Associate Health Economist

Source Health Economics is a growing HEOR consultancy specialising in health economics, value communication, systematic review, statistics, and health technology assessment. Since we were founded in 2016, we have achieved our planned year-on-year growth, allowing many opportunities for personal development.

At Source, we have a technically-excellent, supportive, and friendly team, and pride ourselves on our inclusive and collaborative culture. Our core values are excellence, balance, and growth. We strive to:

• Deliver excellence for our clients and patients, whilst preserving a good work-life balance and supporting employee well-being.
• Provide opportunities for growth for our employees.

We recruit some of the brightest minds and invest in your professional development.

Source is a fun, personable company, where our technical teams work closely with each other, enabling us all to learn from some of the best minds in the business. We value our employees, and all employees are encouraged to voice their ideas and contribute to business initiatives, regardless of seniority. Source prides itself on its commitment to employee welfare, as evidenced by our high employee retention.

We have open-plan offices in Oxford and central London, with hybrid working. Our contractual working hours are 37.5 hours per week, with flexible start and finish times around our core company hours of 10 am to 4 pm. Note that for this position, the employee would be expected to be in either office 2-3 days per week.

Alongside an opportunity to actively contribute to a growing company, we offer a competitive salary, 25 days annual leave plus UK bank holidays, discretionary bonus scheme, opt-in employee health insurance, employee life insurance, cycle to work scheme, and above-average employer pension contributions.

The health economics team currently consists of 22 people, six at senior level (Consultant Health Economist level and above). The team works across many different clinical areas including oncology, haematology and a number of genetic conditions. Precise deliverables vary by project, but typically consist of building de novo / adapting existing cost-effectiveness and budget impact models. Often, they are developed as core elements of health technology assessments for submission to agencies such as the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC).

Across the team we offer opportunities for project management and line management (with additional training provided if needed, and particularly when at senior level). There are also opportunities to be involved with non-project work to support business development and internal process needs. Every person at Source is highly valued, and we recognise that individual efforts have a considerable impact on the business’s success.

As an Associate Health Economist, you will work closely and collaboratively with senior members of the health economics team, project managers, value communication, systematic review, and statistics teams to deliver high-quality evidence-based solutions for our clients. You will sometimes also be in a client-facing role.

You will be required to:

• Undertake research, secondary data collection and referencing.
• Input into the development of model specifications.
• Build cost-effectiveness and budget impact models in Microsoft Excel™.
• Validate models.
• Undertake basic statistical analysis.
• Write technical reports.
• Communicate with and present to clients.

You will need:

• Analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• An ability to work under pressure and to timelines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• An attention to detail.
• Excellent Microsoft Excel™ skills.
• To be able to perform basic statistical analyses in (ideally) STATA.
• An ability to input on appropriate model methods, data, and assumptions.
• Identify appropriate UK cost data.
• Determine, run, and report model analyses.
• Draft a model specification with some direction.
• Write a technical report and user guide.

At least a MSc in Health Economics, Maths, Operational Research or equivalent. Preferably, cost-effectiveness and budget impact model building experience, but the post is open to recently qualified post-graduates. Ideally, experience of developing economic evaluations for institutes such as NICE and the SMC and a degree of familiarity with their process and methodological preferences.

Source is part of Sciris. Sciris specialises in bespoke programmes in health economics and outcomes research, healthcare communication, creative and brand strategy, medical compliance, insights, and insights.