Health Economist (Consultant)

Location - London or Winchester with a MINIMUM of 2 days per week (40%) in the office with Tuesday as the team day

In 2020 LCP launched our Heath practice, providing analytical and research services for organisations across the life sciences and healthcare industries. Our team brings together, health economists, statisticians, market access specialists, epidemiologists, clinicians, and health data scientists alongside our established actuarial, analytics and technology teams to deliver new solutions for the fundamental challenges in health.

We have built a track record for leading approaches to real world evidence generation, health economic modelling, and innovative reimbursement design. We have been growing the team quickly in response to the demand we are seeing for the service offerings we have developed and now have a team of over 50 people working across four service areas of evidence generation, HEOR, market access, and integrated omics.

Our team’s mission is to help move health systems from importers of illness to exporters of health and to support our clients to deliver value to patients. This is underpinned by our approach to support clients to improve the population’s health and reduce inequalities.

Our work

LCP’s Health team works across the healthcare and life sciences markets, combining health expertise with innovative approaches from our work in other sectors to tackle leading health issues. Joining LCP’s Health team will provide you with opportunities to work on a range of projects based on your interests and skillset.

Examples of the types of projects that we undertake for our clients include:

• Estimating the cost effectiveness or budget impact of interventions using traditional HTA methods but also more holistically from both patients and health systems perspectives. Associated activities include:
  • Model conceptualisation and input into evidence generation strategies
  • Model programming including supporting input sourcing and statistical analysis
  • Model validation and expert elicitation
  • Reporting/publications
• Risk prediction and modelling
• Forecasting disease burden, healthcare demand (e.g., analysis of waiting list data) and cost
• Innovative approaches to identifying and quantifying unmet need and inequalities
• Market access landscape and strategy
• Data landscaping and evidence generation strategy
• Real world evidence studies using electronic healthcare records, registries, biobanks and databases
• Design and simulation of reimbursement models including outcome-based agreements

What will you be doing?

As Consultant in LCP’s Health team you will be involved in a diverse range of projects, covering both client and non-client work. Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Lead projects day-to-day including coordination and project management of internal delivery teams alongside client-facing coordination of projects
• Design solutions to the complex problems our clients in the healthcare and life sciences industry face and present these solutions in an accessible manner
• Demonstrate a high level of expertise in health economic approaches and methods
• People responsibilities including the line management and development of less experienced members of the team, depending on your experience and interest

What skills, experience and qualities are we looking for?

Essential:

• Demonstrable, relevant experience in a Health Economics role in a consultancy environment
• A minimum 2:1 degree in a numerate or science subject, and a health-related Masters degree or PhD (Health Economics, Statistics, Public Health, Epidemiology, Data Science)
• Excellent grounding in Health Economics with demonstrated experience in conceptualising and delivering a range of health economic analyses
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (written and oral) with the ability to explain complex issues to others
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills, highly competent in the use of Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Initiative in every aspect of your work and creativity in developing original solutions to problems
• Comfortable leading on day-to-day project activities and managing the workload of less experienced team members
• Agility to be able to work as part of a dynamic, growing team seeking to advance methods and leverage evolving technology, e.g., AI
• Comfortable engaging in a variety of project types, including across market access and evidence generation as needed with appropriate support
• Comfortable managing a fluctuating workload including regular multi-tasking across client projects, project management of client engagements, and the mentoring and coordination of less experienced team members
• Commitment to consistently delivering high quality work for clients which may, from time to time, require extra hours to be worked

Desirable:

• Programming experience in R or Python
• Experience in methods for external comparator arms (e.g. MAIC and similar methods)
• Experience working on HTA submissions
• Experience undertaking statistical analyses (e.g., survival analysis, utility analysis) to support economic evaluation
• Experience in business development activities, including proposal writing and pitch presentations

What’s in it for you?

Take a look at our and Career stories pages to see why our people love being here! As well as joining a certified B-Corp, multi-award winning, fun, collaborative, people first organisation where your personal and professional skills will be developed to make you the best you can be, we offer an attractive benefits package designed to promote your overall wellbeing so that you are able to perform to your full potential both in and out of work. Currently our core benefits package includes:

For you:

• Hybrid working (see top of the advert for details)
• Professional study support (where applicable)
• Access to our internal Wellbeing, LGBTQ+, Multicultural and Women’s networks

For your family:

• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption and shared parental leave

For your health:

• 26 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time working) plus bank holidays (most of which can be taken flexibly!) with options to buy & sell holiday
• Private medical insurance
• Discounted gym memberships, critical illness and dental insurance through our flexible benefits
• Eye care vouchers
• Cycle to work scheme
• Digital GP services

For your wealth:

• Competitive pension scheme
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• High street discounts
• Season ticket loans

For others:

• Volunteering opportunities

For the environment:

• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme (qualifying period applies)

And much more!

We continuously strive to build an inclusive workplace where all forms of diversity are valued, including age, background, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or sexual orientation.

LCP is committed to making our opportunities accessible to all and welcome you getting in touch to let us know if an adjustment can be made to help with your application. This may be extra time for assessments, pre-interview site visits, interview structure or questions, or asking us about building accessibility. Whatever it may be, please get in touch via our dedicated email address - to discuss how we can support you with your application.

Recruitment agencies

LCP operates a Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for recruitment agencies which is reviewed annually. We do not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from agencies who are not part of our current PSL. LCP only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place, and the agency has been instructed by a member of our recruitment team to supply CVs via the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) for a legitimate, open vacancy. If this process is not adhered to, LCP reserve the right to contact these candidates directly and have discussions with them without paying any agency fees. We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles are submitted to any employee or Partner at LCP.