Medical Writer Consultant for HTA
Medical Writer Consultant for HTA
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The team & the company
IQVIA is a leading global provider of advanced analytics technology solutions and clinical research services to the life sciences industry. IQVIA creates intelligent connections across all aspects of healthcare through its analytics transformative technology big data resources and extensive domain expertise. With direct access to the worlds most comprehensive healthcare information analytics and research resources IQVIA Real World Solutions (RWS) experts design and deliver innovative data and technologyenabled evidence programs to accelerate the clinical development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments that improve healthcare outcomes for patients. IQVIA RWS is a fastgrowing and highly successful consultancy business focusing upon on delivering tangible business results to our clients who are key decisionmakers and business managers across the international pharmaceutical and healthcare industry.
Within the RWS group the IQVIA Europe Middle East Africa (EMEA) Real World Methods and Evidence Generation (RW MEG) team is composed of around 200 highly qualified multidisciplinary professionals from a variety of disciplines including health economics statistics biochemistry and epidemiology based in 12 geographies with projects delivered across >50 countries.
Our clients operate in the life sciences industry including global top 20 pharmaceutical companies medical device and biotech companies as well as public health providers and regulatory authorities. They are looking for insight and evidence around the safety efficacy effectiveness and costeffectiveness of health care delivery systems medical devices and pharmaceutical products spanning the full spectrum of therapeutic and disease areas. Our diverse mix of clients the breadth of disease areas as well as increasing access to novel data sources and methodologies provide a constant and rewarding challenge for our people.
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This role will offer you the opportunity to support our EMEA Health Economics team as a Consultant Medical Writer and be part of our HTA Evidence & Strategy Centre of Excellence and Value Communications Centre of Excellence.
This role focusses on medical writing for HEOR purposes where you will be responsible for writing tasks within HEOR projects and work with a senior team to comanage small workstreams project tasks and thought leadership initiatives.
Typical projects include medical writing for the new EU Joint Clinical Assessment (JCA) dossier HTA dossiers e.g. NICE SMC NCPE etc global value dossiers protocols and reports for literature reviews reports for evidence synthesis and health economic modelling studies and HEORfocused peerreview manuscripts and conference abstracts. The audience for the project deliverables will be various lifesciences customers as well as healthcare payers providers and regulators.
You will work within a team of highly experienced health economists and outcomes research specialists providing support across a range of HEOR projects working in a crossfunctional and crosscountry project team providing medical writing undertaking quality control and contributing to the management of project delivery (including guiding the work of more junior team members). The role will expose the candidate to the broad range of EMEA RWS offerings in value communications HTA strategy and HEOR to support in business development opportunities.
An ideal candidate will have a good understanding of the matrix structure typical of our clients from the pharmaceutical industry and how to successfully navigate this structure to achieve clients aims as well as proven success in communicating scientific information in a strategic way to optimize a products access to markets and reimbursement.
Qualifications and Skills
Previous experience with medical writing is essential for the role. We are looking for proactive individuals with strong analytical and problemsolving skills. Candidates should have a strategic mindset the ability to identify potential issues and suggest solutions. The ideal applicant should have apt interpersonal skills and the ability to establish relationships with both internal team members and clients. As such fluency in conversational and business English is essential. The ability to demonstrate this through slide deck development report writing and presentations is essential.
We recruit individuals from a variety of backgrounds to join our wellrounded team. If you are motivated have a passion for healthcare and strong organisational skills and experience in literature reviews we encourage you to apply. The list below should be viewed as a guide rather than a checklist.
Degree in life sciences (or related) epidemiology or health economics and policy preferably a Masters degree;
Significant experience in medical writing including being the primary writer on peerreviewed publications and HEOR study reports/protocols;
Familiarity with health economics and health technology assessment is a benefit;
Strong written and verbal English communication skills expertise in scientific writing requirements;
Excellent Microsoft office skills (expert in use of MS Word) and high attention to detail;
Selfmotivated with a strong desire to learn quickly and independently ability to work autonomously with appropriate guidance when needed;
Strong timemanagement and organisational skills and flexibility to work in a fastpaced environment;
Interest in data visualisation and presentation;
Keen to work as a member of a diverse multicultural team.
Responsibilities
Write highquality HEOR study reports and protocols HTA/GVD dossiers manuscripts conference abstracts;
Work with senior team to comanage small workstreams project tasks and thought leadership initiatives;
Conduct quality control reviews of HEOR documents and maintaining audit trails of changes;
Mentor and train less experienced Medical Writers;
Contribute to medical writing training initiatives to upskill the team and set quality standards;
Support the teams Centre of Excellence initiatives.
Please submit your CV in English.
Please note that we dont sponsor visa for this role.
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IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at
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