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Associate Director – Real World Evidence

Associate Director – Real World Evidence

CompanyAstraZeneca
LocationWaltham, MA, USA, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Salary$135457.6 – $203186.4
TypeFull-Time
DegreesMaster’s, PhD
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • Master’s degree + 5+ years of relevant experience
  • Experience in supporting a multidisciplinary team build a research objective that can be met with RWD
  • Experience in the use and application of RWD to support clinical decision making
  • Health analytics and data mining of routinely collected healthcare data
  • Use of statistical and scripting languages such as R, Python and SQL
  • Clinical trials and recruitment, especially the application of synthetic control arms
  • The application of genomics in clinical care or translational medicine
  • Health economics or epidemiology, and quantitative science such as health outcome modelling

Responsibilities

  • Leverage Real World Data (RWD) to generate actionable insights for clinical development
  • Guide the transformation of real-world clinical data using statistical and epidemiological methods
  • Support regulatory interactions using RWD
  • Ideate new methods and applications of RWE to tackle clinical development challenges

Preferred Qualifications

  • PhD in relevant subject area
  • Data science, machine learning and construction of predictive models
  • Clinical data standards, medical terminologies and healthcare ontologies
  • Work in a patient care or similar setting, that would allow the candidate to bring medical perspective into real-world evidence generation
  • Experience designing and implementing pragmatic clinical trials
  • Knowledge of Oncology and Pharmaceutical development