Associate Director, Health Economics & Outcomes Research (HEOR)

Position Summary

The Associate Director, HEOR is responsible for developing and executing the health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) strategy for Braeburn’s product(s) while working cross-functionally with Market Access, and other Commercial functions. Reporting to the Executive Director, Medical Affairs, this role generates, synthesizes, and communicates economic, humanistic, societal, and real-world evidence that demonstrates the value of Braeburn’s therapies to patients, payers, healthcare professionals, institutional and public-sector settings, policymakers, and other stakeholders across the healthcare system. The ideal candidate is a collaborative team player who pairs deep technical HEOR expertise and strategic thinking with a hands-on, self-directed approach in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.

Specific Duties

• Develop and execute the HEOR strategy for Braeburn’s product(s), ensuring alignment with medical, brand, and market access objectives.
• In partnership with external and internal stakeholders, design, lead, and manage HEOR studies and projects, which may include retrospective database and claims analyses, real-world evidence (RWE) studies, patient-reported outcomes (PRO) research, burden-of-and cost-of-illness studies across various settings including institutional settings.
• Lead the development and updates of economic models-building, commissioning, or overseeing cost-effectiveness, budget impact models, and cost-offset analyses- and translate HEOR findings into payer, public sector, and policymaker value propositions, AMCP dossiers, value communication tools, and objection-handling resources.
• Manage external vendors, consultants, and academic collaborators, overseeing scope, budget, timelines, and the quality of deliverables.
• In close partnership with Scientific Communications, disseminate evidence through peer-reviewed publications, scientific congress abstracts and posters, and internal and external presentations.
• Serve as the HEOR subject-matter expert for cross-functional teams and, as requested, in external interactions with payers, institutional and public health agencies, policymakers, and key opinion leaders.
• Gather and synthesize insights and monitor the external OUD, addiction medicine, behavioral health, and criminal justice landscape to anticipate evidence needs.
• Ensure all HEOR activities comply with applicable scientific standards and legal, regulatory, and compliance requirements.
• Identify and pilot opportunities to apply AI/ML to improve the speed, scale, and rigor of evidence generation and synthesis.

Skills

• Strong technical expertise in HEOR methods, including health economics, epidemiology, biostatistics, real-world data and claims analysis, patient-reported outcomes, and economic modeling.
• Demonstrated ability to design and execute observational and RWE studies and to interpret