Research Associate III – Patient Preference Studies

Position Overview

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.

As a Research Associate III – Patient Preference Studies, you will have the opportunity to learn and grow your skills by owning the following tasks:

Science

• Assist with or oversee patient preference studies using relevant methodologies (DCE, MCDA swing weighting, etc.).
• Prepare near-final drafts of protocols, site training materials, basic report sections, and manuscripts.
• Maintain familiarity with current scientific literature.
• May co-author presentations for scientific conferences and manuscripts for scientific journals.

Project Management

• Assume primary responsibility for day-to-day tasks related to the project, including making decisions related to the project either alone or in conjunction with more senior staff.
• Involved with client communication, and may be primary point of contact with client.
• Efficient delegation and communication with project team, and ensures proper staffing and oversight on project.
• Able to track timelines and keep project team and PI informed in order to complete work within the expected timeframe.
• Know project management systems (electronic and paper filing, SOP requirements, finance office practices, IRB needs, etc.) and implement as required.
• Oversee site recruitment and management tasks conducted by more junior staff.
• Travel 0-10% of the time.

Financial & Business Development

• Communicate effectively with clients.
• Write and/or review project proposals, including budgets.
• May interact with clients to win new business.

Patient-Centered Research Support

• Provide leadership, oversight, mentoring and guidance to junior staff in a formal and informal role.
• May supervise employees (up to and including Research Associate II).
• May attend scientific conferences for professional development/training.

Conforming to SOPs

• Conduct and participate in the training of junior staff and new hires.
• Participate in staff recruitment efforts (phone screening, interviewing, attending presentations, etc.).

Role Requirements

Education, Professional Skills & Experience

• Specific skills or knowledge of: patient preference studies or preference elicitation techniques, such as discrete choice experiments; multi-criteria decision analysis; or utility studies, including time trade-off or standard gamble techniques.
• PhD in a relevant scientific field; OR Master’s degree and at least three years of experience in relevant field; OR Bachelor’s degree in a relevant scientific field and at least five years of experience in relevant field.
• MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Ability to program in SAS or R desired.
• Experience of Atlas.ti or advanced qualitative research skills, and PubMed/embase helpful.

Employment Type

Full time

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office