Senior Health Economist

Costello Medical•Vancouver, BC

47d•$95,000 - $100,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Do you have experience in successfully conceptualizing, developing and communicating health economic models that demonstrate the value of new healthcare interventions in the Canadian setting? Do you enjoy building and maintaining client relationships? Are you looking to join a growing company offering excellent career prospects? As a Senior Health Economist at Costello Medical, you will play a key role within project teams to ensure work is delivered to an exceptionally high quality and in line with client expectations. This includes providing strategic advice to clients from model conceptualization through to interpretation of results, training more junior members of our Health Economics team, and delivering technical work yourself to progress your own modelling skills. There may also be opportunities to line manage Health Economist Interns to develop your mentorship skills. Our Health Economics team delivers modelling projects to a broad range of pharmaceutical and MedTech companies as well as public sector and non-profit organizations. You will work across different client accounts in many different disease areas and should therefore be able to familiarise yourself with new disease areas and model structures quickly. The ideal candidate would also have direct experience in the delivery of health economic models for Canadian HTA submissions to Canada’s Drug Agency (CDA-AMC) and Institut national d'excellence en santé et en services sociaux (INESSS), as well as global and US model development, given our Canadian team will support on global, Canadian, and US projects. As a founding member of our Health Economics team in the North American region, you will also play a key role in contributing to business development by developing and maintaining excellent client relationships and identifying opportunities to provide additional services to clients within projects. Senior Health Economists are supported to progress to the Consultant Health Economist role, and this can typically be achieved in 1 to 2 years. As a Consultant Health Economist, you would have ultimate responsibility for the high-quality delivery of a range of projects, and lead in business development efforts to win new work and maintain and grow your own client relationships. In addition to project management, you would line manage team members and have internal responsibilities spanning areas such as recruitment and training.

Requirements

Working on health economic projects, for example cost-effectiveness models or budget impact models, directly with clients, from project initiation to completion
Leading a project team, including delegating tasks and managing the time of others coupled with the ability to manage timelines across multiple projects at once and the flexibility to respond to changing deadlines
A proven ability to build robust and sustainable client relationships, which involves communicating directly with clients and responding to different communication styles
A degree level or higher qualification in a relevant discipline (minimum 3.3 GPA). Relevant disciplines are those that demonstrate a high level of technical and mathematical ability, such as mathematics, economics, physics or computer science. Formal degree-level or higher (i.e. postgraduate) training in statistics or health economic modelling is desirable, though not required
Experience with developing health economic models for submission to HTA bodies, such as the CDA-AMC or INESSS
Excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to explain complex modelling techniques and results to non-experts
Advanced skills in Excel and VBA
The ability to use your initiative and work independently, in addition to working collaboratively within project teams
A high degree of accuracy and attention to detail
Flexibility to respond to changing deadlines

Nice To Haves

Prior experience of having mentored others in any setting
Experience with other software (such as R, C++, STATA) alongside a willingness to learn new technical and programming skills is important for the role
An aptitude for business development, a strong sense of initiative, and the willingness to build a small team with support and guidance from senior colleagues