input from local country/regional teams for global market access at launch and lifecycle
• Design and execute global HEOR studies (network meta-analyses, non-interventional studies, economic models)
• Develop launch deliverables: value dossiers, LDPs and economic models for reimbursement and access
• Incorporate patient-reported outcomes and humanistic endpoints into trials
• Guide clinical trial design and dissemination of HEOR materials in regulatory contexts
• Foster strategic partnerships with external experts and payers to support asset strategies

Skills

HEOR strategy

Evidence development

Health economics

Patient-reported outcomes

Statistics

Real-world evidence

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

MSc/MPH/PhD in HEOR or related field

Tools

SAS

R

Excel

Job description

Use Your Power for Purpose As a leading biopharmaceutical company, Pfizer is dedicated to the discovery and delivery of high value therapies across a variety of disease areas. It is our mission to bring innovative medicines to patients that significantly improve their lives, and our priority is to ensure patients have access to these medicines. The Health Technology Assessment (HTA), Value & Evidence (HV&E) team is responsible for ensuring patients have affordable, timely access to medicines and vaccines by advancing innovative value and evidence solutions to inform healthcare decision-making. The Director, HTA, Value & Evidence (HV&E) - Obesity will support the strategic goals of the Primary Care Division by driving optimal patient access for Pfizer’s portfolio of Obesity products. This role influences global business objectives by guiding strategic evidence development to ensure optimal patient access for Obesity treatments. The HV&E Director will be responsible for developing and executing against the global evidence generation strategy, including direct oversight of evidence generation activities and dissemination of technical deliverables. This position will be part of Pfizer’s dynamic Global HTA Value and Evidence team and will have the important role of managing health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) to generate data to support patient access to Obesity treatments. This position will be working closely with the Primary Care Global Access Strategy and Pricing (GASP) team, US Market Access team, cross-functional and country teams to foster a culture that promotes innovation and thrives on doing better for Pfizer’s patients and society in general.

What You Will Achieve

• Lead the development of the evidence generation strategy to support the value of internal medicine assets (focus on Obesity treatments) in the Primary Care Division, in close partnership with the cross-functional matrix team (e.g., medical, commercial, access strategy/pricing, statistics, clinical).
• Lead the coordination of input from local country/regional teams on evidence needs and ensure that the input is appropriately incorporated into the evidence strategy to support global market access needs at launch and through lifecycle.
• Lead the design and execution of global HEOR studies (e.g., network meta-analyses, non-interventional studies, economic models) from concept through publication.
• Lead the timely development of launch deliverables including value & evidence strategy, global value dossiers/AMCP/JCA dossiers, systematic literature reviews, economic models, and innovative tools to successfully support reimbursement and access requirements in partnership with the regions/countries.
• Develop patient-reported outcomes strategy and incorporate humanistic and economic endpoints into clinical trials across all phases of product development to build comprehensive trial-based evidence aligned with overall asset strategy and to ensure global reimbursement and access requirements.
• Provide strategic input into clinical trial designs (e.g., patient populations, comparators, endpoints) and analysis to enable successful negotiations, reimbursement, and appropriate patient access with global payer and regulatory decision makers.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to ensure appropriate customer-facing dissemination of HEOR materials per regulatory guidance and internal SOPs.
• Develop strategic partnerships and research collaborations with key external experts, healthcare policy makers, payers, and various academic and community oncology settings to support asset strategies.

Basic Qualifications

• Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.
• Graduate degree required (e.g. MSc, MPH, PhD)
• 7+ years of experience with MSc/MPH/MBA degree; 5+ years with PharmD/PhD/DrPH in HEOR or relevant related fields (health economics, epidemiology, health services research, or other research-focused public health field)
• Expertise in HEOR strategy, evidence development, fundamental health services research methods and tools, including health economic modeling, patient-reported outcomes, statistics, and real-world evidence studies including technical and methodological aspects of registries and observational study design, implementation, analysis and interpretation.
• Capable of independently managing complex non-interventional study projects.
• Knowledge and understanding of drug development process.
• Excellent interpersonal skills required: ability to understand and respond to multiple internal and external customers.
• Excellent oral and written English communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to assess anticipated value for projects/programs to ensure alignment to business priorities and prioritize accordingly.
• "execution mindset" focused on getting things done quickly and simply.
• Strong project management abilities (contracting, budgeting, vendor management) essential.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects (multitask) involving complex processes, significant budget, competing deadlines and rapidly shifting priorities and expertise in stakeholder engagement.
• Leadership in cross-functional teams (e.g. influence medical, clinical, and commercial teams constructively and without conflict); strategic thinking, and ability to guide junior team members.
• Skilled in functioning within a matrix organization.
• Organized and detail oriented with the ability to anticipate needs and to work proactively to prioritize & address/resolve.
• Change oriented, comfortable responding to unexpected demands with tight timelines.

Bonus Points

• Knowledge and experience in the Obesity therapy area.
• Experience with HTA organizations such as NICE, CADTH, PBAC, ICER and other HTA groups.
• Experience in supporting global Obesity launch.
• Experience with developing evidence strategies to optimize access in both the reimbursement and cash-pay / direct-to-consumer channels.
• Experience using common AI tools, including generative technologies such as ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, to support problem solving and enhance productivity.
• Demonstrated curiosity for exploring how these tools can improve outcomes and understanding of responsible AI practices, including risk management and ethical use.

Other Job Details

• Last Date to Apply for Job: August 27, 2026
• Ability to travel travel domestically and internationally
• Ability to work in all US time zones
• Location: US any Pfizer site or Europe any Pfizer site NOT eligible for Relocation Package
• This position is hybrid and requires working onsite 2 to 3 days per week
• The annual base salary for this position ranges from $176,600.00 to $294,300.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 20.0% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program.
• We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage.
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• Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided does not apply to Tampa, FL or any location outside of the United States. This role is posted in multiple locations. If you are applying for the role in an secondary job posting location where pay transparency regulations apply, your Talent Advisor will share the local pay information with you during the first interview.
• Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.
• Candidates must be authorized to be employed in the U.S. by any employer. U.S. work visa sponsorship (such as TN, O-1, H-1B, etc.) is not available for this role now or in the future.
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