Job Summary
As an Associate Scientist at OPEN Health, you will be an essential contributor to our team, working across a range of projects with ownership of specific deliverables and timelines. The ideal candidate is enthusiastic, drawn to a career in statistics applied to a healthcare setting and seeks practical work in a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary, international organization. In addition, the ideal candidate should have an affinity for, and proven experience in, statistical or health economic modelling, including a good level of knowledge of R.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Undertaking statistical and health economic research tasks, with support and guidance from senior consultants, by carrying out analyses including:
- Synthesis of data quantitatively (meta-analyses and indirect treatment comparisons) and qualitatively with minimal supervision
- Survival analysis, including flexible and innovative methods
- Fitting bespoke statistical models onto clinical trial-level data to aid extrapolation into the future and provide parameter estimates for economic models
- Bayesian analysis: fit Bayesian models to aggregate reported data and patient-level data and provide an estimate of treatment-specific clinically relevant outcomes
- Registry data analysis
- Identifying and develop statistical methodologies and strategies in partnership with project teams
- Assisting in the production and internal dissemination of statistical code for standard analysis
- Building cost-effectiveness and budget impact models in excel
- Drafting project reports and other deliverables
- Adhering to project budgets and timelines
- Supporting client interactions and outreach to ensure exceptional client satisfaction
- Responding to requests for proposals as directed
Experience, Skills, And Qualifications
- Master's degree or PhD in any relevant science, such as health economics, econometrics, economics, pharmacy, epidemiology, statistics or medical sciences
- Proven programming skills in R
- Experience with building packages, version control
- R Markdown and Shiny would be an advantage
- A quantitative skill set
- Knowledge of health economic modelling and network meta-analysis (NMA) would be an advantage
About OPEN Health
OPEN Health unites deep scientific knowledge with wide-ranging specialist expertise to unlock possibilities that improve health outcomes and patient wellbeing. Working in partnership with our clients, we embrace our different perspectives and strengths to deliver fresh thinking and solutions that make a difference.
OPEN Health is a flexible global organization that solves complex healthcare challenges across HEOR and market access, medical communications and creative omnichannel campaigns.
What we offer:
As a global organization, OPEN Health is committed to supporting our employees and their families through a comprehensive benefits program
- Competitive pay, generous paid vacation and holidays, and health insurance programs across all our locations
- Ongoing training and development opportunities which foster and shape your individual career path
- An active and growing commitment to bettering the communities our employees call home through our Corporate Social Responsibility program
- The opportunity to thrive in a global, collaborative environment while working every day to improve health outcomes and patient wellbeing
- Diverse, inclusive culture that encourages you to bring your whole self to work
If we sound like the sort of business environment in which you would thrive, then we would love to hear from you.
