Healthcare Survey Methodologist

Obsidian; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI research organisation to engage experienced healthcare market research, survey methodology, and pharmaceutical insights professionals for an urgent research initiative to design and review physician and patient surveys.

We are looking for professionals who have designed, programmed, fielded, reviewed, or advised on healthcare survey instruments, particularly research involving physicians, patients, or other healthcare professionals.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of healthcare/pharma research experience.
• Experience designing and fielding surveys with physicians, patients, or HCPs.
• Strong questionnaire design and survey methodology knowledge.
• Understanding physician research considerations and terminology.
• Experience with patient surveys and patient journey concepts.
• Familiarity with pharma market research environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, review, and refine physician and patient survey instruments for pharmaceutical and healthcare research.
• Translate research objectives into clear, methodologically sound questionnaires.
• Evaluate screeners, eligibility criteria, question wording, response scales, survey flow, branching/skip logic, and overall instrument structure.
• Identify leading, ambiguous, overly technical, or otherwise problematic questions.
• Ensure questionnaires are appropriately constructed for physician, specialist, PCP, and patient audiences.
• Review survey length, respondent burden, ordering effects, recall requirements, and potential sources of measurement bias.
• Assess whether questions will generate reliable, interpretable, and decision-useful data.
• Incorporate pharmaceutical and healthcare market-research conventions into survey design.
• Collaborate with therapeutic-area specialists to ensure questions are clinically accurate and appropriately framed.
• Where qualified, independently review both the research methodology and therapeutic-area content of an instrument.
• Provide clear written explanations and actionable recommendations for survey improvements.

Skills

Healthcare market research

Survey methodology

Questionnaire design

Pharmaceutical research

Tools

Qualtrics

Decipher/Forsta

Alchemer

SurveyMonkey

Job description

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI research organisation to engage experienced healthcare market research, survey methodology, and pharmaceutical insights professionals for an urgent research initiative to design and review physician and patient surveys.

We are looking for professionals who have designed, programmed, fielded, reviewed, or advised on healthcare survey instruments, particularly research involving physicians, patients, or other healthcare professionals.