Senior Consultant, Health Economics Modeling

Location: US (Remote) OR Sweden, NL, UK, Poland (flexible to be in any ICON European location)

This is an opportunity to work for ICON Global Health Economics, Outcomes Research and Epidemiology (GHEORE), a division of ICON plc, an international clinical research organisation headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

We are currently seeking a Senior Epidemiologist with strong technical expertise in observational study design and strong project management skills to join our Epidemiology team.

The Epidemiology team works on a range of disease areas and study designs. We undertake studies to characterize treatment patterns, disease natural history, burden of illness, patient preferences, real-world effectiveness and safety, benefit-risk, and data base mapping.  We use a variety of study designs to obtain these estimates, including prospective and retrospective data collection; analysis of clinical and administrative databases; and systematic literature review. 

The Sr. Epidemiologist will manage projects and is expected to provide expertise relating to the design and conduct of studies, and will contribute to reporting and interpreting the findings.

At ICON we pride ourselves on advancing the science/consultancy interface; we have a strong reputation and publication record for observational, interventional and modeling studies in a wide variety of clinical areas and where appropriate we seek to increase the credibility of our work through peer-reviewed publication.

Role requirements:

• Strong project management skills and serves as the main point of contact for clients
• Ability to manage complex projects
• Technical knowledge of observational study design, and is able to provide support for team members
• Ability to lead a project team
• Preparing study protocols and reports
• Designing data collection forms and data structure for observational studies;

 Additional valuable skills would include:

• Proposal writing, Business development activities
• Contributing to systematic literature reviews
• Mentoring junior team members

Role requirements     

• MSc or PhD in Epidemiology, or related field
• CRO or Pharma experience will be preferred
• Excellent organizational skills including written and verbal communication
• Detail oriented with the ability to multi-task efficiently
• Strong oral and written English communication skills, coupled with strong interpersonal skills
• Strong project management experience