Job Description
For over thirty years, Cytel has enabled the world’s biotech and pharmaceutical companies to make confident, evidence-based decisions to ensure successful outcomes. As industry leaders in delivering advanced data analytics solutions, we continually invest in deepening our expertise. Now, we have a fully integrated Evidence Value & Access business, with a global team of experts providing industry-leading capabilities in market access, health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) and real-world evidence (RWE). Powered by the unique experience and expertise of our researchers and consultants around the world, we conceptualize and execute HEOR and RWE studies, using advanced quantitative techniques to prepare sponsors for reimbursement submission and to support a product’s clinical and economic value proposition. Our mission is to help unlock the full promise of data – our teams conduct evidence generation and synthesis, economic analyses, and comparative effectiveness studies to generate the evidence to support the overall product value, with our Access team acting as the evidence hub by which we devise strategy and translate evidence into concise value propositions and communications for payers and other external stakeholders.
Job Description
A scientific/strategic contributor with broad expertise and/or unique knowledge in a specific area, and an ability to achieve objectives in creative and effective ways. Typically manages multiple projects within a client or within a specialized area across several clients. Acts as the client’s primary point of contact for engagements, developing mutually beneficial partnerships and taking ownership for the needs of the client.
Responsibilities
Job Responsibilities
- Responsible for independently (most of the time) leading projects (up to 5-6 mid-size projects) involving literature reviews, including systematic literature reviews (SLRs) on various topics and indications
- As project lead, responsible for client communication, overall project management and operations, coordination of project day-to-day activities, and quality of deliverables
- Provide senior-level quality review and methodological guidance to junior team members, supporting technical capability development and ensuring consistent scientific rigor across project deliverables
- Responsible for conducting and leading HTA-compliant and EU-JCA compliant SLR packages
- Master 80% of the techniques used in his/her specialty
- Collaborates closely with other senior members to determine to support business development activities, such as proposal development, project scoping, capabilities/demo presentations
- Responsible for line management and mentoring of 1-2 junior research consultants or research associates
Qualifications
QUALIFICATIONS
Education: Master’s degree in Pharmacology, Biochemistry, Epidemiology, Health Economics or other relevant scientific field. PhD or MD highly desirable.
Experience: 4-5 years of experience at a minimum in the clinical trials or health research or consulting environment. May require additional experience depending on focus area.
Skills
- Thorough understanding of the biopharmaceutical R&D process combined with business acumen.
- Comfortable presenting and interfacing with senior executives within the clients. Strong technical writing, oral communication and presentation skills, excellent use of the English language.
- Interest and familiarity with AI and its use to support literature review, including published guidelines.
- Curious, collaborative, entrepreneurial and self-motivated, without the need for significant infrastructure and support, and with an understanding of the dynamics of high-growth companies; the ability to work effectively in a demanding, challenging, rapidly changing environment.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to gain respect of personnel at all levels and collaborate efficiently within a large team.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, and the ability to execute in complex situations
