Senior Research Director, Patient Experience – COA Strategy

Thermo Fisher Scientific•Wilmington, NC

60d•Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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

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