Senior Healthcare Survey Methodologist

Obsidian; Paris; Sur place; EUR 60 000 - 95 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Mercor is seeking experienced healthcare market research professionals to design, review, and refine physician and patient survey instruments for pharmaceutical and healthcare research.

Ideal candidates translate research objectives into clear questionnaires, evaluate screeners and flow, and ensure questions suit physician, specialist, PCP, and patient audiences while minimizing bias. Strong pharma market research knowledge is valued.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of healthcare/pharma research experience.
• Hands-on experience developing or fielding surveys involving physicians, patients, HCPs, or other healthcare stakeholders.
• Strong command of questionnaire design and survey methodology.
• Understanding of physician research considerations such as specialty screening, patient-volume qualification, treatment behaviour, prescribing patterns, and clinical terminology.
• Experience with patient surveys and concepts such as diagnosis history, treatment experience, symptoms, quality of life, adherence, and patient journey research is valuable.
• Familiarity with pharmaceutical market research, commercial insights, medical affairs research, or related life-sciences research environments.
• Experience with platforms such as Qualtrics, Decipher/Forsta, Alchemer, SurveyMonkey, or similar tools is helpful but not required.
• Excellent written reasoning and ability to provide precise methodological feedback.

Responsabilités

• Design, review, and refine physician and patient survey instruments for pharmaceutical and healthcare research.
• Translate research objectives into clear, methodologically sound questionnaires.
• Evaluate screeners, eligibility criteria, question wording, response scales, survey flow, branching/skip logic, and overall instrument structure.
• Identify leading, ambiguous, overly technical, or otherwise problematic questions.
• Ensure questionnaires are appropriately constructed for physician, specialist, PCP, and patient audiences.
• Review survey length, respondent burden, ordering effects, recall requirements, and potential sources of measurement bias.
• Assess whether questions will generate reliable, interpretable, and decision-useful data.
• Incorporate pharmaceutical and healthcare market-research conventions into survey design.
• Collaborate with therapeutic-area specialists to ensure questions are clinically accurate and appropriately framed.
• Where qualified, independently review both the research methodology and therapeutic-area content of an instrument.
• Provide clear written explanations and actionable recommendations for survey improvements.

Connaissances

Healthcare market research

Survey methodology

Questionnaire design

Clinical terminology understanding

Physician/patient surveys

Outils

Qualtrics

Decipher/Forsta

Alchemer

SurveyMonkey

Description du poste

Mercor is seeking experienced healthcare market research professionals to design, review, and refine physician and patient survey instruments for pharmaceutical and healthcare research.

Ideal candidates translate research objectives into clear questionnaires, evaluate screeners and flow, and ensure questions suit physician, specialist, PCP, and patient audiences while minimizing bias. Strong pharma market research knowledge is valued.