Senior RWE Scientist (Consultant)

Location - London or Winchester with hybrid working available. In-office time as per departmental requirements, currently a MINIMUM of 2 days per week (40%)

Our Heath Analytics practice provides analytical and research services for organisations across the life sciences and healthcare industries. Our team brings together clinicians, statisticians, epidemiologists, health economists, bioinformaticians and health data scientists alongside our established actuarial, analytics and technology teams to deliver new solutions to the fundamental challenges in health.

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. We have developed a track record for leading approaches to real world evidence generation, drug safety, health economic modelling, evidence strategy and market access, growing the team quickly in response to the demand we are seeing for the service offerings we have developed.

What's the role and who are we looking for?

We are looking for a new team member who can bring a high level of scientific rigor, is motivated to work at the cutting edge of methods and RWE, and is committed to going the extra mile for our clients. You will play a key role in the design, analysis and reporting of studies using real world healthcare data, such as electronic healthcare records, registries and claims databases. We work with data sources from many countries but experience in real world data from the US, UK, major EU markets and Japan is desirable, as is experience of designing or carrying out studies to meet post authorisation regulatory commitments or evaluating risk minimisation measures. This is an excellent opportunity for you to join a dynamic team at an exciting time in its growth and growing international presence. As an experienced hire, you will also have an opportunity to help shape the growth and development of the team.

Please note, to be considered for this position, you must have experience in a consulting role or a CRO. Regrettably, applications that are unable to demonstrate this experience will not be considered.

LCP’s Health Analytics 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.

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

• Real world evidence studies using electronic healthcare records, registries, biobanks and databases
• Advanced study designs including external comparator arms and quantitative bias analysis
• Innovative approaches to identifying and quantifying unmet need and inequalities
• Studies addressing post authorisation regulatory commitments and other analyses supporting health authority questions

What will you be doing?

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

• Demonstrate a very high level of expertise in real world evidence
• Lead aspects of the design and delivery of RWE studies, with your contribution aligned to your area of specialist skill (epidemiology, biostatistics or data science/programming), including:
  • Study design
  • Evidence strategy
  • Data source assessment
  • Protocol development
  • Statistical analysis plan development
  • Data management (SQL, PySpark)
  • Statistical programming (R, Python)
  • Project management
  • Quality control
  • Report and manuscript writing
• Oversee and review the work of other members of the team and support their development, including:
  • Contribution to team learning and development
  • Contribution to the development of internal resources, tools and processes
• Contribute to developing advanced methods capabilities in this space
• Demonstrate and develop your expertise by contributing to thought leadership activities

What skills, qualities and experience must you have?

• Demonstrable experience in a relevant role at a CRO or consultancy, with a health-related Masters degree or PhD, ideally in epidemiology, biostatistics, health data science or a related speciality
• An excellent grounding in relevant methods with demonstrable experience in conceptualising and delivering previous studies and projects
• Excellent communication skills alongside good presentation skills and the ability to explain complex issues to others
• Excellent report writing skills
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills and be highly competent in the use of Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• If your specialist area is Data Science/Programming, you should be expert in R or Python
• Experience in project management, leading multidisciplinary teams and the execution of high-quality scientific work
• Initiative in every aspect of your work and creative in developing original solutions to problems
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to multi-task across several different projects alongside mentoring and coordinating less experienced colleagues work

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 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 would 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.