Epidemiologist

Cypartners; Brentford; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruiting firm is looking for an experienced Epidemiologist for a 12-month contract. This role, which offers flexible remote/hybrid working, involves analysing comprehensive epidemiological data and supporting drug development strategies. Applicants should have a PhD in Epidemiology or a related field and expertise in real-world data applications. Join us to influence patient outcomes on a global scale.

Qualifications

• Experience in pharma or equivalent academic/government expertise.
• Strong application of epidemiological methods.
• Proven leadership of pharmaco-epidemiologic programmes.

Responsibilities

• Analyse incidence, prevalence, risk factors and natural history.
• Support clinical trial strategy and strengthen patient recruitment.
• Conduct epidemiology studies for risk evaluation.

Skills

Epidemiologic methods

Communication skills

Leadership in pharmaco-epidemiologic programmes

Analytical skills

Education

PhD in Epidemiology

Job description

📣 CY Partners – Recruiting Now!
Epidemiologist (12-month contract, Remote/Hybrid)

CY Partners is delighted to partner with a world-leading pharmaceutical organisation to recruit an experienced Epidemiologist for a 12-month contract. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in evidence generation that shapes drug development, clinical strategy and post-marketing activities. The role offers flexible remote/hybrid working and the chance to collaborate with global experts across R&D.

What you’ll do

In this highly impactful role, you will:

• ✔ Advance disease understanding
  – Analyse incidence, prevalence, risk factors and natural history
  – Assess treatment patterns, comorbidities/co-medications, biomarkers and unmet needs
  – Explore variations across demographics and geographies
• ✔ Support clinical trial strategy
  – Identify target populations and optimise protocol design
  – Strengthen patient recruitment strategies
  – Lead patient medical history data evaluation
• ✔ Contribute to medication safety evaluation
  – Provide background event rates and synthesise existing evidence
  – Conduct meta-analyses and identify high-risk populations
• ✔ Drive post-marketing surveillance
  – Support risk-evaluation and mitigation strategies (REMS)
  – Conduct epidemiology studies for signal detection and inference
  – Lead post-authorisation studies on benefit–risk profiles
• ✔ Generate and appraise evidence
  – Critically evaluate existing epidemiological data
  – Design research plans and protocols
  – Conduct robust analyses using healthcare databases (real-world evidence)

About you

We’re looking for an established epidemiologist who brings:

• experience in pharma, or equivalent academic/government expertise
• Strong application of epidemiologic methods across safety, effectiveness and disease-natural-history research
• Proven leadership of pharmaco-epidemiologic programmes and confident use of real-world data (EMR or claims)
• Excellent communication skills, with experience presenting scientific evidence
• PhD in Epidemiology or a closely related discipline (public health, health outcomes, health services research, statistics or pharmaceutical sciences)

Why apply?

This is a fantastic opportunity to apply your epidemiological expertise to real-world challenges, influence global drug development decisions and contribute directly to patient impact.

Interested?
Get in touch with CY Partners today to discuss this role in more detail and take the next step in your career.