Manager, Real World Evidence (EU/UK locations)

We have an exciting opportunity for a Manager to join our Real World Evidence group. The role can be home or office based in one of our EU/UK locations.

A Manager provides leadership and direction to associates, consultants and senior consultants, actively managing employee performance and development. A Manager acts as a role model and provides or organizes coaching/mentoring and feedback to direct reports. A Manager provides a broad range of consulting services -and develops a skilled team of individuals able to combine strategic thinking with clear, accurate, and concise communication.

Main accountabilities: Line manage a project team of analysts to ensure timely delivery of projects to a high standard. Provide technical leadership and training to more junior staff within the team, and ensure own skills are up to date; contribute to thought leadership initiatives. Managing client communications, and ensuring projects are delivered on budget. Including project planning and execution. Coordinate real-world data collection processes from sites and data register. Apply data analytics to support research projects and collaborations within the team. This will include supervising the conduct of statistical analyses, analytic datasets creation, and performing quality control. Leading development study protocols, statistical analysis plans and coaching the team through the analytical work process, specifically determining data structures and statistical coding algorithms. Follow comprehensive quality checking and validation processes. Develop study protocols and define analytical variables collaboratively with external research scientists and biostatisticians. Continuously develop existing processes to make more efficient and higher quality. Control project out-of-scope activities with clients and manage contracting of change-in-scope. QualificationsIdeal candidate will possess: A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in a Life science. Fluent English and excellent communication skills. Documented people people-management experience. ~ 8 years’ experience working with in real-world evidence, with particular emphasis on large relational databases, processing large administrative healthcare datasets (medical and pharmacy claims), and or clinical databases. (Electronic Health Records), creating final analytical databases, conducting secondary data analyses, and developing research study designs. Recent Pharmaceutical/CRO experience preferred. Experience in Real World Evidence, epidemiology, or register studies. Past experience in the development of real world evidence proposals is an advantage. Demonstrated evidence of publications will be viewed favorably.