Research Associate III – Patient Preference and Experience
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Research Associate III developing cost-effectiveness and budget-impact models for Thermo Fisher Scientific’s healthcare research programs. Programming Excel/VBA simulations, managing projects, and mentoring junior staff.
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop health economic and outcomes research (HEOR) models for cost-effectiveness and budget impact analyses of healthcare interventions
- Program models using Microsoft Excel with VBA or specialized simulation software such as Arena
- Conduct model validations
- Conduct literature reviews and extract data relevant to health economic evaluations and cost-effectiveness analyses
- Conduct basic statistical analyses, including descriptive statistics and regression analysis
- Support development and maintenance of scientific resources such as model templates and modeling training manuals
- Draft project deliverables, including Excel/VBA models, user guides, model specifications, and technical reports
- Draft abstracts and manuscript sections, with possible co-authorship
- Develop project plans and monitor budgets, timelines, deliverables, and progress across multiple projects
- Assist the Principal Investigator with project management, scoping, progress tracking, and task delegation
- Mentor and supervise junior staff
- Draft proposals and budgets
- Manage multiple projects with varying tasks
Requirements:
- PhD or Master’s degree in Economics, Statistics, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering or related field with Bachelor’s degree in a similar program, and greater than two years of relevant work experience programming simulation models or other decision-analytic models in Microsoft Excel with VBA
- Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of relevant experience programming simulation models or other decision-analytic models in Microsoft Excel with VBA
- Experience in project management
- Experience with Microsoft Excel and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
- Experience with simulation and decision-analysis models, including discrete event simulation, decision trees, Markov, individual state-transition, and survival partition models
- Experience using other simulation and/or decision-analysis software such as Arena or TreeAge is preferable
- Practical knowledge of research project implementation
- Familiarity with mathematical and simulation modeling
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint
- Familiarity with pharmacoeconomics, epidemiology, and literature review principles
- Strong quantitative skills and understanding of basic statistics
- Strong organization skills
- Effective oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate in English orally and in writing
- Customer-focused mindset
- Ability to work well within a team
- In some cases, an equivalency combining appropriate education, training, and/or directly related experience may be considered sufficient
Benefits:
- Fully remote work arrangement
- Standard Monday-Friday work schedule
- Travel may be required
- Healthy and balanced working environment
- Collaboration and development opportunities
- Global team environment
- Opportunity to contribute to scientific excellence and healthcare innovation
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