Senior Research Consultant, EVA Market Access

Cytel - EMEA; City Of London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data analytics firm in the UK is seeking a skilled professional to manage client projects effectively within budget and scope. This role involves serving as a lead consultant, producing high-quality written content, and providing strategic leadership in HEOR/HTA projects. The ideal candidate should have a Master's degree in a relevant scientific field and 3-5 years of experience within a consulting environment.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in a consulting environment.
• Strong aptitude for audience-focused storytelling through scientific communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead client contact for assigned projects and deliver them within scope and budget.
• Serve as lead consultant and medical writer for written content.
• Review work of junior writers to ensure high-quality delivery.
• Provide strategic leadership for multi-disciplinary HEOR/HTA projects.

Skills

Pharmaceutical industry understanding

Strong analytical skills

Communication skills

Project management experience

Strategic literature research

Education

Master's degree in relevant field

PhD or MD

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Excel

EndNote

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

For over thirty years, Cytel has enabled the world’s biotech and pharmaceutical companies to make confident, evidence-based decisions to ensure successful outcomes. As industry leaders in delivering advanced data analytics solutions, we continually invest in deepening our expertise. Now, in 2025, we have a fully integrated Evidence Value & Access business, with a global team of experts providing industry-leading capabilities in market access, health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) and real‑world evidence (RWE). Powered by the unique experience and expertise of our researchers and consultants around the world, we conceptualize and execute HEOR and RWE studies, using advanced quantitative techniques to prepare sponsors for reimbursement submission and to support a product’s clinical and economic value proposition. Our mission is to help unlock the full promise of data – our teams conduct evidence generation and synthesis, economic analyses, and comparative effectiveness studies to generate the evidence to support the overall product value, with our Access team acting as the evidence hub by which we devise strategy and translate evidence into concise value propositions and communications for payers and other external stakeholders. The Cytel Access team comprises a unique mix of globally-focused consultants, and in‑country teams with extensive experience in local market access and HTA submissions – a critical requirement to meet the needs of the new EU‑JCA regulations on which an increasing amount of our work output is focused.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Acting as the primary point of client contact for assigned projects and being responsible for delivering projects within scope and budget.
• Serving as lead consultant and medical writer for written content, including global value dossiers, AMCP dossiers, value stories/value propositions, objection handlers, and health technology assessment (HTA) submissions.
• Providing strategic leadership on projects, including complex multi-disciplinary HEOR/HTA/JCA market access projects to deliver them within client objectives and timelines.
• Reviewing work of self and junior writers on project teams (including editing and formatting) to ensure delivery of high-quality work that aligns with the client’s needs.
• Acting as the project manager on assigned projects, maintaining timelines and budget, communicating with the client, and ensuring both strategic vision and quality of deliverables.
• Providing leadership/management for projects, including multi-disciplinary projects involving other teams within EVA including literature review, comparative effectiveness and health economics.
• Managing time and workload to meet internal and external deadlines.
• Developing basic visuals and graphics using Excel or PowerPoint.
• Mentoring junior value communication writers on project teams.
• Collaborating with internal partners and external stakeholders.
• Helping to develop competitive, custom proposals in response to RFPs as needed.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Education: Master’s degree in Pharmacology, Biochemistry, Epidemiology, Health Economics or other relevant scientific field. PhD or MD highly desirable.
• Experience: 3‑5 years of experience at a minimum in a relevant consulting environment. May require additional experience depending on focus area.

PERSONAL SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

• Thorough understanding of the pharmaceutical industry and drug development and reimbursement process combined with business acumen.
• Familiarity with the core market access consultancy services and relevant deliverables.
• Strong knowledge and awareness of principles of HTA and the EU Joint Clinical Assessment process from early planning to local implementation.
• Strong aptitude for audience-focused story telling through scientific communication via technical writing, oral communication and presentation skills.
• Strong desk research skills and curiosity to explore, understand and interpret evidence into insights, to support project objectives.
• Keen ability to communicate complex clinical, humanistic, and economic information to diverse audiences, with a focus on payers.
• Comfort with AI tools and research capabilities to support own work, and interest in how this can be developed further.
• Comfort presenting and interfacing with senior executives within our client organizations.
• The ability to work effectively and independently in a sometimes demanding and challenging environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to gain respect of personnel at all levels and collaborate efficiently within a large team.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, and the ability to execute in complex situations.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to foster strong positive relationships on internal collaborative teams and with clients.
• Excellent strategic literature research skills and evidence synthesis (ie, able to efficiently identify key references and perform targeted literature reviews; our team does not conduct SLRs).
• Excellent use of English language with outstanding attention to detail and focus on both accuracy and quality.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
• Excellent time management and ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously while also handling shifting priorities.
• Proactive and conscientious in terms of communication and project management.
• Experience with referencing software (EndNote strongly preferred).
• Project leadership experience.