Research Associate I, Patient Preference - Evidera

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.

Come to one of the largest in-house teams dedicated to preference elicitation and related decision analysis. Our work enables our clients to understand which endpoints are meaningful to patients and other stakeholders, how they trade-off across these endpoints, and the implications for both internal and external decisions. We specialize in the application of stated preference techniques, such as discrete choice experiment, best / worst scaling, swing weighting, and other forms of MCDA.

You would be joining a fast growing, successful team, operating at the cutting edge of the science of incorporating customer preferences into health care decision making. We have created an innovative, collaborative culture, aimed at developing and sharing good practice in preference research, both internally and externally.

The Research Associate I will play an active role in supporting all aspects of patient preference research projects. As part of the patient preference team, you will participate to progress and operationalize good practice in the elicitation and incorporation of preferences into health-care decision making.

• Performing background and literature reviews
• Assisting development of preference elicitation instruments
• Interviewing patients and physicians
• Analyzing qualitative data using appropriate software
• User acceptance testing of data collection instruments (e.g. patient preference surveys)
• Supporting development of client deliverables such as slide decks and reports
• Communication with and management of vendors and research partners such as clinical sites and patient advocacy groups
• Managing client meetings and workshops

• Master’s Degree in a quantitative field and at least one year of relevant job experience or Bachelor’s Degree in same field and at least 2-3 years of relevant experience
• Experience with primary data collection from patients (qualitative or quantitative)
• Understanding of preference elicitation techniques, such as discrete choice experiments (DCE), best-worst scaling (BWS), or MCDA swing weighting

• Proficient with MS Office software (Excel, Word and PowerPoint)
• Ideally experience with a statistical programming language such as STATA, SAS, MATLAB or R (preferred)
• Experience with ATLAS.ti (preferred)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Collaborative team member, capable of efficient multi-tasking
• Drive and ambition to succeed in a consultancy
• Confident, comfortable in taking initiative and an ability to work without close supervision
• The ability and desire to learn quickly, be it methodological or industry developments

• Normal and routine office duties.
• May require domestic and international travel.

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!

• only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

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