Healthcare Survey Methodology Lead

Mercor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; 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 in healthcare/pharma research.
• Experience designing or fielding surveys with physicians or patients.
• Strong questionnaire design and survey methodology.
• Familiarity with pharmaceutical market research workflows.
• Ability to provide precise methodological feedback.

Responsibilities

• Design, review, and refine physician and patient survey instruments.
• Translate research objectives into clear questionnaires.
• Evaluate screeners, eligibility criteria, question wording, response scales, survey flow, and logic.
• Identify problematic questions.
• Ensure questionnaires suit physician, specialist, PCP, and patient audiences.
• Review survey length, respondent burden, and potential bias.
• Assess data quality and actionable insights.
• Incorporate market-research conventions.
• Collaborate with therapeutic-area specialists.
• Independently review research methodology and content.
• Provide clear written explanations and recommendations.

Skills

Survey design

Questionnaire design

Healthcare research

Physician/patient surveys

Methodological feedback

Therapeutic-area knowledge

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.