Withings aims to be the global leader in connected health products. We offer non-invasive medical devices that perform a wide range of physiological measurements for the prediction, detection, diagnosis, and monitoring of chronic diseases.

We are looking for a high caliber individual with a proven track record in the Health Economics domain to join our HEMA team. This position is a permanent position and is based in our office in Issy-les-Moulineaux in France (in the very-close neighborhood of Paris).

Your role

You will contribute to the development and implementation of a market access strategy including building medico-economics models for our non-invasive measurements of physiological signals useful for the prevention, diagnosis, and monitoring of chronic diseases.

Clinical Evidence Generation & Health Economics

• Investigate patient management challenges and pain points for our health verticals.
• Assess how Withings products could solve these challenges and pain points.
• Monitor calls for proposals to implement Withings products potential value proposition.
• Contribute to the development of health economics models based on relevant clinical trials (or sub-studies) and internal biomarker data with input from consultants and KOLs.
• Find existing scientific literature that supports the value proposition and potential the clinical utility of Withings products.

Market Access

• Contribute to dossiers, presentations and/or other materials to articulate the value proposition associated with Withings products (or related procedures).
• Monitor payers, medical policies and technology assessments landscape.
• Provide reimbursement information to internal and external (e.g. hospitals, physicians, trade associations, etc.) stakeholders.
• Identify the clinical and health economic arguments that best resonate with key market access stakeholders in coordination with Marketing and Commercial teams.
• o Ensure clinical trial studies design includes market access purposes, by collaborating with Clinical Affairs.
• o Help build a strong medical experts and KOL network to support key market access activities (dossiers, meetings with institutions, position papers, guidelines…).

Health Technology Assessments & Reimbursement

• Contribute to reimbursement strategies in 3 top-priority European countries (France, Germany, UK).
• Help establish and maintain a collaborative relationship with key stakeholders to shape the access environment proactively.
• Benchmark best practices and interact efficiently with industrial players.
• Support the coding, coverage and payment strategy for US public and private payers.

Public Affairs:

• Participate in working meetings and external events with government departments, industry federations, healthcare professionals' unions and think tanks, in order to strengthen Withings position as a strong stakeholder in health care prevention.

• Actively monitor changes in legislative environments in the Medtech field and analyze impacts and opportunities for Withings.

• Help draft position papers to support Withings’ strategic vision.

Specific areas of responsibilities

• Identify early, transient or derogatory market access pathways for our target markets (France, UK, Germany and US).
• Identify relevant calls for proposals to build the value proposition of our physiological measurements.

• Participate in the development of payer value proposition and the building of country-dependent market access strategies.
• Contribute to public affairs activities
• Contribute to the development of health economic models to overcome reimbursement barriers in Europe and the US.
• Collaborate with stakeholders involved in health technology assessments and contribute to positive coverage decisions by HAS (France), NICE (United Kingdom), G-BA (Germany) and Medicare / US private payers.
• Collaborate with external advisers on obtaining coding, coverage and appropriate payment.
• Externally: institutions, hospitals, physicians, key opinion leaders, trade associations, payers, health technology assessment and evaluation agencies, patients advocacy groups, as well as contracting consultants.
• Internally: corporate management, finance, marketing and sales organization, B2B and clinical and regulatory affairs.

Requirements

• You have a Master's degree (e.g. MS, MPH or MBA) or equivalent preferred
• You have at least a first relevant experience in Medical Device reimbursement projects or consulting exprience.
• You have a demonstrated understanding of the Reimbursement Systems across Europe (or other assigned countries)
• You are autonomous, self-motivated and able to adapt to unexpected events.

• You like to explore, analyze, and build. You are pragmatic and resourceful.

• You already have a solid scientific culture and a thirst for understanding.

• You are creative and think outside the box. You enjoy experimenting with unusual approaches and working on interdisciplinary problems in multidisciplinary teams.

• You are tenacious and have developed a results-oriented culture.

• You will be very good at communicating your ideas and the results of your work, both in writing and orally.

• Fluency in English, both written and spoken, is required. Having similar capabilities in other major European languages is a plus

Benefits

Joining the Withings adventure means :

• Joining one of the world's pioneers and leaders in connected health, winner of several awards at the Consumer Electronic Show,
• Contributing to innovative and ambitious projects for the health of tomorrow in an agile and constantly evolving environment,
• Join an international company, member of the FrenchTech 120, with teams based in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Boston, Hong-Kong and Shenzhen,
• Participate in the continuous improvement of our products and services by beta-testing them before their release, especially during our numerous sports sessions with colleagues,
• Benefit from numerous advantages: Stock Options, smartphone and computer of your choice, discounts for cultural and sports activities, company restaurant, and much more,
• Participate in the Withings Med Academy by attending lectures by healthcare professionals to strengthen your knowledge in the medical field,
• Collaborate with passionate colleagues and celebrate each of our successes together!