Flatiron Health’s mission is to improve and extend lives by learning from the experience of every person with cancer.

Industry: Biotechnology Research
Company Size: 1,001-5,000 employees

Flatiron Health

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Reimagine the infrastructure of cancer care within a community that values integrity, inspires growth, and is uniquely positioned to create a more modern, connected oncology ecosystem.

We’re looking for a Research Scientist to help us accomplish our mission to improve and extend lives by learning from the experience of every person with cancer. Are you ready to be the next changemaker in cancer care?

**What You'll Do**

In this role, you will work as a member of the Research Sciences (RS) department, primarily supporting the Custom Solutions and Services (CSS) team within the Global Evidence business unit. The primary focus for this role is leading execution of real-world data analytics for commercial use cases in biopharma. You may also design and conduct observational research for medical affairs, HEOR, and market access functions, project workload allowing.

Specific responsibilities include:

- Provide subject matter expertise and analytic support for commercial pharma use cases (e.g. market tracking, market segmentation, competitive positioning).

- Design studies leveraging electronic health record (EHR)-derived RWD, develop protocols and statistical analysis plans, oversee the execution of studies in collaboration with statistical programmers, and succinctly summarize and interpret results

- Work collaboratively with cross-functional stakeholders such as project managers and oncologists to execute and deliver on client-sponsored research studies in an accurate, effective, and timely manner

- Build subject matter expertise and discuss capabilities of a variety of different Flatiron data modalities, including EHR-derived real-world data, clinico-genomics data, and claims data, with biopharma clients

- Continue to develop a deeper understanding of real-world data and related methodologies used to generate real-world evidence

- Contribute to improvement initiatives that introduce efficiency into our ways of working and accelerate our ability to generate evidence for our clients

**Who You Are**

You're a kind, passionate and collaborative problem-solver. In addition, you’re an analytical thinker and excellent communicator with experience developing real-world evidence from real-world data (e.g., healthcare claims or electronic health records). You are excited by the prospect of rolling up your sleeves to tackle meaningful problems each and every day.

- You hold a PhD degree in Epidemiology, Health Services Research, Health Economics and Outcomes Research, or a closely related field with 2 - 3 years of relevant experience (can include work experience before graduate school) or a Master’s degree in one of these fields with 4 - 5 years of relevant experience

- You have experience working in a pharmaceutical/HEOR consulting environment

- You have an understanding of commercial biopharma analytics for Oncology, including knowledge of common analytic approaches, an ability to articulate strengths and weakness of common real-world data sources (e.g. claims, EHR), and experience employing descriptive and predictive analytics.

- You have experience and are comfortable programming in R to conduct an analysis upon real-world data to meet project objectives (or another programming language and are committed to developing your skill in R)

- You have strong organizational, time-management, prioritization and decision-making skills necessary to evaluate, plan and implement multiple high-visibility projects in a timely fashion

- You are comfortable working closely with clients to refine and deliver high-quality studies that meet their needs

- You have the ability to work effectively in a constantly changing, diverse, and matrix environment

- You are able to quickly learn and apply new information, skills and procedures

- You are passionate about our mission to improve healthcare through technology

**Where you’ll work**

In this hybrid role, you’ll have a defined work location that includes work from home and 3 office days set by you and your team. For more information on our approach to hybrid work, please visit the how we work website.

Flatiron Health is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Research Scientist

Reimagine the infrastructure of cancer care within a community that values integrity, inspires growth, and is uniquely positioned to create a more modern, connected oncology ecosystem.

We’re looking for a Senior Research Scientist to help us accomplish our mission to improve lives by learning from the experience of every cancer patient. Are you ready to be the next changemaker in cancer care?

**What You'll Do**

In this role, you will work as a member of the Research Sciences (RS) department, primarily supporting the Custom Solutions and Services (CSS) team within the Client Solutions organization. This team provides customized real-world data and real-world evidence solutions to address the most important research questions across clinical development, market access, and commercial use cases for our life sciences partners. As part of CSS, you will:

- Act as a principal investigator on client-facing RWE solutions engagements, accountable for the study design, analytics specification, conduct, and reporting of real-world oncology studies

- Design and execute studies leveraging predictive modeling and causal inference methodologies to support evidence generation and decision-making for medical affairs, clinical development, and related strategic use cases.

- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to devise proposals for RWE data, analytics, and consulting solutions for customer use cases across the oncology product lifecycle

- Engage with clients to drive demand and buy-in for study concepts by demonstrating a deep understanding of the strategic scientific context behind a customer's asset, EHR-derived real-world data, and epidemiologic approaches

- Provide scientific oversight to study team co-investigators and programmers to produce high quality client-facing protocols and statistical analysis plans, ensure accurate implementation of analyses in accordance with study plans, and report valid and reliable results

- Have accountability over project scope, including identifying scope expansion and the need for amendments or additional project budget to complete additional research objectives requested by clients

- Drive repeat business with external stakeholders by fostering a collaborative, productive research environment and through successful delivery of scientifically rigorous study materials

**Who You Are**

You're a kind, passionate and collaborative problem-solver who values the opportunity to think beyond the way things are. In addition, you’re an analytical thinker and excellent communicator with experience or interest in designing studies and analyzing real-world data (e.g., healthcare claims or electronic health records). You are excited by the prospect of rolling up your sleeves to tackle meaningful problems each and every day.

- You hold a Master’s degree in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Data Science (or closely related field) with 7-8 years of relevant experience or a PhD with 4-5 years of relevant experience.

- You have experience in oncology and a deep understanding of observational data and have a track record of success applying epidemiologic approaches and advanced statistical methods to problems in the public health and/or pharmaceutical industry

- You are familiar with predictive modeling or AI methods for solutions supporting oncology clinical development, RWD/RWE, or other regulated healthcare decision-making contexts

- You have experience contributing to the development of machine learning or predictive modeling solutions for clinical research or clinical care applications such as digital twins or clinical trial simulations

- You are proficient in R programming

- You have experience with EHR-derived real-world data and/or claims data

- You have consulting experience within the healthcare domain and are skilled at building and navigating client relationships

- You are an excellent communicator, with experience drafting and developing complex, technical documentation and delivering presentations to scientific audiences

- You have strong organizational, time-management, prioritization and decision-making skills necessary to evaluate, plan and implement multiple high-visibility projects in a timely fashion

- You have the ability to work effectively in a fast-moving, constantly changing, diverse, and matrix environment

- You are passionate about our mission to improve healthcare through technology

- You can deliver messages in a clear and concise way and can articulate complex information to clients in an easy-to-digest format

**Where you’ll work**

In this hybrid role, you’ll have a defined work location that includes work from home and 3 office days set by you and your team. For more information on our approach to hybrid work, please visit the how we work website.

Flatiron Health is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Senior Research Scientist (RWE) - Custom Solutions and Services

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