Senior Associate, Clinical Outcomes Assessment

When our values align, there's no limit to what we can achieve.
 
At Parexel, we all share the same goal - to improve the world's health. From clinical trials to regulatory, consulting, and market access, every clinical development solution we provide is underpinned by something special - a deep conviction in what we do.

Each of us, no matter what we do at Parexel, contributes to the development of a therapy that ultimately will benefit a patient. We take our work personally, we do it with empathy and we're committed to making a difference.

We are currently seeking a Senior Associate, Clinical Outcomes Assessment to join Parexel's growing team. This role offers a unique opportunity to support our team of clinical outcome assessment (COA) scientists in the evaluation of discrete event modelling made with patient input. The existing team includes psychologists with a broad range of experience in industry, academia and clinical practice.

As a Senior Associate, Clinical Outcomes Assessment, you will be responsible for COA projects on Instrument validation, Implementation and COA Analyses, Qualitative Interview Studies as well as, potentially, Preference designs including Discrete Choice Experiment survey design and providing strategic input and advice to our clients.

Key responsibilities:

• Support Qualitative interviews with Patients, Clinicians and Caregivers, ePRO vendor oversight, Psychometric Validation analyses, Patient Preference and DCE projects.

• Design, conduct, and analyze psychometric as well as health-related user preferences studies.

• Advocate behavioral science methods more broadly across the Parexel and clients and generalize learnings into a framework that can help bring behavioral science to scale.

• Develop proposals and study protocols that include elements of experimental design.

Qualifications:

• Ideally a recognized or up and coming expert in the field of COA implementation or validation, demonstrated through publication records, involvement in relevant special interest groups (e.g. ISPOR, ISOQOL).

• Minimum of 3-4 years’ experience in COA Validation and Psychometrics, as established by publication records.

• Strong scientific and regulatory knowledge of relevant guidelines.

• Minimum MSc, PhD preferred in a relevant discipline (e.g. Psychology, Statistics, Outcomes Research).

• Fluent in vocal and written English.

• Additional languages – highly desirable i.e. Spanish

• East Coast Candidates Highly Preferred

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Parexel is an equal opportunity employer.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected status, which in the US includes race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.