Director, Patient-Centered Outcomes

Lumanity; Greater London; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonus

Pension

Private Healthcare

Dental Cover

Enhanced Eye Care Cover

Electric Car Scheme

Staggered working hours

Job summary

Lumanity is seeking an experienced Director of Patient-Centered Outcomes to guide COA strategy for clinical development programs. You will supervise teams, liaise with clients, and contribute to business development while advancing patient-centered methodologies.

Responsibilities include strategic guidance, project oversight, and mentoring junior staff, with opportunities to present at conferences and publish in peer-reviewed journals.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in health-related field required; master's or doctorate preferred.
• At least 8 years relevant work experience in patient-centered outcomes.
• Knowledge of the drug development process and regulatory guidelines for patient-centered outcomes.
• Excellent English communication skills; liaising with clients internally and externally.
• Experience in consulting.
• Published work in peer-reviewed journals and/or presented at conferences.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and scientific guidance on COA strategy to clients and internal teams.
• Review project deliverables to ensure quality and accuracy.
• Support business development by writing proposals and nurturing client relationships.
• Manage projects, delegating tasks and leading client meetings; mentor junior staff.
• Present at conferences or publish work to showcase capabilities.

Skills

Patient-centered outcomes

COA development

Literature reviews

Regulatory guidelines

Project supervision

Business development

Publications/presentations

Consulting experience

Education

Undergraduate degree in health-related field

Master's or Doctorate preferred

Job description

Overview / About us

Lumanity is dedicated to improving patient health by accelerating and optimizing access to medical advances. We partner with life sciences companies around the world to generate evidence to demonstrate the value of their product, translate the science and data into compelling product narratives, and enable commercial decisions that position these products for success in the market. We do this through strategic and complimentary areas of focus: Asset Optimization and Commercialization, Value Access and Outcomes, Medical Strategy and Communications, and Real-World Evidence.

Responsibilities / Position overview

Lumanity’s Patient-Centered Outcomes (PCO) team is seeking an experience patient-centered outcomes research professional to serve as our Director of Patient-Centered Outcomes.

As Director, you will beresponsible for providing strategic and scientific guidance to internal (i.e., Lumanity project teams) and external (i.e., clients) stakeholders on various projects related to clinical outcome assessments (COAs), including but not limited to literature reviews, gap analyses, COA development, embedded interviews, natural history survey research, and regulatory and endpoint strategy. Working closely with all project team members, you will also supervise more junior staff.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Apply research to meet clients’ needs, including providing clients with strategic guidance on COA strategy in the context of drug development
• Review project deliverables (e.g., study protocols, study reports, client presentations) to ensure quality
• Support business development efforts by building relationships with new and existing clients, bringing in new leads, and writing proposals for PCO projects
• Manage projects as needed, including developing plans to accomplish all activities within project scope and timelines, delegating project tasks to project teams and leading client meetings
• Contribute to training and mentoring of more junior staff

You will also be expected to present at scientific conferences and/or publish in peer-reviewed journals to further the patient preference research field and demonstrate Lumanity’s capabilities. The individual in this role will also be responsible for an annual business development target.

Qualifications

Requirements include:

• An undergraduate degree in health-related field required (master’s or doctorate degree in a health-related field preferred)
• At least 8 years previous relevant work experience with increasing levels of responsibility in the field of patient-centered outcomes
• Comprehensive knowledge of the drug development process and regulatory guidelines pertaining to patient-centered outcomes
• Excellent English oral and written communication skills and comfort liaising with technical and non-technical clients (both internally and externally)
• Experience in consulting
• Published work in peer-reviewed journals and/or presented at conferences

Preferred (but not essential) skills and experience include:

• Experience with economic evaluations and HTA submissions, including but not limited to literature reviews, gap analyses, documenting the humanistic burden of disease, utility elicitation, patient preference studies and global value dossier development
• Mastery of technical skills in at least some of the following areas: expert elicitation, conjoint analysis, contingent valuation, discreet choice experiments, best-worst scaling, time trade-off and standard gamble methods

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Bonus
• Pension
• Private Healthcare
• Dental Cover
• Enhanced Eye Care Cover
• Electric Car Scheme
• Staggered working hours

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