Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Location/Division-Specific Information

This role offers 100% remote working flexibility.

Our Evidence Synthesis team offers broad clinical knowledge and expertise in finding and assessing complex information. This means our clients and Evidera colleagues can rely on us to discover, synthesize, and contextualize the data that really matter and thereby provide them with insights they could not have obtained by themselves. Here are a few things we help our clients & colleagues do:

- Understand new indications in the context of specific product strategy - Advise planning for primary research, such as choice of patient-reported outcome instruments and comparators

- Estimate clinical comparisons of products versus competitors

- Capitalize on existing research while assessing evidence gaps - Provide information for value development planning

- Determine which databases have proved useful in target indications - Derive model inputs

- Create burden-of-illness assessments for submission to payers

- Publish burden assessments for dissemination

- Populate dossiers

- Populate regulatory documents such as Risk Management Plans.

Discover Impactful Work:

You understand why systematic literature reviews are crucial. Perhaps you’re skilled in network meta-analysis (NMA) and/or epidemiology which will add to the team’s strengths in these or other specialist areas. Whatever your specific background and interests, you’ll be able to help ensure the team’s thinking and approach to systematic literature reviews take account of innovative research and best scientific and consulting practice. This role will independently direct key aspects of systematic literature review (SLR) research projects with guidance from senior staff, as well as manage multiple projects with tasks varying to degree by project.

A day in the Life:

Have co-PI/working-PI responsibilities (share project oversight with PI) or may serve as Project Manager on highly complex projects or programs of work
Delegate tasks and monitors progress of delegated project tasks
Design/responsible for study – quantitative and qualitative – or share responsibility with PI (e.g., systematic review strategy and protocols, SAPs, etc)
Responsible for study implementation and data analysis
Review study inclusion/exclusion, data extraction
Interpret results; edit to finalize results
Present findings or advise on presentation
Begin to undertake strategic planning tasks with PI/research scientists
Review/edit to finalize draft project deliverables
Author/edit/review abstracts/posters/manuscripts
Maintain familiarity with current scientific literature. Author presentations for scientific conferences and manuscripts for scientific journals.
Becoming active in professional organizations
Undertake other scientific tasks as assigned
Responsible for project management of large projects
Delegate project management

Responsible for client communication and problem solving with PI
Know project management systems (electronic and paper filing, SOP requirements, Finance office practices, etc.) and implement as required
If project PI, have financial responsibility for project
Support PI/research scientists in scientific tasks for business development
Design proposals and review drafts
Manage and alert PI to scope of work changes
Interact with clients to win new business and identify business leads
Participate in staff recruitment efforts (phone screening, interviewing, attending presentations, etc.)
Conform to SOPs and other Evidera requirements
Conduct and participate in the training of junior staff and new hires
Fulfill the tasks associated with the role of supervisor
Provide formal or informal leadership, oversight, mentoring, and guidance to junior staff

Keys to Success

Education & Experience:

PhD or Master’s in health sciences, economics, biology, natural sciences or a related field with 6 or more years relevant systematic literature review (SLR) experience or Bachelor’s with extensive relevant SLR experience
Proven experience in systematic literature review methods in health economics and/or health services research; experience in network meta-analysis

Personal Skills & Competencies:

Commercial experience in a similar environment is highly desirable
Deep understanding of research principles and demonstrated practical research implementation

Ability to access and use a variety of computer software developed both in-house and off-the-shelf.
Ability to effectively communicate information and ideas.
Competent in written and spoken English.
Frequently interacts with others to obtain or relate information to diverse groups.
Works independently with little guidance or reliance on oral or written instructions and plans work schedules to meet goals.
Performs a wide range of varying tasks and demands / changing conditions with little predictability.
Ability to perform and multitask under stress.

Senior Systematic Reviewer - Evidence Synthesis Evidera

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