**THE POSITION**:
- Leads a wide range of projects with a focus on evidence synthesis/statistics including NMA, MAIC, and PSM methods, with advanced methodological capabilities in ITC and RWE for HEOR and HTA including Bayesian statistical methods.
- Contributes to a variety of operational and business development initiatives, such as staffing projects, administering employee evaluations, performing hiring and capabilities presentations, and company strategy.
**ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**:
Our employees are tasked with delivering excellent business results through the efforts of their teams. These results are best achieved by:
- Setting project scope, strategy, and/or timelines
- Leading development of proposals and delivering them to clients
- Delegating activities to and supervising junior staff and contractors
- Overseeing projects with limited or no guidance from senior management
- Empowering project team members to take positive action and accountability for their work.
- Identifying and resolving issues/conflicts within project teams
- Proactively managing changes in project scope and potential issues/challenges, and devising contingency plans
- Overseeing/implementing quality control activities
- Ensuring timely billing of projects
- Performing post-mortem analyses of completed projects (e.g., duration, budgets)
- Comfortable leading all client meetings without senior support.
- Developing own client base
- Supporting business development (e.g., through capabilities presentations, repeat business)
- Seeking feedback regarding client satisfaction
- Identifying the need for and development of best practices and tools for project execution, project and employee management, and training
- Contributing to/making decisions regarding company direction, staffing, and workload
- Identifying need for additional staff and/or consultants
- Providing effective mentorship to new employees and as needed to other employees.
- Attending regular management meetings to discuss proposals, project status, staff allocation and needs, project conflicts, and other operational activities.
- Overseeing operational activities (e.g., groups, committees)
- Identifying opportunities for and devising strategies to achieve company/project efficiencies.
- Administering three-month reviews, summer check-ins, and annual reviews
- Developing, administering, and monitoring performance improvement plans
- All other duties as assigned.
**MINIMUM KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES**:
- MSc or PhD university degree in a medical
- or mathematics-related field such as biology, epidemiology, pharmacology, health economics, or statistics
- 8 years of relevant work experience in health research, biostatistics, health economics, or a related field
- Strong understanding and experience with statistical techniques to support HEOR, including but not limited to, NMA, MAIC, and PSM methods, with advanced methodological capabilities in ITC and RWE for HEOR and HTA including Bayesian statistical methods.
- Proven track record for HEOR and evidence synthesis
- Proven ability to problem solves with strong capabilities in identifying and implementing practical and creative solutions to difficult problems.
- Proven success working with a wide range of RWD projects including design, strategy, execution, and communication.
- Excellent understanding and practical use of coding language, most importantly being R code (other examples: WinBugs, OpenBugs)
- Experience creating business developments and/or proposal development.
- Technically competent with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Proficiency with computer programming software (e.g., VBA) or other role-related software (e.g., EndNote, statistical packages) is an asset.
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills
- Strong strategic, critical thinking, analytical, problem-solving, and multitasking capabilities
- Ability to lead project teams and client meetings.
- Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a sometimes-high-pressure environment.
- Ability to adapt to shifting internal and client-related priorities/timelines.
- Ability to manage personal and project team members' time across multiple competing projects.
- Ability to work independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
- Ability to effectively interact and communicate with peers, senior management, and clients.
- Ability to effectively supervise, train, and mentor junior employees.
- Ability to provide strategy for and advice on other team projects.
- Proven leadership, team-building, and mentoring skills
- Proven customer focus, with the ability to maintain strong business relationships with clients.
- Awareness of and ability to communicate CRG's services and offerings.
- Awareness of currents trends in the fields of health economics, statistics, data analytics and evidence synthesis, and/or medical writing
**EXPECTATIONS OF THE JOB