Job Description

Employment Type: Full time Work Schedule: Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions: Office

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.

Location/Division Specific Information

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

Discover Impactful Work:

The Research Associate I provides scientific support for discrete tasks. May independently manage some project-related tasks.

A Day in the Life:

• Assists with preparing proposals, protocols, and reports by conducting internet and literature searches.
• Conducts literature reviews by abstracting data from scientific articles.
• Conducts and may coordinate site activities, including: recruitment, contracting and IRB submissions, site management and training.
• Conducts and assists with data collection and data management, including conducting one-on-one cognitive interviews, co-moderating focus groups; compiles data collection tools, performing data entry and review.
• Provides help with data analysis, including preparing qualitative code book, performing and coordinating coding, and reviewing quantitative data tables.
• Perform efficient delegation and communication within/outside of project team, and communicate regularly with senior project team members (i.e. principal investigator) about project tasks.
• Assist with financial management of project.
• No proposal writing requirement of this position, although individuals may choose to work on sections of selected proposals.

Keys to Success: Education and Experience

• Master’s Degree in a scientific field and at least one year of experience OR Bachelor’s Degree in a scientific field and at least two years of experience in healthcare research.
• Proficiency in MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Experience with Atlas.ti; Access data entry; InFormU; EndNote; PubMed/embase; DataFax is required for this position.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Basic understanding of research methods and practical knowledge of research implementation.
• Collaborative team member, capable of efficient multi-tasking.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrates attention to detail.
• Ability to work well within a team environment.