Senior Director, HEOR Biostatistician

Summary

Join EVERSANA as a Biostatistics Lead in HEOR, leading a team of professionals and managing a wide range of projects. You will be responsible for project strategy, client development, and team management, requiring strong statistical skills and experience in health economics and outcomes research. This remote position, based in the UK, Ireland, Switzerland, Poland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, or Germany, demands proven leadership and problem-solving abilities. You'll contribute to business development, oversee quality control, and participate in company strategy. The role involves some travel and requires strong communication and collaboration skills.

Requirements

• MSc or PhD university degree in a medical- or mathematics-related field such as biology, epidemiology, pharmacology, health economics, or statistics
• 8 to 10 years of relevant work experience in health research, biostatistics, health economics, or a related field
• Strong understanding in HEOR statistics methods, including but not limited to, indirect comparisons (e.g., NMA, MAIC), propensity score matching (PSM) methods, RWE and/or clinical trial individual patient data (IPD) analyses, Bayesian statistical methods, and other related HTA statistical approaches
• Proven track record for HEOR and evidence synthesis statistical methods
• Proven ability to problem solve with strong capabilities in identifying and implementing practical and creative solutions to difficult problems
• Proven success working with a wide range of RWD projects including design, strategy, execution, and communication
• Excellent understanding and practical use of coding language, most importantly being R code (other examples: WinBugs, OpenBugs)
• Experience creating business developments and/or proposal development
• Technically competent with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills
• Strong strategic, critical thinking, analytical, problem-solving, and multitasking capabilities
• Ability to lead project teams and client meetings
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a sometimes high-pressure environment
• Ability to adapt to shifting internal and client-related priorities/timelines
• Ability to manage personal and project team members’ time across multiple competing projects
• Ability to work independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Ability to effectively interact and communicate with peers, senior management, and clients
• Ability to effectively supervise, train, and mentor junior employees
• Ability to provide strategy for and advice on other team projects
• Proven leadership, team-building, and mentoring skills
• Proven customer focus, with the ability to maintain strong business relationships with clients
• Awareness of and ability to communicate CRG’s services and offerings
• Awareness of currents trends in the fields of health economics, statistics, data analytics and evidence synthesis, and/or medical writing

Responsibilities

• Lead a growing group of professionals trained in biostatistics related to HEOR
• Delegate activities to, and supervise, junior staff and contractors
• Empowering project team members to take positive action and accountability
• Identifying and resolving issues/conflicts within project teams
• Providing effective mentorship to new employees and as needed to other employees
• Administering three-month reviews, summer check-ins, and annual reviews
• Developing, administering, and monitoring performance improvement plan
• Setting project strategy and scope for a range of HEOR biostatistics project types
• Proactively managing changes in project scope and challenges
• Leading development of proposals and delivering them to clients
• Developing own client base
• Comfortable leading all client meetings without senior support
• Supporting business development (e.g., through capabilities, repeat business)
• Seeking feedback regarding client satisfaction
• Providing strategy leadership to help efficiently grow the biostatistics team
• Leading HEOR biostatistics thought leadership initiatives (e.g., white papers, publications)
• Overseeing/implementing quality control activities
• Identifying the need for and development of best practices and tools for project execution, project and employee management, and training
• Contributing to/making decisions regarding company direction, staffing, and workload
• Participating in hiring process (e.g., creating/refining job ads, reviewing applications, conducting screening and full interviews)
• Attending regular management meetings to discuss proposals, project status, staff allocation and needs, project conflicts, and other operational activities
• All other duties as assigned

Benefits

Remote work