Qualitative COA Lead

Position Overview

• Location Type: Not Specified
• Job Type: Full-time
• Work Schedule: Standard (Mon-Fri)
• Environmental Conditions: Office
• Salary: Not Specified

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll 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.

Evidera’s Patient-Centered Research (PCR) group combines a unique portfolio of scientific fields, including health sciences, psychometrics, epidemiology, psychology, and other. 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.

The Qualitative Clinical Outcomes Assessment (COA) Lead will manage and grow an established team of scientists within Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Patient-Centered Research (PCR) team. The qualitative COA team develops, commercializes and delivers best-in-class qualitative research designed to support global COA development programs across therapeutic areas and for a wide range of clients. This includes patient and caregiver reported outcomes, clinician reported outcomes, observer reported outcomes and performance-based measures. The team draws on many research methods, such as landscape review, concept elicitation, cognitive debriefing, UAT testing, thematic or content analysis, and linguistic validation. The successful candidate will report into the PCR Delivery Lead and work closely with other team leads, such as Quantitative COA, patient-experience data or in-trial research teams.

Responsibilities include defining the COA qualitative offering, championing thought leadership to advance science and reputation, driving process innovations, collaborating with the commercial team on business development strategies, serving as point of contact for clients, planning team capacity, staffing of opportunities, offering development opportunities for team members, leading recruitment activities, managing the team pipeline, driving financial success, and ensuring operational excellence. The lead will also support client projects as scientific advisor and/or principal investigator.

This exciting role is an essential stakeholder to PCR providing a full suite of services and offerings to facilitate the integration of research-based findings into pharmaceutical and bio-technology usage throughout all phases of drug development for the betterment of the patient experience.

Essential Functions

• Work with the PCR leadership and other stakeholders (e.g., commercial team) to develop a vision for thought leadership, innovation, marketing and business development strategy of the qualitative COA team
• Develop and execute the annual team plan in close collaboration with external and internal stakeholders (e.g., marketing, commercial teams)
• Coordinate response to client RFPs, including managing existing qualitative resources as well as identification of additional resource needs (i.e. recruitment oversight), and reviewing and approving proposals and budget
• Support staff management including interviewing and selection, professional development, goal setting, performance management and other tasks associated with staff functions
• Identify business risks and develop mitigation plans
• Develop and build long-lasting client relationships

Requirements

• Not Specified

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow an established team of scientists.
• Develop, commercialize, and deliver best-in-class qualitative research for global COA development programs.
• Utilize various research methods including landscape review, concept elicitation, cognitive debriefing, UAT testing, thematic or content analysis, and linguistic validation.
• Define the COA qualitative offering.
• Champion thought leadership to advance science and reputation.
• Drive process innovations.
• Collaborate with the commercial team on business development strategies.
• Serve as a point of contact for clients.
• Plan team capacity and staffing of opportunities.
• Provide development opportunities for team members.
• Lead recruitment activities.
• Manage the team pipeline.
• Drive financial success.
• Ensure operational excellence.
• Support client projects as a scientific advisor and/or principal investigator.
• Develop a vision for thought leadership, innovation, marketing, and business development strategy for the qualitative COA team.
• Develop and execute the annual team plan.
• Coordinate client RFP responses, including resource management and proposal approval.
• Support staff management functions.
• Identify business risks and develop mitigation plans.
• Develop and build long-lasting client relationships.

Application Instructions

• Not Specified

Company Information

• Company: Thermo Fisher Scientific
• Division: Evidera’s Patient-Centered Research (PCR) group