Senior Research Leader, Evidera Patient Preference

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Location/Division Specific Information

Evidera’s Patient-Centered Research (PCR) group combines a unique portfolio of scientific fields, including health sciences, psychometrics, epidemiology, psychology, and other. Our work has helped identify and clarify unmet clinical needs, assess burden of illness and evaluate patient outcomes, preference and/or adherence, while supporting promotional and labeling claims on a global scale. This is a fully remote, home based position.

Position Overview: 

Nationally and/or internationally recognized for health preference research 

work with high external visibility and strong track record of publications and presentations. Maintains an established line of research and expertise and provides senior level mentorship and oversight of junior scientific staff. Has broad responsibility for overall financial performance of the Patient-Centered Research (PCR) organization within Evidera and has substantial input into business and strategic development.   

Principal Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions**): 

Project Management 

• Develops and maintains individual portfolio 

• Responsible for ultimate quality of client deliverables 

• Responsible for maintaining efficient use of project team resources and delivering within established project budget 

• Develops proposals, drafting complex steps for scientific integrity to ensure methodological and strategic aspects 

Science 

• Serve as internal consultation resource and provides senior level oversight to staff for project work and relevant methods and regulatory issues 

• Maintain high external visibility as recognized leader in field through track record of publications and presentations 

• Maintain an established line of research and expertise in health preference research

• Oversees quantitative and qualitative analyses and leads those analyses, interprets results, and oversees other project staff in completion of related deliverables.  

• Drives scientific excellence and innovation throughout the PCR organization 

Strategy/Consulting 

• Actively participates in the development of PCR scientific direction and goals 

• Provides high level consultation with regulatory bodies and science boards 

• Develops innovative science strategies and collaborative projects 

• Works across Evidera business units to develop innovative solutions to client issues 

• Financial & Business Development 

• Assumes significant responsibility for sales targets and client development 

• Responsible for financial performance of own projects 

• Takes substantial responsibility for broader PCR financial performance through contribution of leads 

Managerial Duties:  

• Participates in recruitment process – particularly with SRA/RS/SRS level personnel 

• Supervises mid-high level scientific staff 

• Participate in maintaining the scientific quality of the PCR staff through providing training and through establishing benchmarks of scientific excellence 

Education, Professional Skills & Experience  

• PhD and 10+ years’ experience or 

• MA and 15+ years’ experience or 

• Equivalent thereof in health outcomes and patient-centered research related field 

• MS Word, PPT, Excel; familiarity with SAS or similar data analysis software 

• Ability to lead project teams through innovative, complex and collaborative projects 

• Ability to work across Evidera business units 

Personal Skills & Competencies  

Extensive knowledge of pharmaceutical and biotech product development process; extensive knowledge of global regulatory requirements related to health outcomes and patient-centered research and measurement; deep understanding of health outcomes and patient-centered research principles and familiarity with key aspects of the literature (historical and current); advanced level understanding of relevant methodology and statistics; extensive knowledge of practical research implementation; excellent communication skills including professional presentations; ability to critically review literature and contribute successfully to peer-reviewed literature in health outcomes and patient-centered research.  Externally visible leader in health outcomes and patient-centered research field; provides senior consultation to clients. 

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