Epidemiology Consultant

Lane Clark & Peacock LLP.; London, Winchester; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting firm specializing in health analytics is seeking an experienced professional to lead the design, analysis, and reporting of studies using healthcare data. The ideal candidate will have a health-related Masters or PhD in epidemiology, strong project management skills, and a commitment to delivering quality service. This role offers hybrid working and an attractive benefits package.

Benefits

Hybrid working

Professional study support

Life assurance

Income protection

Private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in a relevant role, including experience in a Consultancy or CRO environment.
• Excellent grounding in relevant methods.
• Experience in real world data from the US, UK, major EU markets and Japan.
• Excellent communication skills and organisational skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of real world evidence studies.
• Oversee and review the work of team members.
• Contribute to developing advanced methods capabilities.

Skills

Epidemiology

Project management

Technical writing

R programming

Python

Education

Health related Masters or PhD in epidemiology or related specialty

Job description

Hybrid working - MINIMUM of 2 days per week (40%) in office with Tuesday as the team day

In 2020 LCP launched our Heath Analytics practice, providing analytical and research services for organisations across the life sciences and healthcare industries. Our team brings together scientists, HEOR experts, market access specialists, epidemiologists, clinicians, and health data specialists alongside our established actuarial, analytics and technology teams to deliver new solutions for the fundamental challenges in health.

Over the past five years we have built a track record for leading approaches to real world evidence generation, health economic modelling, literature reviews and statistical analysis, market access strategy and innovative reimbursement design. We have been growing the team quickly in response to the demand we are seeing for the service offerings we have developed and now have a team of over 50 people working across three service areas of evidence generation, HEOR, and market access.

Our team’s mission is to help move health systems from importers of illness to exporters of health and to support our clients to deliver value to patients. This is underpinned by our approach to support clients to improve the population’s health and reduce inequalities.

What's the role?

This is an opportunity for you to join a dynamic team at an exciting time in its growth and growing international presence. As an experienced hire this is also an opportunity to help shape the growth and development of the team.

You will play a key role in the design, analysis and reporting of studies using real world healthcare data, such as electronic healthcare records, registries and claims databases. We are looking for someone who can bring a high level of scientific rigor, is motivated to work at the cutting edge of methods and RWE study designs and is committed to going the extra mile for our clients.

Experience in a consulting or CRO is crucial and we are looking for you to provide excellent service to our clients through both technical expertise and delivery/project management excellence.

Examples of the types of projects that we undertake for our clients include:

• Real world evidence studies using electronic healthcare records, registries, biobanks and databases, using global RWD sources
• Advanced study designs including external comparators and quantitative bias analysis
• Innovative approaches to identifying and quantifying unmet need and inequalities
• Studies addressing post authorisation regulatory commitments and other analyses supporting health authority questions
• Manuscript writing

What will you be doing?

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Demonstrate a high level of technical expertise in epidemiology
• Lead aspects of the design and delivery of RWE studies, including:
  • Study design
  • Protocol development
  • Project management
  • Quality control
  • Report and manuscript writing
• Oversee and review the work of other members of the team and support their development, including:
  • Contribution to team learning and development
  • Contribution to the development of internal resources, tools and processes
• Contribute to developing advanced methods capabilities in this space
• Demonstrate and develop your expertise by contributing to thought leadership activities

What experience, skills and qualities do you require?

• Demonstrable experience in a relevant role, including experience in a Consultancy or CRO environment, combined with a health related Masters or PhD in epidemiology or a related speciality
• An excellent grounding in relevant methods with demonstrated experience in conceptualising and delivering previous studies and projects
• Experience in real world data from the US, UK, major EU markets and Japan
• Experienced in project management, leading multidisciplinary teams and the execution of high-quality scientific work
• Excellent communication skills, including technical writing and presentation skills, as well as having the ability to explain complex issues to others
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to multi-task across different across client projects, project management of client engagements, and the mentoring and coordination of others in the team
• Programming experience in R or Python and experience working with generative AI systems and tools is desirable
• Initiative and creativity
• Ability and desire to thrive in a growing and dynamic team
• Experience of designing or carrying out studies to meet post authorisation regulatory commitments or evaluating risk minimisation measures is desirable

What’s in it for you?

Take a look at our Glassdoor and Career stories pages to see why our people love being here! As well as joining a multi-award winning, fun, collaborative, people first organisation where your personal and professional skills will be developed to make you the best you can be, we offer an attractive benefits package designed to promote your overall wellbeing so that you are able to perform to your full potential both in and out of work. Currently our core benefits package includes:

For you:

• Hybrid working (see top of the advert for details)
• Professional study support (where applicable)
• Access to our internal Wellbeing, LGBTQ+, Multicultural and Women’s networks

For your family:

• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption and shared parental leave

For your health:

• 26 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time working) plus bank holidays (most of which can be taken flexibly!) with options to buy & sell holiday
• Private medical insurance
• Discounted gym memberships, critical illness and dental insurance through our flexible benefits
• Cycle to work scheme
• Digital GP services

For your wealth:

• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Season ticket loans

For others:

• Volunteering opportunities

For the environment:

• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme (qualifying period applies)

And much more!

We continuously strive to build an inclusive workplace where all forms of diversity are valued, including age, background, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or sexual orientation.

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