István Somfay

Diagnostics | Pharmaceuticals | Healthcare | Digital | Market Access | Consulting

Switzerland

About

Analytical professional with work experience in healthcare and real estate industries, further enhanced with international exposure. MBA graduate with solid financial and health economic background, focusing on marketing, communication and leadership skills. Interested in market access, strategy or consulting roles in pharmaceutical and healthcare industry.

Experience

  • Roche (8 yrs 9 mos)
    • Global Strategic Pricing Lead
      Oct 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 10 mos

      Roche Diagnostic Solutions Global Access & Policy

    • Market Access Specialist
      Nov 2017 - Oct 2021 · 4 yrs

      Roche Diagnostics Sub Region North-West (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden) • Working for 7 countries in the Subregion North-West Medical & Market Access team. • Performing primary and secondary research to assess the market access landscape for new diagnostic solutions. • Adapting health economic models to support local market access and health economic activities. • Keeping contact with and communicating results to global Business Area and Lifecycle Management teams.

    • Project Coordinator
      Nov 2019 - Jan 2020 · 3 mos

      Roche Diagnostics EMEA-LATAM Region Express development opportunity at EMEA-LATAM Digital Initiatives team Participated in 2 sprint teams working on NAVIFY Tumor Board • Developed customer use cases for the current version of the product to be able to deliver value for customers. • Built content and agenda for the 2020 kick of meeting to motivate, empower and change the mindset of field force to drive their accounts in a challenging year.

  • MBA Candidate at IE Business School
    Sep 2016 - Jul 2017 · 11 mos

    IE Business School’s International MBA program holds the No. 8 position worldwide, as well as being No. 4 in Europe and No. 1 in Spain, in the FT’s 2017 ranking of MBA programs.

  • Project Manager at OptiHealth
    Dec 2015 - Jul 2016 · 8 mos

    • Managed 2 data analysis projects to support client in negotiation of outcome based reimbursement agreement. • Partnered in planning and developing disease specific patient registry system for better therapy control.

  • Analyst at Healthware Consulting
    Nov 2014 - Jul 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos

    • Developed composite indicators to improve therapy efficiency measurements in a disease area. • Prepared burden of disease analysis for a vaccine to highlight need for new prevention program.

  • Analyst at National Healthcare Service Center
    Jun 2014 - Nov 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos

    • Developed country specific Health System Performance Assessment methodology for government. • Advised and coordinated a project developing a software to support policy decision making with data analytics. • Built simulation models in a selected team of experts to predict effect of national health prevention programs. • Project managed workgroup and coordinated tasks with other workgroups.