Health Economist

Source Health Economics

England

Hybrid

GBP 45,000 - 65,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Option to buy additional leave

Discretionary bonus scheme

Employee health insurance

Cycle to work scheme

Above-average pension contributions

Job summary

A health economics consultancy is seeking a Health Economist or Associate Health Economist to join their growing team in the UK. This role involves working collaboratively to deliver evidence-based solutions for clients, including building cost-effectiveness models and conducting statistical analyses. The ideal candidate will have an MSc in Health Economics or similar, alongside experience in a consultancy environment. This full-time position offers opportunities for personal development and a supportive work culture.

Qualifications

Experience in cost-effectiveness and budget impact model building in a consultancy environment.
Familiarity with the NICE and SMC economic evaluation processes.
Ability to perform basic statistical analyses.

Responsibilities

Undertake research and data collection.
Build cost-effectiveness and budget impact models.
Write technical reports.
Communicate with and present to clients.
Write technical reports.
Communicate with and present to clients.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Critical thinking

Excellent written communication

Excellent verbal communication

Work under pressure

Statistical analysis

Model development

Education

MSc in Health Economics or equivalent

Tools

STATA

Microsoft Excel

Job description

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Source Health Economics is a growing HEOR consultancy specialising in health economics, value communication, systematic review, statistics, and health technology assessment. Since we were founded in 2016, we have achieved our planned year-on-year growth, allowing many opportunities for personal development.

At Source, we have a technically‑excellent, supportive, and friendly team, and pride ourselves on our inclusive and collaborative culture. Our core values are excellence, balance, and growth. We strive to:

Deliver excellence for our clients and patients, whilst
Preserving a good work‑life balance and supporting employee well‑being, and
Providing opportunities for growth for our employees

Why work with us?

Source is a fun, personable company, where our technical teams work closely with each other, enabling us all to learn from some of the best minds in the business. We value our employees, and all employees are encouraged to voice their ideas and contribute to business initiatives, regardless of seniority. Source prides itself on its commitment to employee welfare, as evidenced by our high employee retention.

We have open‑plan offices in Oxford and central London, with hybrid working. Our contractual working hours are 37.5 hours per week, with flexible start and finish times around our core company hours of 10 am to 4 pm.

Alongside an opportunity to actively contribute to a growing company, we offer a competitive salary, 25 days annual leave plus UK bank holidays, option to buy an additional 3 days of annual leave, discretionary bonus scheme, opt‑in employee health insurance, employee life insurance, cycle to work scheme, and above‑average employer pension contributions.

Our health economics team

The health economics team currently consists of 16 people, with six at senior level (Consultant Health Economist level and above). The team works across many different clinical areas including oncology, haematology and a number of genetic conditions. Precise deliverables vary by project, but typically consist of building de novo / adapting existing cost‑effectiveness and budget impact models. Often they are developed as core elements of health technology assessments for submission to agencies such as the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC).

Across the team we offer opportunities for project management and line management (with additional training provided if needed, and particularly when at senior level). There are also opportunities to be involved with non‑project work to support business development and internal process needs.

Every person at Source is highly valued, and we recognise that individual efforts have a considerable impact on the business’s success.

The role

As a Health Economist or Associate Health Economist you will work closely and collaboratively with senior member of the health economics team, project managers, value communication, systematic review, and statistics teams to deliver high‑quality evidence‑based solutions for our clients. You will sometimes also be in a client‑facing role. You will be required to:

Undertake research, secondary data collection and referencing
Input into the development of model specifications
Build cost‑effectiveness and budget impact models in Microsoft Excel™
Undertake basic statistical analysis
Write technical reports
Communicate with and present to clients.

You will need:

Analytical, critical thinking and problem‑solving skills
An ability to work under pressure and to timelines
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
To be able to perform basic statistical analyses in (ideally) STATA
To be able to input on appropriate model methods, data, and assumptions
To be able to identify appropriate UK cost data
To be able to determine, run, and report model analyses
To be able to draft a model specification with some direction
To be able to write a technical report and user guide.
At least a MSc in Health Economics, Maths, Operational Research or equivalent
Cost‑effectiveness and budget impact model building experience in a consultancy environment – either at Associate Health Economist level and ready to step up to being a Health Economist, or as an existing Health Economist
Experience of developing economic evaluations for institutes such as NICE and the SMC and a degree of familiarity with their process and methodological preferences (ideal)