Senior Research Director, Patient Experience – Direct to Patient Observational Research

At Thermo Fisher Scientific youll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100 countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio our work spans laboratory digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on now and in the future.

Evideras Patient-Centered Research (PCR) group is responsible for patient experience and insight research to support product development. Our work has helped identify and clarify unmet clinical needs assess burden of illness and evaluate patient outcomes preference and/or adherence while supporting promotional and labeling claims on a global scale. This is a fully remote home based position.

Position Overview:

This role is known internally as Senior Research Leader and is a recognized expert in direct to patient observational studies in particular surveys with high external visibility and strong track record of publications and presentations. Maintains an established line of research and a presence in the research community and expertise and provides senior level mentorship and oversight of junior scientific staff. Contributes to financial performance of the Patient-Centered Research (PCR) organization within Evidera including inputting into business and strategic development.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Research Project Delivery

• Develops and maintains individual research portfolio

• Responsible for ultimate quality of client deliverables

• Responsible for maintaining efficient use of project team resources and delivering within established project budget

• Develops proposals drafting complex steps for scientific integrity to ensure methodological and strategic aspects

Science:

• Serve as internal consultation resource and provides senior level oversight to staff for project work and relevant methods and regulatory issues

• Maintain high external visibility as recognized leader in field through track record of publications and presentations

• Oversees quantitative and qualitative analyses and leads those analyses interprets results and oversees other project staff in completion of related deliverables.

• Drives scientific excellence and innovation throughout the PCR organization

Strategy/Consulting:

• Actively participates in the development of PCR scientific direction and goals

• Provides high level consultation with regulatory bodies and science boards

• Develops innovative science strategies and collaborative projects

• Works across Evidera business units to develop innovative solutions to client issues

• Supports business development through participation in client outreach

Managerial Duties:

• Participates in recruitment process particularly for junior PI level personnel

• May supervise mid-high level scientific staff

• Participate in maintaining the scientific quality of the PCR staff through providing training and through establishing benchmarks of scientific excellence

Education Professional Skills & Experience:

• PhD and 10 years experience orMA and 15 years experience orequivalent thereof in health outcomes and patient-centered research related field which includes significant recent consulting experience with internal and external clients

• Demonstrated track record of delivering on scientific outputs in particular peer review publication

• Strong networking skills will deliver on business development

• MS Word PPT Excel; familiarity with SAS or similar data analysis software

• Ability to lead project teams through innovative complex and collaborative projects

• Ability to work across Evidera business units

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100000 colleagues we share a common set of values - Integrity Intensity Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research solve complex scientific challenges drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory with PPD part of Thermo Fisher Scientific where diverse experiences backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

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