Senior Consultant Health Economist (Modeller)

Reporting to the Managing Consultant, the Senior Consultant Health Economist is responsible for ensuring the effective delivery of Health Economics projects. This role combines expertise in health economics with providing clear direction, expert guidance, and strong leadership to project teams, ensuring excellence across all stages of project delivery. The Senior Consultant will oversee a wide range of project types and activities, including health economic models, econometric analyses, development of value messages and work to derive these, peer-reviewed publications, and other qualitative and quantitative work. A central aspect of this role is fostering team development by strengthening the team's skills and capabilities, providing development feedback and creating a culture of continuous learning and professional growth.

Job details:

• HE Expertise
  • Provide expert advice on all Health Economics (HE) matters
  • Build and adapt Health Economic Models (Cost-effectiveness, budget-impact & others bespoke models) using Excel, VBA & R
  • Provide technical, strategic direction and quality control on development of model specifications.
• Project Lead and Oversight
  • Provide clear direction, guidance and leadership to the project teams to ensure the effective delivery of projects
  • Lead activities to identify clients’ needs, then design solutions that meet those needs in a value-centric way
  • Provide technical and strategic project oversight (in particular HE projects)
  • Ensure all project outputs are efficiently delivered to the highest quality standards, and against the design specification
  • Ensure that Aquarius meets its contractual consulting and project performance obligations.
• Business Development
  • Build and nurture relationships with current and potential new clients to drive revenue growth
  • Lead and manage client bids and proposals.
• Leadership
  • Provide formal line management for Consultants, Associate Consultants and Analysts, fostering their growth and performance
  • Act as a coach and mentor, developing a high performing team with strong professional ethics and high standards
  • Support with the recruitment and hiring of new employees
  • Drive internal development and supports/provides development and delivery of training (formal or informal).
  • Lead by example, embodying Aquarius’ core values.

Person Specification:

• Creative and critical thinker
• Curious and enthusiastic problem solver
• Strong client relationship skills, excels at influencing and negotiating, fostering trust and collaboration with clients
• Acts as a role model in demonstrating high personal standards of maturity, integrity and confidentiality
• A clear and concise communicator
• Has a growth mindset and embraces challenges as opportunities for learning and continuous improvement
• Performs and thrives in fast-paced environment and works well under pressure
• Leadership and people management skills including leading with confidence, client relationship abilities, and/or demonstrates a keen interest in developing these further.

Experience and skills:

• Demonstrated experience in a HE consultant/senior consultant role within consultancy or in a commercial environment
• Experience of designing and developing health economic evaluation studies, economic models (decision analyses, state-transition models, budget impact models, return on investment models, cost-utility and cost-effectiveness models, etc.) and costing health services
• Extensive experience with health economic analysis/modelling, writing programs/code, statistical analysis, and interpreting results (preferably using Excel with VBA and/or R)
• Proven ability to design and lead projects beyond standard methodologies, leveraging creative and tailored solutions to meet unique client needs
• Experience of leading client discussions, supporting them to identify their needs, define complex challenges and determine evidence generation requirements to address their goals
• Experience of designing and conducting quantitative analyses, interpreting results and presenting findings and signing and conducting literature reviews and synthesising/summarising evidence
• Experience in managing mid to junior team members, developing and nurturing talent including mentoring and coaching to drive high performance.

Qualifications:

• PhD/MSc in Health Economics, Modelling or Econometrics

What we offer:

• Impactful work: Lead and deliver a wide range of projects spanning quantitative and qualitative research, across public, private, and non-profit sectors, from innovative start-ups to the very largest multinationals, influencing healthcare decisions on a global scale.
• Professional growth: Be part of a dynamic consultancy where there are development opportunities.
• Ownership and influence: Your ideas and contributions directly influence our direction and success.
• Collaborative culture: Be part of a supportive, diverse, and social workplace.
• Comprehensive benefits: 25 days holiday, Competitive pension scheme, Annual personal development allowance, Private healthcare with AXA Health, Cycle to work scheme, Employee assistance programme, Hybrid working (2 days working in the office as a minimum).

If you are inspired by our vision and believe you have the skills and mindset to contribute, we’d love to hear from you. Apply Now to join our team. We will consider applications from UK and non-UK based candidates for sponsorship to work from the UK on permanent or long-term contracts (e.g., 12+ months). Closing date - Friday 6th June 2025. Please note that we will be interviewing from 19th May on a rolling basis.