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February 12, 2010
HEOR Senior Consultants and Global Project Leaders
Location: Europe and US
Essentially every major pharmaceutical and biotechnology company in the world relies on IMS. With more than 50 years of experience in providing market intelligence, we offer clients information, analytics and consulting capabilities that are simply unmatched. With our longstanding tradition of product development, tailored to meet emerging client needs and innovations recognized industry-wide, we’ve earned our reputation as the “gold standard.”
With direct access to the world’s most comprehensive information, analytic and consulting/research resources, IMS experts in Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) deliver deep insights into product safety, efficacy, cost, value for money and affordability. We are one of only a few organizations that integrate health economics, outcomes research, pricing and market access and have senior staff involved in each project. Our work spans the spectrum of therapeutic and pathology areas, providing challenge and variety for our people.
Due to continued success and expansion of our offerings in response to client demand, we are expanding our global HEOR team throughout Europe, the US and Asia. We are proud to offer an invigorating atmosphere and challenging, varied projects that enable our people to realize their full potential. Our diverse mix of clients from Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, Diagnostic and Biotech companies, as well as our interactions with regulatory organizations, provides exposure to solving the health economics and outcomes research issues facing healthcare companies and authorities around the world. As a result our people really do help to demonstrate the value of medicine.
Do you have what it takes to join our world-class team?
Senior Consultants and Global Project Leaders have explicit recognition as senior team members with management responsibility for the on-time delivery of creative cost-effective proposals, projects or components of multi country large, complex HEOR projects, and for some or all of the deliverables of the project team. They are responsible for mentoring, coaching and development of more junior staff within and outside project teams - including multiple countries where applicable.
Candidates are expected to have proven direct or related experience in consulting and consulting methodologies, tools and techniques within the pharmaceutical and/or healthcare industry as well as in managing complex, sometimes multi-country projects. A strong grounding in outcomes research/economics/health economics is essential as is knowledge of key issues and developments within the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry.
All applicants should have:
- A postgraduate qualification in health economics, health services research, epidemiology or a related, relevant discipline;
- An understanding of economics and health economics;
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills;
- Good organisational skills and the ability to balance multiple projects;
- Proven experience in working in HEOR to project management/line management level
- Proven and well developed management skills and client influencing and consultative relationship building skills within the healthcare industry
- Excellent understanding of international health care environment
- Ability to manage complex, multiple projects, juggle priorities and deliver on tight deadlines
- Highly numerate and good quantitative skills
- Excellent presentation and communication skills
- Commercial awareness
- Fluent spoken and written business English.
The ability to deliver high quality work within timelines is essential, as is a flexible and team-oriented approach. As a significant number of our clients are based overseas, projects involve occasional international travel.
In return, you can expect the rich variety of projects - both globally and locally - that comes from working for a world-class organization such as IMS, along with the chance to work with leaders in the field of HEOR, and the support, commitment and career development framework to challenge and enhance your career on both a local and global stage - as well as the Total Reward package you would expect of working for one of the world’s leading consultancies.
Want to know more?
Visit: http://www.imshealth.com/heor and http://www.imshealth.com/heor/recruitment
Please mark your application “Senior Consultant or Global Project Leader HEOR” and send it with your CV and a covering letter to HEORapplications@uk.imshealth.com. If you have any questions please call Liz Coventry, our Talent Acquisition Manager, in our London office on +44 203 075 5162.
February 2010: Consultant/Advisor , Health Economist , Project Leader , Researcher/Co-ordinator