Senior Principal, ICO

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We are looking for passionate, resilient, and inspiring individuals to join our 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, disease transmission, relative efficacy, real-world effectiveness and safety, and benefit-risk. 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 Principal serves as the, project director and/or scientific advisor for Epidemiology projects, taking responsibility for the scientific integrity of the research. The Principal also supports the overall Epidemiology Practice business strategy, including business development and client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Travel (approximately 20%) domestic and/or international.
• Proactively and independently expands knowledge base on Epidemiologic research methods, and those related to observational study data collection, and follows applicable research trends and best practices
• Efficiently manages own workload with respect to project scope, timelines and quality
• Continually cultivates, develops and maintains positive business relationships with other functional teams and departments within ICON
• Proactively communicates Epidemiology objectives and results with clients, leadership team and all functional partners
• Directs team on data gathering efforts. Selects deliverables, tools & techniques to be applied by the team to conduct the analysis. Learns and draws on new analytic approaches
• Develops strategies for solving scientific/technical problems for Clients and within the Practice
• Provides methodological and strategic support and advice to other branches of ICO and ICON Clinical Research
• Provides guidance on technical issues related to study design and bias minimization, and analytic planning.
• Acts as scientific thought partner with the client and the project team throughout the project
• Reviews and approves final drafts of project deliverables (e.g., protocols, analysis plans, reports, data tables, and literature search strategies) to ensure they are of a high standard suitable for release to the client
• Coaches junior staff in the application of research methodologies related to the collection, analysis and reporting of observational/'real-world' data
• Initiates and nurtures client relationships and maintains contacts to build reputation and deal flow
• Regularly pursues new business opportunities and leads the organization to meet changing client needs; responsible for teams' alignment and support of BD efforts
• Key account lead for a combination of current and prospective clients
• Independently develops project plans and scientific content in proposals and achieves good conversion rate of submitted and won proposals
• Serves as KOL on project methodology, project risk and project execution
• Represents Epidemiology at internal and external meetings and strategy review presentations/overviews
• Maintains positive client contact, serves as escalation path for unresolved issues as necessary, and initiates client dialogue and updates on project progress
• Develops a comprehensive set of sound recommendations on scientific methods and approaches that help clients meet their goals as well as identify those that will not help clients meet their goals. Prioritizes recommendations based on ease of implementation and expected impact
• Regularly contributes to external efforts such as International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE), International Society of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research (ISPOR), DIA, and other fora for training and business development
• Anticipates key project risks. Proactively develops and executes mitigating strategies effectively as required
• Owns one or more strategic functional areas within the Epidemiology business
• Builds team morale, including across offices. Actively draws in others beyond immediate team to contribute expertise
• Ensures that communication across the team is highly effective, including across offices
• Leads staff development of proficiency in department or function-specific software and identifies training needs as appropriate
• Complies with all relevant SOPs, work programming, time-keeping, iLearns, policies and procedures
• Provides mentoring and/or supervision and is involved with managing staff development
• Provides overall leadership within the ICON Epidemiology Practice through hands-on guidance and support