Medical Data & Insights Consultant

Quinten Group; Paris; Hybride; EUR 70 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Quinten Health is seeking a Medical Data and Insights Consultant to join the Healthcare team, collaborating with Data Scientists, Biostatisticians, and Project Managers. You will be supported by two senior consultants and may work on projects to personalize treatment pathways and predict trial outcomes.

The role emphasizes clinical input, data structuring, and communication of insights through reports and publications, with emphasis on real-world evidence and engagement with clients.

Qualifications

• Medical degree or higher in life sciences and relevant experience.
• First professional experience in pharmaceutical/healthcare consulting or real-world evidence projects.
• Strong understanding of pharma industry, regulatory landscape and clinical development processes.
• Ability to lead client discussions and communicate complex ideas clearly.
• Proficiency in English, both written and spoken.

Responsabilités

• Collaborate with data science engineers to assess Real-World databases and data quality.
• Provide clinical and scientific input to support analyses (e.g., modeling).
• Define target populations, outcomes, covariates and confounders for studies.
• Develop code lists for diagnoses, treatments and procedures.
• Structure data to reflect medical relevance and differential disease states.
• Create variable derivation strategies to maximize information from data.
• Interpret analysis outputs and provide insights aligned with medical objectives.
• Write reports and scientific publications to communicate results.
• Engage with data scientists, epidemiologists, statisticians, and project managers on scientific aspects.
• Perform administrative tasks as required.

Connaissances

Client-facing

English proficiency

Organizational skills

Strategic thinking

Team collaboration

Formation

Medical, PharmD, PhD or MSc in life sciences

First working experience in pharma/healthcare consulting or RWE

Knowledge of pharma industry, regulation, clinical development

Outils

R

Python

PySpark

Electronic health records / claims databases

Description du poste

Quinten Health is recruiting a Medical Data and Insights Consultant to join the Healthcare team, working in close collaboration with Data Scientists, Biostatisticians, and Project Managers. You will be supported by two senior medical data and insights consultants.

You might be involved in a project such as:

• Identify risk factors of disease progression to personalize treatment pathways;
• Identify sub-groups of patients who are better responders to a treatment;
• Predict long-term risk of exacerbation to anticipate the design of trials;
• Simulate long-term treatment effect scenario to bridge efficacy to effectiveness.

Your key responsibilities will be:

1. Working in collaboration with the team of data science engineers to:

Assess the fitness of Real-World databases,

Provide clinical and scientific input to support analytical work (e.g. modeling):

• Capturing clinical characteristics in real-world databases, including finding proxies for clinical events and/or scores, time windows for data capture,
• Defining the target study population, outcome of interest, covariates, and confounders
• Providing code lists for diagnosis, treatments, procedures, etc…

Structure the data to ensure the quality of the analysis from a medical point of view (e.g. capture and interpret chronic and acute diseases differently),

Develop variable derivation strategies to extract a maximum of information from data (e.g. therapeutic escalation to measure a patient’s severity),

Adapt the analytical strategy to align the results with the medical objectives of the project.

Interpret the output of analyses, assess findings, and provide relevant insights based on existing literature,

Write reports and scientific publications to communicate study results,

Give input on the scientific aspects of projects, coordinating with data scientists, epidemiologists, statisticians, and project managers.

Performs necessary administrative functions and additional tasks, as required.

2) Supporting the Project Managers in the engagement of customers to:

Provide pharmaceutical competitive intelligence and portfolio screening to support project business strategy,

Engage with clients, with senior staff involvement for understanding the strategic needs of the client and translating them into actionable solutions.

3) Contributing to the innovation and development activities of the organization to:

Perform literature reviews on a therapeutic area or disease to identify and describe unmet needs, pathophysiology, standard of care tailored to the specific activity,

Assess potential data sources and partnerships to support the development of disease and care models,

Engage with scientific or medical KOLs to provide relevant insights and validation of internally developed disease and care models,

Participate in company-sponsored training programs as required to ensure that skills are learned, maintained, and focused accordingly.

Preferred education and required experience:

Medical, Pharm D degree, PhD or Master’s Degree in life sciences (pharmacology, physiology, cognitive etc.),First working experience (excluding internship and/or apprenticeship) on relevant professional area (e.g., in the pharmaceutical industry, medical writing, academic or clinical research, or health-related consulting or real-world evidence (RWE) projects)Knowledge of pharmaceutical industry, healthcare regulation, clinical development processes, and medical practice,Client-facing mindset with good communication; ability to lead discussions and act as a subject matter expert in interactions with clients,Experience contributing to clinical research projects, including clinical trials, observational studies, cohort studies, baseline assessments, and study design activities,Professional proficiency in English, written and spoken,Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.Strong organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks and projects,Ability to make decisions and think strategically,Experience with claims databases or electronic health records (such as SNDS, CPRD, HES, sickness funds data, national or disease registries).Additional skills that would be a “plus”:Experience in epidemiology,Basic knowledge of programming (e.g., R, Python, PySpark) is valued to facilitate dialogue around statistical analyses and the interpretation of tables and figures,Knowledge of statistical and machine-learning methods,Experience in the analysis of -omics (RNA expression, genetic analyses, etc.).