Healthcare Insights & Survey Methodologist

Mercor; New York (NY); Remote; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking experienced professionals in healthcare market research to design and review physician and patient surveys for pharmaceutical and healthcare research. You will translate objectives into rigorous questionnaires, evaluate instrument structure, identify problematic questions, and ensure suitability for physicians, specialists, PCPs, and patients. Collaboration with therapeutic-area experts is essential for clinically accurate content.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in healthcare, pharmaceutical, life-sciences, or medically focused research.
• Hands-on experience developing or fielding surveys involving physicians, patients, HCPs, or other healthcare stakeholders.
• Strong command of questionnaire design and survey methodology.
• Understanding of physician research considerations such as specialty screening, patient-volume qualification, treatment behaviour, prescribing patterns, treatment pathways, and clinical terminology.
• Experience with patient surveys and concepts such as diagnosis history, treatment experience, symptoms, quality of life, adherence, and patient journey research is valuable.

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

Pharmaceutical insights

Survey instrument design

Job description

Mercor is seeking experienced professionals in healthcare market research to design and review physician and patient surveys for pharmaceutical and healthcare research. You will translate objectives into rigorous questionnaires, evaluate instrument structure, identify problematic questions, and ensure suitability for physicians, specialists, PCPs, and patients. Collaboration with therapeutic-area experts is essential for clinically accurate content.