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October 10, 2010
Principal Investigator, Health Behavior and Economics
Location: Franklin Tennessee, USA (Nashville area)
Note: Only candidates from the USA can be considered
About our client company
A world leader in providing specialized, comprehensive solutions to help millions of people maintain or improve their health and well-being and, as a result, reduce overall costs.
Our client company’s solutions are designed to keep healthy people healthy, mitigate or eliminate lifestyle risk factors that can lead to disease and optimize care for those with chronic illness. The company’s proven, evidence-based programs provide highly specific and personalized interventions for each individual in a population, irrespective of age or health status, and are delivered to consumers by phone, mail, internet and face-to-face interactions, both domestically and internationally. Our client company also provides a national, fully accredited complementary and alternative Health Provider Network and a national Fitness Center Network, offering convenient access to individuals who seek health services outside of, and in conjunction with, the traditional healthcare system.
Position and reporting relationships:
The Principal Investigator for Health Behavior and Economics is a senior leader within our client company’s Center for Health Research responsible for leading and establishing a program of research to evaluate and demonstrate the value of human behavior change in impacting total population health, economics, and outcomes delivered by our client company’s programs.
Reporting directly to the Director of Health Research and Outcomes, this executive will be responsible for creating and managing a multidisciplinary team and highly diverse research agenda aimed at measuring the impact that our client company’s programs deliver in changing behavior of populations as it relates to health, wellness and well-being to drive improved economic, clinical and productivity gains for their customers.
The goal of the Principal Investigator’s work will be to support our client company to design the best possible scientific research valuing and measuring the total impact of population behavior change in the health and well-being industry. This work will help establish them as the leader in credible health and wellness outcomes measurement. It represents significant opportunities to drive highly visible research within the organization that lead to publication and presentation of results to high profile audiences.
This is a high visibility, challenging and rewarding position leading a highly skilled team to produce cutting edge research and methodologies leveraging assets that are unparalleled in the health care space. Available resources include one of the largest multi-terabyte health care outcomes data warehouses in the world and is the process of building a comprehensive multi-dimensional measure of health, health behaviors and well-being across the nation.
This is a highly collaborative position working across a team of investigators, in addition to managing relationships with leading researchers, industry luminaries and contractors across the nation. He/she will also be directly working with other departments within our client company to design studies and analytic methods to help answer mission critical questions about the business. The Principal Investigator will publish the work in peer reviewed journals, prepare formal presentations, posters, and abstracts for scientific meetings and conferences, create executive briefings and author materials to be shared with customers both internal and external to the company. Excellent communication skills, diplomacy, and leadership skills are a must.
Significant opportunities exist for publication and advanced research in a well funded department working in an organization aimed at improving health, improving health behaviors of populations, enhancing well-being, improving business performance and reducing healthcare costs. The candidate is expected to work as an independent research leader in team efforts to design and carry out health-related research and be able to present research findings and evaluation results to internal and external audiences on a frequent basis. Strong encouragement will be given for publication of substantive papers. In addition, the candidate will develop tools for use in business processes and serve as a consultant on research and scientific matters with internal and external customers.
Position performance objectives:
- Develop and manage a program designing scientifically valid research for multiple simultaneous studies to measure and articulate the total impact of behavior change and outcomes delivered by our client company and to advance its Well-Being and Value agenda
- Collaborate across departments to create valid scientific approaches to measuring our client company’s programs and applying scientific method to analyses to evaluate their program effectiveness as it relates to health and behavior change
- Develop hypotheses to be tested and approaches for doing so in consultative collaboration with department heads and business leaders across the company
- Analyze, measure and report results from research on health behaviors of large health care populations
- Create written publications (peer-reviewed, executive summary, review articles, posters, abstracts) based on methodologies and techniques developed to measure their programs
- Manage team of analytics experts to mine data, execute statistical and quantitative analyses and summarize results for use in publications and communications. Develop, nurture and grow the team.
- Select and utilize proper behavioral, scientific and statistical methodologies for accurate measurement of complex health care behavioral and financial data sets
- Demonstrate good project management capabilities defining scope, establishing goals and timelines and managing to these, providing project status reporting and communicating this to upper levels
- Provide leadership in research across the organization and clearly communicate often highly complex methods to audiences at varying levels including C-suite and senior executives within the organization
- Oversee complete programs of investigation, also collaborating with investigators from other disciplines in other departments, contracting agencies, or academic / governmental institutions
- Set positive personal example on behavior and health in alignment with their culture and values; promote and encourage trust, responsibility and ownership of work
Skills and capabilities desired:
- A doctoral degree is required (Ph.D., Ed.D., DrPH) in health behavior, behavioral sciences, economics, econometrics, behavioral economics or related fields.
- Outstanding attainment in research demonstrated by a combination of first author peer-reviewed publications and project experience
- A core understanding of science and how to drive, design and measure results, along with ability to function well in a strong business environment
- Understanding of and experience in dealing with large volumes of data and modeling the data for prediction of results/impact and correlating with other data sources
- Critical thinker: Assures proper methodology, scientific rigor and design have been fully considered and implemented in creation, delivery, execution, and communication of work. Able to identify flaws in logic or design, see the big picture, and execute best-in-class science to solve complex business problems.
