Real World Evidence (Associate Consultant

Location - London or Winchester with hybrid working available. In-office time as per departmental requirements, currently a MINIMUM of 2 days per week (40%)

Our Heath practice provides analytical and research services for organisations across the life sciences and healthcare industries. Our team brings together clinicians, statisticians, epidemiologists, health economists, bioinformaticians and health data scientists alongside our established actuarial, analytics and technology teams to deliver new solutions to the fundamental challenges in health.

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, drug safety, health economic modelling, evidence strategy and market access. We have been growing the team quickly in response to the demand we are seeing for the service offerings we have developed and are now looking for a Real World Evidence (RWE) Associate Consultant to join our team of experts and strengthen our capabilities in this area.

What's the role?

You will play a key role in the design and analysis of studies using real world healthcare data, such as electronic healthcare records, registries and claims databases. We are looking for someone who can bring a high level of scientific rigor and who is motivated to work at the cutting edge of methods and RWE study designs, and provide excellent service to our clients. You background may be as an epidemiologist focussing on study design and reporting, statistician focussing on analytical methods or data scientist focussed on programming – we do not expect you to be an expert in all of these areas.

This is an excellent opportunity for you to join a dynamic team at an exciting time in its growth!

Our Health work:

LCP’s Health 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.

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
• Advanced study designs including external comparator arms and quantitative bias analysis
• Innovative approaches to identifying and quantifying unmet need and inequalities
• Manuscript writing

What will you be doing?

As an Associate Consultant in LCP’s Health team you will be involved in a diverse range of projects, covering both client and non-client work. Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Demonstrate a very high level of expertise in epidemiology, statistics or health data science/programming
• Contribute (aligned with your skills) to the design an execution of RWE studies including:
  • Proposal development
  • Protocol development
  • SAP development
  • Project management
  • Programming (R/SQL/Python)
  • Quality control
  • Report writing

What skills, qualities and experience must you have?

• Demonstrable experience in a relevant role at a pharmaceutical company, CRO or consultancy, with a minimum 2:1 degree or better in a numerate or science subject, and a health-related Masters degree or PhD
• An excellent grounding in relevant methods with demonstrated experience in conceptualising and delivering previous studies and projects
• Excellent communication skills alongside good presentation skills and the ability to explain complex issues to others
• Excellent report writing skills
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills and be highly competent in the use of Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• If your specialist area is Data Science/Programming, you should be expert in R. SQL, Python and PySpark experience is desirable but not essential
• Excellent organisational skills and able to coordinate the work of multi-disciplinary teams with ease
• The mindset to thrive in a growing and dynamic team, comfortable leading on day-to-day project activities
• Initiative in every aspect of your work and creative in developing original solutions to problems

What’s in it for you?

Take a look at our and Career stories pages to see why our people love being here! As well as joining a multi-award winning, fun, collaborative, people first organisation where your personal and professional skills will be developed to make you the best you can be, 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 ) 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

• 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. This may be extra time for assessments, pre-interview site visits, interview structure or questions, or asking us about building accessibility. Whatever it may be, please get in touch via our dedicated email address - to discuss how we can support you with your application.

Recruitment agencies

LCP operates a Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for recruitment agencies which is reviewed annually. We do not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies who are not part of our current PSL. LCP only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place, and the agency has been instructed by a member of our recruitment team to supply CVs via the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) for a legitimate, open vacancy. If this process is not adhered to, LCP reserve the right to contact these candidates directly and have discussions with them without paying any agency fees. We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to any employee or Partner at LCP.