Director

Adelphi Group; Bollington; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Healthcare

Life insurance

Income protection insurance

Gym Membership

Further training and development

Job summary

Adelphi Values PROVE, part of the Adelphi Group, is seeking a Director, Systematic to lead systematic reviews, TLRS and rapid reviews for pharma and HTA projects. You will guide evidence synthesis, support ITCs, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive strategic outcomes.

You will mentor analysts, develop training, and contribute to business development while upholding scientific excellence and a culture of continuous learning.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading systematic reviews and evidence synthesis projects for pharmaceutical clients.
• Strong understanding of HTA evidence requirements across major global markets.
• Experience managing and developing teams in a consulting or life sciences environment.
• Demonstrated success leading client relationships and complex project delivery.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Typically 10+ years of experience in systematic reviews, evidence synthesis, HEOR, market access, or related consulting environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and strategize systematic reviews, TLRS, rapid reviews, and evidence synthesis for pharmaceutical clients.
• Direct business development activities including proposals and pitches for SLR/evidence synthesis projects.
• Mentor and develop analysts and consultants; build a high-performing team.
• Collaborate with Data Analysis and Statistics teams to ensure rigorous ITCs and methodological rigor.
• Provide leadership for evidence generation plans and HTA submissions across global markets.

Skills

Systematic reviews leadership

HTA requirements knowledge

Team leadership

Client relationship management

Communication skills

10+ years experience in HEOR/market

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in life sciences/health economics/public health

Job description

Agency:

Adelphi

Job Function:

Strategy and Planning

Job Subfunction:

Research and Insights

Job Description:

Company: Adelphi Values PROVE, part of Adelphi Group (an Omnicom Healthcare Company)

Job Location: This role will ideally be based in our Head office in Bollington, UK. We are open to discussing flexible options.

The Role

The Director, Systematic will provide strategic leadership for systematic literature reviews (SLRs), targeted literature reviews (TLRs), rapid reviews, evidence gap assessments, and liaise with the Data Analysis and statistics team to ensure smooth conduct of indirect treatment comparisons (ITCs) to support our pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and market access clients.

Key Responsibilities

Literature Review and Evidence Synthesis

• Ensure all projects are delivered in accordance with current best practice and relevant guidance, including PRISMA, Cochrane, ISPOR, NICE, EUnetHTA/JCA requirements.
• Act as scientific lead on complex or high-profile client engagements and lead assigned projects with the team.
• Review and approve protocols, search strategies, screening approaches, extraction plans, evidence tables, and final reports.
• Provide strategic guidance on evidence generation plans and evidence synthesis approaches.
• Support cross-functional projects involving health economics and market access.

Business development and innovation

• Contribute to the commercial growth of the consultancy through proposal development and pitching activities.
• Lead or support competitive proposals for SLR and evidence synthesis projects.
• Develop strategic client opportunities and identify emerging market needs.
• Contribute to publications, conference presentations, white papers, and methodological research.

Team leadership and capability building

• Work with the senior leadership team to develop and implement a long-term vision for the systematic review function, developing a high-performing team of analysts, consultants, and senior consultants.
• Lead structured training programmes covering key topics within systematic reviews and evidence synthesis, such as evidence synthesis methodology, critical appraisal, evidence interpretation, and HTA requirements.
• Mentor team members through coaching, technical development, and career planning.
• Foster a culture of scientific excellence, collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Lead resource planning and workforce capability development in relation to systematic reviews, to support business growth.

About you

Essential skills

• Bachelor’s or Masters degree in a relevant subject, such as life sciences, health economics or public health
• Extensive experience leading systematic reviews and evidence synthesis projects for pharmaceutical clients.
• Strong understanding of HTA evidence requirements across major global markets.
• Experience managing and developing teams in a consulting or life sciences environment.
• Demonstrated success leading client relationships and complex project delivery.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Typically 10+ years of experience in systematic reviews, evidence synthesis, HEOR, market access, or related consulting environments.

Desirable skills

• Expertise in indirect treatment comparisons and network meta-analysis.
• Experience supporting HTA submissions, including NICE, CADTH, HAS, G-BA, and EU JCA processes.
• Track record of peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations.
• Experience implementing AI-assisted literature review workflows.

What a career at Adelphi Values PROVE can offer you

Opportunities at Adelphi Values PROVE provide the perfect opportunity to develop your career in the healthcare industry consultancy with a focus on HEOR and Market Access. You’ll be working in a supportive team where your contribution will be valued and your development and professional growth is seen as a priority. With this in mind, training is available at every stage of your career.

We enjoy spending time together as a team, running regular socials. Recent activities have included quiz evenings, local team walks, Quarterly meetings and regular get togethers. Giving back has always been important to our team, each year we support one charity, as well as having fundraising activities across our offices.

As well as a supportive, fun and collaborative team you’ll have access to the following benefits:

• Competitive compensation package
• Private Healthcare (Including couples and family options)
• Life insurance
• Income protection insurance
• Gym Membership
• Further training and development

Who we are

Adelphi Values PROVE is a leading healthcare value consultancy that works with a range of healthcare product and service providers, aiding development and commercialisation. We are passionate people working as integrated global teams, growing a respected healthcare value consultancy business that is committed to personal development and rewarding high performance. We are as proud of our culture and our approach to people and their working environment, as we are of our reputation and the things that make us unique.

Our purpose is to improve patients’ lives by informing healthcare decisions. To do this we help our clients bring healthcare products and services to the market successfully by investigating, developing and communicating scientific evidence that defines value and informs decisions.

Adelphi Values PROVE is part of the Adelphi Group. Adelphi’s offer spans the lifecycle of pharmaceutical development, with comprehensive services in Strategic Product Development Consultancy, Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Real World Disease Understanding, Marketing Research, Medical Communications and Post-meeting Brand Support Services. Adelphi has a global network of offices across US, Europe and Asia and over 800 staff worldwide.

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

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