Healthcare Survey Research & Pharma Insights Expert [$140/hr]
Experienced healthcare market research, survey methodology, and pharmaceutical insights professionals who have designed, programmed, fielded, reviewed, or advised on healthcare survey instruments, particularly research involving physicians, patients, or other healthcare professionals
Role Responsibilities
- Design, review, and refine physician and patient survey instruments for pharmaceutical and healthcare research
- Translate research objectives into clear, methodologically sound questionnaires
- Evaluate screeners, eligibility criteria, question wording, response scales, survey flow, branching/skip logic, and overall instrument structure
- Identify leading, ambiguous, overly technical, or otherwise problematic questions
- Ensure questionnaires are appropriately constructed for physician, specialist, PCP, and patient audiences
- Review survey length, respondent burden, ordering effects, recall requirements, and potential sources of measurement bias
- Assess whether questions will generate reliable, interpretable, and decision-useful data
- Incorporate pharmaceutical and healthcare market-research conventions into survey design
- Collaborate with therapeutic-area specialists to ensure questions are clinically accurate and appropriately framed
- Where qualified, independently review both the research methodology and therapeutic-area content of an instrument
- Provide clear written explanations and actionable recommendations for survey improvements
Looking For
Candidates May Come From Backgrounds Including
- Healthcare / pharmaceutical market research
- Healthcare consumer insights
- Pharmaceutical primary market research
- Survey methodology
- Quantitative healthcare research
- Patient or physician research
- Behavioural science
- Healthcare consulting
- Medical communications or research
- Life-sciences insights and analytics
- Patient experience / patient insights
Relevant Titles May Include
- Healthcare Market Research Manager / Director
- Pharmaceutical Market Researcher
- Primary Market Research Manager
- Consumer / Patient Insights Manager
- Healthcare Insights Consultant
- Survey Researcher / Survey Methodologist
- Quantitative Researcher
- Research Director
- Healthcare Research Consultant
- Behavioural Scientist
- Patient Insights Lead
- HCP Insights Lead
- Commercial Insights Manager / Director
- Medical Insights Researcher
Good Candidature
- 3+ years of professional experience in healthcare, pharmaceutical, life-sciences, or medically focused research
- Hands-on experience developing or fielding surveys involving physicians, patients, HCPs, or other healthcare stakeholders
- Strong command of questionnaire design and survey methodology
- Understanding of physician research considerations such as speciality screening, patient-volume qualification, treatment behaviour, prescribing patterns, treatment pathways, and clinical terminology
- Experience with patient surveys and concepts such as diagnosis history, treatment experience, symptoms, quality of life, adherence, and patient journey research is valuable
- Familiarity with pharmaceutical market research, commercial insights, medical affairs research, or related life-sciences research environments
- Experience with platforms such as Qualtrics, Decipher/Forsta, Alchemer, SurveyMonkey, or similar tools is helpful but not required
- Excellent written reasoning and ability to provide precise methodological feedback
Therapeutic-Area Experience
Expertise in one or more therapeutic areas is highly valuable, with immediate interest in:
- Oncology particularly prostate cancer
- Gastroenterology particularly ulcerative colitis / inflammatory bowel disease
- Neurology particularly migraine and headache disorders
- Pulmonology / Respiratory Medicine particularly COPD
Additional pharmaceutical therapeutic-area expertise is welcome as future surveys will span other indications.
