Research Scientist - Patient Preference

Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions
Office

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 others. 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.

Discover Impactful Work:
As a Research Scientist, you will be an independent PI, with scientific and strategic responsibility for preference and/or multi-criteria decision analysis studies (MCDA) projects; delegating project management tasks to more junior scientific staff. You will oversee and participate in a large project portfolio, innovate scientifically, produce output of high scientific quality, and assume significant responsibilities for sales targets and client development. This will be a remote/home based position in the UK.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities
Science

• Leads studies of high scientific quality, presenting scientific work in peer-reviewed journals and at professional meetings.
• Provides scientific leadership to team members, and contributes to the development of the way that preference methods are delivered by the team.

Strategy/Consulting

• Develops and maintains client relationships.
• Identifies scientific methods/plans that help clients meet their goals.
• Helps clients prepare for regulatory meetings and attend regulatory meetings with clients as requested.

Financial & Business Development

• Brings in proposal leads.
• Writes proposals and manages the proposal writing process.
• Closes sales.

Project Management

• Responsible for ensuring client timelines are met.
• Responsible for ensuring project does not exceed contracted budget.

PCR Operations Support

• Supervises mid-level scientific staff.
• Develops and presents internal scientific trainings.
• Participates in staff recruitment efforts (phone screening, interviewing, attending presentations, etc.).
• Conforms to SOPs and other requirements.
• Actively supports new product development and scientific innovation.

Education, Professional Skills & Experience:

• Doctorate in scientific discipline and more than 3-5 years’ experience in relevant field; or
• Master’s degree in scientific discipline and more than 5-7 years’ experience in relevant field.
• MS Word, PPT, Excel; familiarity with SAS or similar data analysis software.
• Deep understanding of health outcomes research/patient preference 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.
• Well-developed communication skills and scientific writing skills.
• Demonstrates strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrates ability to independently manage, oversee, and/or lead a variety of project-related tasks and effectively delegates tasks to project team.
• Demonstrates ability to manage client relationships.
• Collaborative team member, capable of efficient multi-tasking.

Personal Skills & Competencies:

• Deep and demonstrated understanding of preference elicitation techniques, such as discrete choice experiments (DCE), best-worst scaling (BWS), or swing weighting.
• Knowledge of relevant regulatory requirements and guidelines.
• Understanding of the pharmaceutical industry.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to direct a large portfolio of projects in terms of dollar volume and number of projects.
• Able to provide oversight, management, and mentoring to more junior staff.
• Excellent ability to develop and maintain client relationships.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills: scientific, professional, and consulting.
• Ability to develop positive, collegial, and productive relationships with colleagues and clients.
• Excellent time management and logistic skills to be highly effective in a fast-paced, deadline-driven work environment.

Benefits
We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory with PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

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