Senior Economist

🔥 16 hours ago

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $97.7k - $137.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

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pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance

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11 - 50 employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏥 Healthcare

Consulting • Logistics • Healthcare

pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance is a government-supported alliance that negotiates drug prices with manufacturers on behalf of federal, provincial, and territorial public drug plans across Canada. It aims to support the sustainability of publicly funded drug plans and improve health outcomes by securing cost-effective pricing and centralized agreements for brand-name, generic, and biosimilar drugs, and by providing negotiation frameworks, processes, and performance reporting.

📋 Description

• Provide expertise and leadership for pCPA decision-making on brand negotiations and generic drug assessments • Lead projects supporting evidence-informed negotiations and participate in stakeholder committees • Develop negotiation strategies, set mandates, and reassess offers and counteroffers • Conduct comprehensive financial, utilization, and environmental-scan analyses • Synthesize and report research findings to support negotiation decisions • Identify regulatory, contractual, and potential legal issues affecting negotiations • Re-analyze cost-utility, cost-minimization, cost-effectiveness, and budget-impact analyses • Appraise confidential manufacturer price proposals and quantify financial impacts across jurisdictions and Canada • Evaluate outcome-based offers, valuation, administrative complexity, and pan-Canadian health-system impacts • Lead quantitative research on pharmaceutical savings, drug life cycles, rebates, and reimbursement-policy impacts • Lead or co-lead negotiations with drug manufacturers on behalf of the pCPA • Refine negotiation processes and support provincial and territorial negotiation standards • Lead project scoping, implementation, problem-solving, and deliverable preparation • Lead training and resource-material preparation • Collect, organize, and interpret data for Analytics staff, pCPA staff, and jurisdictional contacts • Develop and evaluate pharmaceutical ecosystem reports and analyses • Prepare policy papers, presentations, memos, correspondence, briefing notes, and reports for management and executives • Consult and liaise with public drug programs, jurisdictions, and medical, legal, and financial experts • Support Analysts with internal and public-facing metrics and performance and risk indicators • Develop, revise, and appraise negotiation policies, programs, and initiatives • Maintain relationships with federal, provincial, territorial, and external partners • Represent the pCPA in working groups and committees and liaise with external partners • Support business-plan development • Stay informed about industry trends • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to Economists and Analysts

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in health economics, finance, business administration, a clinical or scientific discipline, or a related field • 3 to 5 years of work experience in health economic evaluation and budget impact analysis • At least 3 years of experience conducting comprehensive quantitative analyses • At least 3 years of experience working with data for analytical, research, or policy-related work • Experience preparing reports, briefing notes, or presentations • Experience in pharmaceutical sciences, health services research, government, or regulatory environments • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English • Demonstrated proficiency delivering presentations to technical and generalist audiences • In-depth understanding of the Canadian pharmaceutical industry and government processes • Strong problem-solving and independent decision-making abilities • Ability to lead and build consensus without authority • Strong business and digital acumen • Legal eligibility to work in Canada • Frequent travel in different provinces and territories, including periodic multi-day, overnight trips • Experience mentoring or coaching employees is an asset • Experience overseeing working groups and project teams is an asset • Experience supporting negotiation strategies through economic and financial expertise is an asset • French written and verbal communication skills are an asset

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% remote work environment within Canada • Comprehensive group benefits package from the first day of employment • Permanent full-time employment • 36.25 hours per week • AMAPCEO bargaining unit coverage under a collective agreement