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Real World Evidence Lead (Associate Director)

San Rafael, CA 94901

Posted: 04/10/2025 Employment Type: Contract Industry: Medical Affairs Job Number: 12112 Pay Rate: $95.00 - $101.00 Remote Friendly: Hybrid

Job Description

Our client focuses on developing first-in-class and best-in-class therapeutics that provide meaningful advances to patients who live with serious and life-threatening rare genetic diseases.


Duties:
  • Implement real world evidence study solutions studies in-line with a products Integrated Evidence Plan under the guidance of a Real World Evidence Product Lead.
Specific activities include:
  • Protocol development and reporting of disease understanding studies (retrospective and prospective) relevant to the target patient population including, risk factors, natural history, burden of illness, treatment patterns, co-morbidities, co-medications, outcomes measures, and unmet need
  • Support post marketing activities including design and/or reporting of post marketing safety and effectiveness studies/registries, evaluation of risk mitigation strategies
  • Support implementation of research plans with external collaborators in academia or contract research organizations and work effectively to oversee external groups through the research process
  • Designs secondary data analysis plans of the Company's clinical and real-world data to support program strategy
  • Perform targeted literature review of epidemiology of disease, including incidence/prevalence and treatment patterns; work with commercial team on product forecasts and write regulatory documents including Orphan Drug Designation applications
  • Analyze raw data sets to conduct feasibility analyses and deliver tables/listings/graphs from in-house or licensed real world datasets in a timely manner

Skills:
  • Demonstrated experience conducting pharmaco-epidemiologic research within or in support of the pharmaceutical industry
  • Understanding of statistical and data analysis, research methods and design
  • Experience (combination of education and work) with real world data analysis (e.g. EHR, claims and registry) supporting RWE/pharmacoepidemiology studies, including statistical programming skills (SAS, Python or R)
  • Knowledge of healthcare data standards (e.g. HL7, FHIR), medical terminologies used in healthcare data (e.g. ICD10), EMRs, and regulations (HIPAA, GDPR) is preferred
  • Ability to work in a business-driven environment, balance priorities and handle multiple tasks through careful planning, stakeholder management, project administration, and organizational skills
  • Self-motivated with the ability to develop credibility with colleagues and interact effectively
  • Ability to individually contribute to activities and projects based on guidance from Real World Evidence Product Lead
  • Experience in collaborating with internal and external research partners
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills and demonstrated ability to communicate scientific evidence
  • Experience in the Epidemiology of rare diseases or Genetic Epidemiology a benefit

Job Requirements

Education:
A combination of academic training and practical experience in Epidemiology is required. This may consist of:
  • Doctoral degree (PhD, ScD, or DrPH) or Master’s of Public Health in Epidemiology and at least 2 years of experience leading epidemiologic research in the pharmaceutical setting
  • Doctoral degree (PhD, ScD or DrPH) or Master’s degree in a relevant discipline (ie. Health services research, health outcomes research, public health, statistics, or pharmaceutical sciences) with at least 5 years of experience leading epidemiologic research in the pharmaceutical setting

Meet Your Recruiter

Melissa Politron
Recruiter

As a Compass Recruiter, Melissa "Mel" is excited about rediscovering her passion in helping candidates find opportunities that will excel their professional lives and improve their personal lives. She brings a deeply-rooted excitement to the team by understanding the people she works with and finding ways she can support them. Mel's connections with others inspires her to make a difference in the overall well being of her colleagues, candidates and clients alike. 

Outside of Compass, Mel enjoys cooking, dancing and being a mom to her three wonderful boys. She has an obsession with home organization and thoroughly enjoys solving other families' organizational needs. Mel is also very passionate about One Heart Source, a humanitarian organization that combats conditions such as poverty, diseases and illiteracy through education. She participated as a summer volunteer teacher in Tanzania and credits the organization for shaping her into the person she is today. 

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