Health Economist

Adelphi Values PROVE; Macclesfield; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Private Healthcare (incl. family).

Life insurance

Income protection insurance

Gym membership

Further training and development

Job summary

Adelphi Values PROVE is seeking an experienced Senior Health Economist to lead advanced health economic modelling projects for pharmaceutical and biotech clients. The role emphasizes technical excellence, model development, validation, and communication of evidence across product development, market access, and HTA.

You will oversee complex models, guide analysts, and contribute to methodological innovation while engaging in client discussions and project leadership.

Qualifications

• MSc, MPhil, PhD or equivalent in Health Economics or related quantitative field.
• Extensive health economic modelling experience in consultancy, pharma, HTA, or healthcare setting.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities; quality control and technical review skills.
• Experience with modelling techniques: cost-effectiveness, cost-utility, Markov/partitioned survival, budget impact, sensitivity analyses.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of high-quality health economic models (cost-effectiveness, cost-utility, budget impact, cost-consequence).
• Design model structures for clinical/decision-making contexts and validate data inputs.
• Conduct deterministic and probabilistic sensitivity analyses and scenario testing.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to analysts; review junior work and establish best practices.
• Contribute to proposals, study design discussions, and thought leadership.

Skills

Health economics modelling

Analytical problem solving

Leadership and mentoring

Education

MSc/MPhil/PhD in Health Economics or related

Tools

Excel/VBA

R

Python

Job description

We are seeking an experienced and technically strong Senior Health Economist to join our Health Economics and Data Analysis practice area. This role is primarily focused on the design, development, validation, and communication of health economic evidence to support pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients across product development, market access, reimbursement, and health technology assessment (HTA). The successful candidate will lead the delivery of complex health economic modelling projects, provide technical oversight to project teams, and contribute to the development of innovative methodologies and analytical approaches. While client interaction and project leadership are important aspects of the role, the primary focus is on technical excellence and scientific rigour. Your key activities will include (but not be limited to): Health economic project delivery

• Lead the development of high-quality health economic models, including:
  • Cost-effectiveness models
  • Cost-utility models
  • Budget impact models
  • Cost-consequence analyses
  • Early economic models
• Design model structures appropriate to clinical and decision-making contexts.
• Critically evaluate clinical, epidemiological, utility, resource use, and cost data for incorporation into models.
• Conduct deterministic and probabilistic sensitivity analyses and scenario analyses.
• Develop and implement validation, testing, and quality control procedures.
• Prepare technical documentation, model reports, user guides, and methodological justification documents.
• Ensure all deliverables meet the highest standards of accuracy, transparency, and scientific integrity.

Technical Leadership

• Act as the technical lead on assigned projects.
• Provide methodological guidance to analysts and other project team members.
• Review modelling work and written deliverables produced by junior colleagues.
• Establish best practices in modelling, validation, and quality assurance.
• Contribute to the development of standard methodologies, templates, and technical processes across the practice.

Mentoring and Capability Building

• Coach and mentor analysts and health economists.
• Deliver technical training in modelling methods, health economics, and analytic best practice.
• Support the professional development of more junior team members through project-based coaching and formal training programmes.

Business Development Support

• Contribute technical expertise to proposals and pitch materials.
• Participate in study design discussions with prospective clients.
• Provide methodological input into project scoping and budgeting activities.
• Support the development of thought leadership, conference presentations, and scientific publications.

Qualifications

• MSc, MPhil, PhD or equivalent qualification in Health Economics, Economics, Operational Research, Biostatistics, Public Health, Pharmacy, Epidemiology, or a related quantitative discipline.
• Extensive experience in health economic modelling within a consultancy, pharmaceutical company, HTA body, or related healthcare setting.
• Advanced understanding of: Cost-effectiveness analysis, Decision analytic modelling, Markov and partitioned survival models, Budget impact modelling, Sensitivity analysis techniques, HTA requirements across major markets.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong quality control and technical review capabilities.
• Experience using one or more of: Excel/VBA, R, Python, other statistical software packages.

Desirable Skills

• Experience supporting NICE, JCAs, CADTH, PBAC, ICER, G-BA or other HTA submissions.
• Experience with survival analysis and advanced statistical methods.
• Publications in peer-reviewed journals.
• Experience presenting health economic findings to payer or HTA audiences.
• Familiarity with evidence synthesis methodologies.

Opportunities at Adelphi Values PROVE

Values PROVE provides 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.

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. Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we're focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us-we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.