The Senior Consultant has a thorough understanding of the breadth of research techniques in Aquarius’ repertoire and how they are used, leads multiple projects (3-5) across different topics with different clients, and has line management responsibilities for Analysts and Consultants.
The responsibilities include:
- Designs projects with the support or partnership (as necessary) of more senior team members.
- Demonstrates end-to-end project management capabilities in the process of successfully delivering projects to completion requiring only periodic high-level support/counsel, to time and budget, and uses internal and external resources effectively and efficiently.
- Manages own time and supervises timelines of team members and their deliverables across multiple projects.
- Defines and monitors project plans and assures project component alignment with overall project plan.
- Assesses and manages project risks and escalates issues.
- Maintains the highest standards of work and thinking and supports others to achieve quality standards.
- Actively engages with clients to create opportunities for new or follow-on business, and engages in strategic discussions, e.g. opportunities or risks, and manages client expectations.
- Drives internal development and supports/provides development and delivery of training (formal or informal).
- Engages in public speaking and presentation (e.g. of research, at conferences, careers events, etc.).
- Demonstrates strategic insight, discusses strategic project decisions with clients and project teams, and gains the confidence of others by their authoritative communication.
- Line manages Analysts/ Consultants and supports them with their professional development.
- Encourages the development of their project team, including project-led learning, identifying areas for development, communicating these to line manager and assisting with development plans.
- Participates in recruitment of junior team members and peers.
- Leads on publication of papers in high-impact peer-reviewed journals and conference presentations and oversees junior members of staff in this task.
- Acts as a mentor promoting high professional ethics/technical standards, demonstrating Aquarius’ values in their work and behaviours (i.e., critical, curious, creative, collaborative, client focused).
- Actively contributes to a culture of collaboration and innovation within team and acts as a role model.
Qualifications
- PhD/MSc in Health Economics, Data Science, Business, Mathematics, Biostatistics, Public Health, or related quantitative/qualitative field, or BSc/BA with equivalent experience and skills
- Previous and proven post-graduate experience
- Fluency in English (written/oral) essential
Experience and skills
Required:
- Extensive experience in health, healthcare, and medical decision problems
- Designing and conducting quantitative analyses, interpreting results and presenting findings
- Designing and conducting literature reviews and synthesising/summarising evidence
- Strong numeracy skills including manipulating data and conducting analyses in Microsoft Excel
- Technical writing skills (peer-reviewed publications, proposals/grants, reports)
- Ability to develop and maintain healthy and productive relationships with clients, collaborators and the internal team
- Experience in project management and delivering results successfully to deadlines; demonstrated ability to prioritise and lead a team
- Experience in managing junior team members
- Experience of research in commercial healthcare markets
- Knowledge and experience of health economic evaluations, economic modelling and costing health services
- Design and build of health economic models
Desirable
- Statistical/econometric analysis and interpretation: designing analyses, interpreting results, and using at least one of the following software/languages: R, STATA, SAS, SPSS
- Experience in conducting qualitative and/or market research, e.g. interviewing, and any qualitative software, e.g. NVivo, Atlas, etc.
- Programming in any language, e.g. Java, C/C++, Python, etc.
- Knowledge of the UK health care system and data sources
- Awareness of UK/International health policy
- Experience working in a consultancy or as a consultant
- Experience of HTA submissions
Person specification
- Highly motivated, ambitious, enthusiastic and committed to making an impact in healthcare
- Excellent work ethic and integrity
- Commercial interest and awareness of healthcare markets and interventions
- A strong client focus, and demonstrable capability to build relationships and negotiate with them
- Ability to network
- A natural communicator: excellent communication skills (written and oral) with people across all levels of expertise
- Good presentation writing and delivery skills
- Able to work independently and in a team
- The capacity to develop strong relationships
- People management skills and strong leadership potential: evidence of positions of responsibility and have intuition for leading a team and stepping up to a challenge
- Multitasking and time management skills and experience
- Able to work under pressure to tight timelines
- Flexible and able to adapt easily and innovate
- Creative, and solutions-focused
- A problem-solver: can demonstrate how you’ve face into a challenge and how you have diagnosed and then solved the problem
- Detail-orientated
- Curious and interested in acquiring new knowledge and skills
- Demonstrates ability to self-reflect and the willingness to develop to address areas of weakness
- 25 days holiday
- Private health care with AXA (once passed 6 month probation)
- Pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee assistance programme
- Personal Development Allowance (£1000 per annum)