Consultant/Senior Consultant - Epidemiology

Consultant/Senior Consultant – Epidemiology

Location – London or Winchester

Hybrid working – minimum 40% (2 days per week) in office with Tuesday as the specified team day

What do we do?

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.

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 already developed a track record for leading approaches to real world evidence generation, health economics, market access consulting and generative AI.

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, using global RWD sources
• Advanced study designs including external comparators 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
• Manuscript writing

What’s the role?

To be successful in this position you will have significant, demonstrable and relevant experience in a consulting or a CRO role alongside the ability to provide excellent service to our clients through both technical expertise and delivery/project management excellence.

We are looking for a Consultant or Senior Consultant in Epidemiology (with an optional specialisation in drug safety) to join our team of experts and strengthen our capabilities in this area. You should bring a high level of scientific rigor, be motivated to work at the cutting edge of methods and RWE study designs, and be committed to going the extra mile for our clients.

This is an opportunity for you to join a dynamic team at an exciting time in its growth. As an experienced hire, 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. Experience in real world data from the US, UK, major EU markets and Japan is desirable. Experience of designing or carrying out studies to meet post authorisation regulatory commitments or evaluating risk minimisation measures is also desirable.

Key Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate a very high level of technical expertise in epidemiology
• Lead and contribute to all stages of projects including:
  • Proposal development
  • Protocol development
  • 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, qualifications and experience are we looking for?

• Proven, demonstrable experience in a relevant role, including experience working in a consultancy or CRO role
• Health-related Masters degree or PhD, ideally in epidemiology or a related specialty
• An excellent grounding in relevant methods with demonstrated experience in conceptualising and delivering previous studies and projects
• Excellent communication skills, including technical writing and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex issues clearly to others
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills with programming skills in R or Python desirable (hands-on analytical or programming skills are not required)
• Experienced in project management, leading multidisciplinary teams and the execution of high-quality scientific work and able to thrive in a growing, dynamic team
• Creativity and innovation
• Experience in business development activities, including proposal writing and pitching to potential clients is desirable
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to multi-task your workload and that of a multi-disciplinary team
• Mentoring and coordination of less experienced team members

What’s in it for you?

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.

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