- Strong people management skills that thrive in an entrepreneurial environment
- Ability to build and lead a high performance work team capable of delivering on multiple scientific projects simultaneously
- Team-focused with a talent for engaging and inspiring co-workers to deliver their best work every day
- Ability to lead cross functional multi-disciplinary projects meeting timelines and milestones
- Hands-on manager able to absorb workload of team - able to work side by side and execute on work as well as supervise
- Demonstrated hands on expertise in valid scientific analytics of large-scale datasets
- Strong project management focus with the ability to create concrete research work plans, execute and report to senior management on timely delivery and progress and conduct and deliver research on time and within budget to meet customer needs
- Can design, manage, and execute on multiple, complex, scientific projects at one time with minimal supervision in a fast paced and changing business environment.
- Can effectively manage external contractors or collaborators to assure on-time on-budget deliverables.
- Superb communicator able to craft well-written, scientifically valid, ready-to-deliver communications that require minimal to no revisions, review, or editing before they can be shared to broad internal or external audiences and published in peer review
Personal characteristics:
- Highly tactful, diplomatic and well liked - able to manage and build strong external and internal relationships with fellow research collaborators, business stakeholders, and colleagues
- Confident and very smart, but humble, motivated self-starter and creative thinker
- Consensus builder, collaborator, negotiator - well respected and credible
- Exceptional problem-solver with high levels of intellectual curiosity
- Flexible, enjoys dynamic environments and dealing with change
- Team-oriented, builds relationships and establishes credibility, a professional who is respected for his/her intelligence and technical expertise
- Solid work ethic, high level of energy, sense of urgency, creativity and decisiveness
- Engaging/open interpersonal style complemented by the analytical pragmatism
- Organized, good at multi-tasking, effectively manages his/her own time and can re-prioritize workflow to meet multiple, often competing stakeholder needs on time.
- Unquestionable honesty, integrity and character that demonstrates high moral and ethical behavior
Company culture/management style:
Our client company has a creative culture of care, invention and inspiration. The pace is fast, and the energy is high. It is comprised of bright, committed people and entrepreneurial spirit, “work hard, have fun, feel good, do great.”
Unlike any other healthcare company, our client company drives the vision of total wellness and preventative health by empowering and enabling everyone to realize their personal best, no matter where they fall on the health scale. Its people are passionate about the company’s mission in leading and understanding how to measure and improve health, well-being, productivity and performance across businesses, regions, communities, individuals, government agencies and countries.
In 2008, our client company achieved the distinction of being selected for FORTUNE magazine’s list of “100 Best Companies to Work For.” Its inclusion on this list is very special. It is a measure of the company’s success in creating and maintaining a culture that enables its more than 4,000 colleagues to do their best work while pursuing the company mission of creating a healthier world, one person at a time.
Why join our client company?
- Outstanding company reputation and expansive influence as a global well-being company - a strong, healthy, positive environment and financial picture, poised for significant growth and a bright future
- Be an impact player in a new, emerging high growth area with enormous opportunity and visibility contributing to company strategy, direction and growth
- Very innovative environment, work within the forefront of Wellness research - the intersection of health, behavior and the economy, helping determine the value of leading a better life and viewing Well-Being and Productivity in a holistic way
- Our client company is the largest company in this new field with significant strategic partnerships, access to the most brilliant minds in the world, the most comprehensive tools and the world’s largest data set to date.
- Incredible infrastructure of platforms and integrated solutions for wellness and disease management with consistent reporting and screens, enormous size, scale and diversity of data, e.g. multi-faceted data from multiple sources, not just claims, for 35 million lives across the globe with a 10 year longitudinal data set, 1000 completed surveys per night and 1 Million surveys to date
- Excellent career opportunity with multiple opportunities for growth and broader responsibility
- Challenge - help solve interesting, complex problems, build something great and make a difference
- Very strong executive team, bright, sharp people and resources
- One of the strongest, most comprehensive employee benefits plans in the U.S., including wellness programs
Travel:
Minimal travel, primarily to conferences and tradeshows
Compensation:
Competitive compensation of salary, annual bonus incentive and an exceptional employee benefits package.
Interview process:
RGBA interviews, evaluation and presentation, followed by interviews with our client company executive management and Health Research and Outcomes team as appropriate.
About the Center for Health Research
The Center for Heath Research is a diverse organization with the mission to constantly rethink how to best inspire healthy lifestyles and support those living with chronic conditions.
Comprised of researchers from many disciplines, the team applies their broad range of expertise to find holistic answers to health questions. The diversity of their backgrounds encourages debate, challenges assumptions and inspires them to keep finding new answers and better questions for innovating healthcare.
The Center for Health Research performs advanced analytics with data collected from millions of participants over twenty-five years of experience. At their disposal is a multi-terabyte healthcare outcomes data warehouse unrivaled in the industry in richness, depth, and breadth which includes claims, pharmacy, laboratory and intervention data. This enables the team to design and conduct multidisciplinary studies that evaluate the intersections behavior change, healthcare utilization, wellness, well-being, and outcomes improvement.
Unique to this team’s research is a very large proprietary well-being database. This revolutionary capability allows more than 1,000 live surveys per night to be conducted across the nation to build a comprehensive and multidimensional measure for health and well-being. It is the voice of Americans and the most ambitious effort ever undertaken to measure what people believe constitutes a good life. To date close to one million surveys have been conducted and this number grows every night. This unique asset, in combination with the incredible wealth of twenty-five years of health care outcomes data, allows the Center for Health Research to conduct studies that no other organization in the world can perform.
This truly multidisciplinary approach to measuring health and well-being, combined with an unparalleled breadth and depth of information allows the team to conduct a vast range of research, and it is used to advance their thinking in all levels of healthcare. Top healthcare journals have published the resulting proven outcomes and theories authored by the Center, and those are made available to the public and our client company partners.
Contact info:
Tom Dillon, Principal
R. Gaines Baty Associates
Dallas TX
972-386-7900 x235
