Senior Research Associate

Adelphi Group; England; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Adelphi seeks a Senior Research Associate in Patient-Centered Outcomes to provide research support for COA development and evaluation. The role involves working under supervision with experienced team members to design studies, manage ethics submissions, coordinate recruitment, and analyze interviews across patients, clinicians, and caregivers.

You will contribute to high-quality scientific content, client-ready reports, and written deliverables while ensuring rigorous methodology and attention

Qualifications

• Proven ability to conduct high-quality qualitative and/or quantitative healthcare research.
• Strong written communication for scientific content and client deliverables.
• Experience coordinating research tasks and leading project activities.
• Excellent attention to detail in documentation and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Perform literature searches and critical appraisal of COA instruments.
• Develop study protocols, interview guides, forms, and consent documents.
• Prepare submissions for ethical review boards (centralised/local).
• Manage recruitment of patients, caregivers, or clinicians through various channels.
• Conduct and interpret qualitative interviews (patient, clinician, caregiver).
• Produce high-quality written deliverables meeting clients’ needs.

Skills

Qualitative research

Quantitative research

Written communication

Project coordination

Attention to detail

Job description

Job Description

Senior Research Associate Patient-Centered Outcomes

Agency

Adelphi

Job Function

Strategy and Planning

Job Subfunction

Research and Insights

Job Description

Senior Research Associate Patient-Centered Outcomes

Purpose of the role: Providing research and analysis support to projects focused on the selection, development, evaluation, and implementation of Clinical Outcome Assessments (COA). Position within Adelphi Values: Reports to the assigned senior staff member for line management purposes and to the project lead within each project. Your key activities will be conducted with support, and under the guidance and supervision of more experienced team members.

These Activities Will Include

• Performing literature searches, reviewing abstracts and journal articles, and critically assessing existing COA instruments.
• Developing study protocols and other study documents including interview guides, case report forms, demographic forms, and informed consent forms.
• Preparing and managing submissions for centralised and local ethical review boards.
• Managing recruitment of patients, caregivers, or other participants through recruitment agencies, recruiting clinicians or advocacy groups.
• Conducting, coding, interpreting, and analysing qualitative interviews (e.g., patient, clinician, and caregiver), including concept elicitation interviews, cognitive debriefing interviews, and in-trial/exit interviews.

You Will Demonstrate The Following Competencies

• Ability to efficiently produce high quality written documents (e.g., scientific content, style, and grammar) that meet clients’ needs, and with excellent attention to detail.
• Proficiency in conducting all aspects of qualitative and/or quantitative healthcare research, demonstrating critical thinking in approach to project decisions/activities and preparation of written documents and deliverables.
• Ability to coordinate/lead research tasks, show initiative and ownership of project activities/decisions and next steps to ensure progress.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with project teams/colleagues and clients.

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. Link to Recruitment Privacy Notice: https://www.omc.com/privacy-notice/