Head of Epidemiology
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Head of Epidemiology leading Fortrea’s epidemiology and real-world evidence consulting capability. Governing complex programs, strategic client relationships, scientific standards, and senior team development.
Responsibilities:
- Provide scientific governance for the most complex or high-risk epidemiology programs
- Support selected strategic client relationships and pursuits
- Develop senior epidemiology leaders
- Guide methods, quality, talent, and service offering priorities within epidemiology
- Partner with leaders across Fortrea Consulting and the enterprise on epidemiology, RWE, and Consulting initiatives
- Contribute to epidemiology growth strategy and lead selected priorities
- Sponsor or provide senior scientific approval for selected high-value epidemiology pursuits and client relationships
- Provide epidemiology input to commercial priorities, opportunity-pipeline reviews, and key-account opportunities
- Build external scientific relationships and alliances
- Shape scientific direction and the capability roadmap for epidemiology
- Lead priorities for methods, technology, data partnerships, talent, quality, and scalable delivery
- Establish governance for scientific standards, review, risk escalation, reproducibility, transparency, and regulatory readiness
- Shape Fortrea’s external scientific voice through thought leadership and professional engagement
- Contribute epidemiology expertise to integrated evidence strategies and delivery models
- Serve as senior scientific sponsor for selected complex or high-risk epidemiology programs
- Ensure epidemiology strategies and deliverables meet standards for credibility, relevance, transparency, and defensibility
- Advise senior client stakeholders on epidemiology and RWE strategy, evidence gaps, and regulatory, payer, or HTA implications
- Provide senior epidemiology escalation and decision support for scientific, quality, delivery, financial, and relationship risks
- Ensure appropriate application of epidemiologic and causal-inference methods, natural history, external control arms, time-to-event methods, and regulatory frameworks
- Lead senior epidemiology leaders and oversee leadership development, succession, and organizational effectiveness
- Lead workforce planning, senior hiring, promotion, performance, and deployment decisions
- Build an inclusive and accountable epidemiology culture
- Model Fortrea culture, business ethics, scientific integrity, and responsible decision-making
- Perform other duties as needed or assigned
Requirements:
- Doctoral-level degree in a discipline-relevant area, such as epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, public health, or related quantitative health science; Fortrea may consider a graduate-level degree (e.g., MS/MPH) with relevant and equivalent experience and successful project outcomes in lieu of educational requirements
- Recognized scientific and strategic leadership in epidemiology and RWE, including advanced methodology, regulatory-grade evidence, program governance, and capability development
- Demonstrated success strengthening an epidemiology capability, complex program portfolio, or strategic client relationship while sustaining scientific quality and client trust
- Demonstrated success developing senior scientific leaders and leading multidisciplinary teams through growth and change
- Exceptional senior-level communication, judgment, influence, and relationship-building skills across scientific, commercial, and client stakeholders
- Strong understanding of epidemiological guidelines, including STROBE/RECORD and ISPE/ENCePP
- Strong understanding of major regulatory RWE principles, including FDA RWE Framework, ICH E6(R3), and ICH M14
- 15 years of relevant experience, or doctoral-level degree with at least 12 years
- Extensive leadership of complex portfolios, major client relationships, business growth, scientific strategy, and senior leaders
- 10 years of experience leading cross-functional teams and developing staff
- Applied use of secondary real-world data sources, such as claims, EHR, and registries
- Experience representing an epidemiology or RWE capability with senior client, regulatory, payer, HTA, industry, and scientific stakeholders
- Successful experience with external control arms/synthetic controls, natural history studies, and HEOR deliverables
- Demonstrated success originating or expanding strategic client relationships and multidisciplinary programs
- Track record of building new offerings, markets, partnerships, or delivery models with measurable organizational impact
- Experience shaping strategy for an epidemiology or RWE capability and integrating scientific, commercial, people, technology, quality, and delivery priorities
- Recognized external influence through scientific leadership, professional organizations, guidance development, publications, or senior advisory roles
- Ability to challenge conventional thinking to solve client issues and develop solutions
- Regular and consistent attendance
- Ability to access and use a variety of computer software developed both in-house and off-the-shelf
- Ability to travel internationally to support the business as needed
Benefits:
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- STD/LTD
- 401(K)
- ESPP
- Paid time off (PTO) or Flexible time off (FTO)
- Company bonus where applicable
- Occasional domestic and international travel
- Remote home-base work environment
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