Senior - HEOR Medical Writer

IQVIA™ is the leading human data science company focused on helping healthcare clients find unparalleled insights and better solutions for patients. Formed through the merger of IMS Health and Quintiles, IQVIA offers a broad range of solutions that harness the power of healthcare data, domain expertise, transformative technology, and advanced analytics to drive healthcare forward.

Job Description: Senior Consultant – HEOR Medical Writing

Department: EMEA HEOR Team

Location: London, Athens or Amsterdam

The team & the company

IQVIA Real-World Solutions (RWS) is a fast-growing and highly successful consultancy business, focusing upon on delivering tangible business results to our clients who are key decision-makers and business managers across the international pharmaceutical and healthcare industry. With direct access to the world’s most comprehensive healthcare information, analytic and research resources, IQVIA RWS experts deliver deep insights derived from statistical analyses of healthcare data.

The IQVIA Health Economics Outcomes Research (HEOR) team includes around 200 highly qualified multi-disciplinary professionals in a variety of health economics, statistics, life sciences and epidemiology-related disciplines based in 12 geographies and has delivered projects covering over 50 countries. Our Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) HQ is situated in King’s Cross, London.

Our clients operate in the life sciences industry, including global top 20 pharmaceutical companies, medical device and biotech companies, as well as public health providers and regulatory authorities. They are looking for insight and evidence around the safety, efficacy, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of health care delivery systems, medical devices, and pharmaceutical products spanning the full spectrum of therapeutic and disease areas. Our diverse mix of clients, the breath of disease areas, as well as increasing access to novel data sources and methodologies provide a constant and rewarding challenge for our people.

For more information about our company please visit our website: https://www.iqvia.com/

Role purpose

This role will offer you the opportunity to support our EMEA Health Economics team as a senior medical writer and be part of our Health Technology Assessment (HTA) / Global Value Dossier (GVD) Centre of Excellence.

This role focusses on medical writing for HEOR purposes, where you will lead medical writing tasks for HEOR projects and share your knowledge and expertise across the team. Typical projects include medical writing for HTA dossiers (e.g., NICE, SMC, NCPE, etc), GVDs, protocols and reports for literature reviews, evidence synthesis and health economic modelling studies, and HEOR-focused peer-review manuscripts and conference abstracts. The audience for the project deliverables will be various life-sciences customers as well as healthcare payers, providers and regulators. You will work within a team of highly experienced health economists and outcomes research specialists providing support across a range of HEOR projects, working in a cross-functional and cross-country project team, either by providing medical writing, managing project teams, undertaking quality control, or providing advice, training and support to other team members. An ideal candidate will have a good understanding of the matrix structure typical of our clients from the pharmaceutical industry and how to successfully navigate this structure to achieve clients’ aims, as well as proven success in communicating scientific information in a strategic way to optimize a product’s access to markets and reimbursement.

Qualifications and Skills

• Degree in life sciences, epidemiology or health economics and policy, preferably a Master’s degree;
• Significant experience in medical writing, including being the primary writer on peer-reviewed publications and HEOR study reports/protocols;
• Familiarity with health economics and health technology assessment is a requirement;
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills;
• Excellent Microsoft office skills, and high attention to detail;
• Interest in mentoring and coaching others;
• Self-motivated with a strong desire to learn quickly and independently;
• Strong time-management and organisational skills, and flexibility to work in a fast-paced environment;
• Experience with client management;
• Interest in data visualisation and presentation;
• Keen to work as a member of a diverse, multi-cultural team.

Responsibilities

• Write quality HEOR study reports and protocols, HTA/GVD dossiers, manuscripts, conference abstracts;
• Project manage HEOR writing assignments with internal teams including health economists, statisticians, etc.;
• Coordinate and conduct quality control reviews of HEOR documents and maintaining audit trails of changes;
• Support end to end proposal development and actively participate in project budget estimations for HEOR medical writing services;
• Provide input on data analysis planning and interpretation for HEOR and market access purposes;
• Mentor and train less experienced Medical Writers.

Join Us

Making a positive impact on human health takes insight, curiosity, and intellectual courage. It takes brave minds, pushing the boundaries to transform healthcare. Regardless of your role, you will have the opportunity to play an important part in helping our clients drive healthcare forward and ultimately improve outcomes for patients.

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