Lead Consultant - Evidence Synthesis

What ICON can offer you:
Our success depends on the quality of our people. That's why we've made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.

In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.

Our benefits examples include:

• Various annual leave entitlements
• A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family's needs.
• Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
• Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized professionals who are there to support you and your family's well-being.
• Life assurance
• Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.

• PhD or MSc in Statistics
• 8+ years of experience in evidence synthesis

• Significant experience within a consulting, academic or pharmaceutical/ devices industry environment

• Proven management experience, in particular the ability to lead a team of junior analysts

• Ability to work effectively as part of a team

• High self-motivation

• Leadership potential

Lead Consultant - Evidence Synthesis - Home or office based

• Lead, manage and quality check high quality delivery of evidence synthesis and analytical tasks and projects for clients to time and budget including (but not limited to): indirect treatment comparison, network meta-analysis, survival/statistical analyses.
• Provide strategic and technical expertise both to clients and internally, and demonstrate experience across state-of-the-art methods in evidence synthesis including deterministic and Bayesian network meta analyses
• Proficiency in statistical packages for evidence synthesis including WinBugs/OpenBugs, R
  Understands the role of evidence synthesis within the HTA processes and support preparation HTA submissions,
• Develops study designs and analytic plans to answer research questions.
• Leads development of qualitative and/or qualitative analysis plans for evidence synthesis including network meta-analysis, literature review, statistical analysis and, generates report fit for client submission
• Leads development of deliverable document outline and format.
• Supports other project activities as needed, completes internal documentation and quality-checks the work of others.
• Analyses research problems and conceptually pieces individual scientific tasks together to determine how the overall scientific goal will be achieved
• Develops a comprehensive set of sound recommendations on scientific methods and approaches that help clients meet their goals as well as identify those that will not help clients meet their goals
• Proactively and independently expands knowledge base and remains current on developments, trends and best practices for subject matter expertise
• Efficiently manages own workload with respect to project scope, timelines and quality
• Manages and ensures maintenance of a positive and productive liaison with internal and external contacts, including regulatory agencies, clients, and related institutions.
• Conceptualizes and drafts, or leads, a complete proposal based on a client idea or RFP.
• Responsible for teams' alignment and support of BD efforts, including leading BD opportunities
• Modifies proposals in response to client requests for changes and scientific insight for client's strategic needs.
• Leads project teams and identifies staff resources required for efficiency, presents the scope of work, and executes the scope by providing direction and feedback to that team
• Manages projects against internal timelines and budgets
• Active lead in mentoring/coaching junior staff, and may have formal line management