Senior Principal, Patient Preference

Senior Principal, Patient Preference

ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation. From molecule to medicine, we advance clinical research providing outsourced services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and government and public health organisations.

With our patients at the centre of all that we do, we help to accelerate the development of drugs and devices that save lives and improve quality of life.

Our people are our greatest strength, are at the core of our culture, and the driving force behind our success. ICON people have a mission to succeed and a passion that ensures what we do, we do well.

ICON plc is looking for a Senior Principal – Preference Research to join our collaborative team environment with a goal to deliver the most scientifically robust, patient relevant, solutions at the right time, elevating the patient voice and ensuring patients’ access to innovative therapies and improving lives.

You will join ICON’s market-leading Patient-Centered Outcomes (PCO) experts as part of ICON’s Global Health Economics, Outcomes Research and Epidemiology (GHEORE) practice. GHEORE sits within ICON's Commercialization and Outcomes division, a market leader providing a range of services to the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device industries spanning Clinical Outcomes Assessments (COA), Health Economics, Preference Research, Epidemiology, Pricing & Market Access, Translations and Linguistic Validation, Medical Communications and Real World Evidence..

Location Options:

Candidates can be based anywhere across the Europe or the US . This role can be either office or remote based.

Summary:

As Senior Principal, you will be the Head of our Patient Preference Centre of Excellence as part of ICON Patient Centered Outcomes (PCO). Our PCO group undertakes consultancy projects for international clients in both the pharmaceutical and medical device sectors, supporting development of medicines and clinical trials.

The work of the PCO group focuses on patient-centered research, including health related quality of life, disease signs and symptoms, treatment preference, adherence and satisfaction. The group is respected globally for the quality and innovation of their applied qualitative and quantitative work. Much of their work involves Clinical Outcome Assessment (COA) measurement development and evaluation including conducting patient interviews and focus groups and qualitative analysis.

Highlights of Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a scientific thought partner with the client and the project team throughout the project
• Identify and apply leading edge tools/techniques and develops new and insightful analytic approaches within patient preference
• Leading a team focused on preference elicitation and multi criteria decision analysis.
• Develop endpoint reviews that include consolidating evidence, identifying gaps, and proposals on how to address gaps
• Review and finalize project deliverables and ensures study findings are valid and reliable and presented in a manner that is up to a high standard
• Independently develop project plans and scientific content in proposals and achieves good conversion rate of submitted and won proposals
• Serve as KOL on project methodology, project risk and project execution
• Develop 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
• Lead interactions with clients in the pharma/biotech/medical device industries
• Initiate and nurture client relationships and maintains contacts to build reputation and deal flow
• Contribute to shaping business strategy and new product/service development
• Regularly pursue new business opportunities and leads the organization to meet changing client needs; responsible for teams’ alignment and support of BD efforts
• Represent PCO at internal and external meetings and strategy review presentations/overviews
• Regularly contribute to external efforts such as International Society of Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL), International Society of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research (ISPOR), CPATH, DIA, FDA initiatives, National Institute of Health (NIH) initiatives etc.

Requirements:

• Significant proven industry experience in a similar role. Extensive academic research experience in a related methodology may offset some of this work experience
• Direct experience leading a diverse set of bespoke outcomes research studies in collaboration with pharma / biotech / medical device study teams or CRO Clinical Operations divisions
• Demonstrated experience in consulting
• Demonstrated advanced scientific leadership experience and directing project teams
• Assesses whether instruments are fit-for-purpose with particular attention to content validity and psychometric properties specific to context of use.
• Master’s degree in outcomes research or related discipline, PhD strongly preferred.

Skill Requirements

• Experience within the patient preference research landscape
• Able to efficiently direct teams on data gathering effort 
• Able to lead team in formulating, articulating and prioritizing key conclusions
• Demonstrated ability to work well within diverse project teams
• Excellent communication and scientific writing skills, as demonstrated by peer-reviewed publications, technical reports, or other scholarly work
• Articulate and persuasive. Draws information well from others
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to analyze project risks, define mitigation actions of identified risks, and apply lessons learned across projects and during the proposal development stage.
• Able to successfully communicate with and advise clients

Benefits of Working in ICON:

Our success depends on the knowledge, capabilities and quality of our people. That’s why we are committed to developing our employees in a continuous learning culture – one where we challenge you with engaging work and where every experience adds to your professional development.

At ICON, our focus is to provide you with a comprehensive and competitive total reward package that comprises, not only an excellent level of base pay, but also a wide range of variable pay and recognition programs.  In addition, our best in class employee benefits, supportive policies and wellbeing initiatives are tailored to support you and your family at all stages of your career - both now, and into the future.

ICON, including subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer and is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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