[Hiring] Director, Patient-Centered Outcomes @Lumanity

Role Description

Lumanity’s Patient-Centered Outcomes (PCO) team is seeking an experienced patient-centered outcomes research professional to serve as our Director of Patient-Centered Outcomes.

As Director, you will be responsible for providing strategic and scientific guidance to internal (i.e., Lumanity project teams) and external (i.e., clients) stakeholders on various projects related to clinical outcome assessments (COAs), including but not limited to:

• Literature reviews
• Gap analyses
• COA development
• Embedded interviews
• Natural history survey research
• Regulatory and endpoint strategy

Working closely with all project team members, you will also supervise more junior staff.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Apply research to meet clients’ needs, including providing clients with strategic guidance on COA strategy in the context of drug development
• Review project deliverables (e.g., study protocols, study reports, client presentations) to ensure quality
• Support business development efforts by building relationships with new and existing clients, bringing in new leads, and writing proposals for PCO projects
• Manage projects as needed, including developing plans to accomplish all activities within project scope and timelines, delegating project tasks to project teams and leading client meetings
• Contribute to training and mentoring of more junior staff

You will also be expected to present at scientific conferences and/or publish in peer-reviewed journals to further the patient preference research field and demonstrate Lumanity’s capabilities. The individual in this role will also be responsible for an annual business development target.

Qualifications

• An undergraduate degree in health-related field required (master’s or doctorate degree in a health-related field preferred)
• At least 8 years previous relevant work experience with increasing levels of responsibility in the field of patient-centered outcomes
• Comprehensive knowledge of the drug development process and regulatory guidelines pertaining to patient-centered outcomes
• Excellent English oral and written communication skills and comfort liaising with technical and non-technical clients (both internally and externally)
• Experience in consulting
• Published work in peer-reviewed journals and/or presented at conferences

• Experience with economic evaluations and HTA submissions, including but not limited to literature reviews, gap analyses, documenting the humanistic burden of disease, utility elicitation, patient preference studies and global value dossier development (preferred but not essential)
• Mastery of technical skills in at least some of the following areas: expert elicitation, conjoint analysis, contingent valuation, discrete choice experiments, best-worst scaling, time trade-off and standard gamble methods (preferred but not essential)

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Bonus
• Pension
• Private Healthcare
• Dental Cover
• Enhanced Eye Care Cover
• Electric Car Scheme
• Staggered working hours