Senior Research Associate
BresMed, India
Job Description
The successful candidate will be part of the Systematic Review team. The team conducts systematic literature reviews and writes reports to support health technology assessment submissions, the development of health economic models and manuscripts for publication in peer reviewed journals. This role will require the candidate to:
- Assist senior team members in the planning and delivery of projects, which includes the generation of specified evidence to stringent deadlines.
- Conduct preliminary electronic database searches and systematic reviews including citation/full article assessment and data extraction.
- Work with senior team members and statisticians in the UK to synthesise clinical and economic research evidence for statistical analysis
- Quality check data and reports versus source documents
- Write and present research methods, outcomes and reports to the senior team and directly to clients
- Contribute to the writing, editing and submission of academic papers in journal-specific formats
- Utilise reference management software
- Support the development of materials for external meetings such as client presentations, meeting agendas and meeting minutes
- Collaborate with other research associates, statisticians and health economists in the company and participate in local and global project/team meetings as required
- Performs grey literature search and HTA searches.
- Performs screening and second check of abstracts and full text articles.
- Perform extractions and check with minimal support from senior members on the project.
- Inputs into the writing of protocols, develops search strategies, writes report, prepares edata workbooks and other client deliverables.
- Support report writing/protocol writing by preparing tables/writing small sections/doing background search with report writer if required.
- Be a part of client calls on at least 3-4 projects, continually working on building their own knowledge and skills, and is able to share the project status.
- Work on at least 2 conference abstracts participation (ISPOR) or a manuscript.
- Work on at least 8-10 different disease areas and at least 6 clinical and 6 economic reviews.
- Identify genuine process and improvement steps and discuss with VP.
- Act as a key project resource on at least 5 projects and help maintain citations.
- Responding to those team queries where able to and maintaining the query log.
- Compiles work ready for review/submission.
- Performs linking and conference searching.
Requirements
Due to the project-based nature of the role, the successful candidate will need to have an enthusiasm for variety along with a flexible attitude. Essential requirements are a science degree, preferably pharmacology, pharmacy, medical or biology based, good English writing skills and core experience in systematic reviews. The candidate needs to be organised with particular excellence in time and project management, meticulous, reliable, and self-motivated. Interpersonal and communication skills are imperative as is the ability and interest to be a team leader and mentor.
Benefits
- Competitive salary (dependent on experience)
- Paid leave: 33.5 annual leave inclusive of 11 public holidays and 9 sick leaves
- Healthcare and wellbeing benefits