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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.

Evidera’s Patient-Centered Research (PCR) group is responsible for patient experience and insight research to support product development. 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: 

This role is known internally as Senior Research Leader and will be a recognized expert in Clinical Outcome Assessments (COA) strategy with high external visibility and strong track record of publications and presentations. Maintains an established line of research and a presence in the research community and expertise and provides senior level mentorship and oversight of junior scientific staff. Contributes to financial performance of the Patient-Centered Research (PCR) organization within Evidera including inputting into business and strategic development.   

Principal Duties and Responsibilities: 

Research Project Delivery

Develops and maintains individual research 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 

Supports business development through participation in client outreach

Managerial Duties:  

Participates in recruitment process – particularly for junior PI level personnel

May supervise 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 which includes significant recent consulting experience with internal and external clients

Demonstrated track record of delivering on scientific outputs, in particular, peer review publication

Strong networking skills, will deliver on business development

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

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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