Senior Consultant, Statistics – Psychometrics
IQVIA
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Barcelona • 🇪🇸 Spain
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Senior
About the role
- Responsible for the on-time completion and the scientific soundness of projects or components of large, complex projects focusing on the psychometric evaluation of Clinical Outcome Assessment (COA) instruments used in clinical trials.
- Plans, organizes, and manages resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives.
- Executes high quality research and analysis of psychometric projects.
- Designs, structures and delivers client reports and presentations.
- Develops client relationships through face-to-face discussions or workshops, telephone or email contact.
- Identifies opportunities for follow-on work and new leads.
- Supports the development of intellectual property for use on future engagements.
- Supports development of proposals focusing on psychometric approaches of COAs and/or digital health technology.
- Develops broader and deeper knowledge of consulting methodologies and pharmaceutical market through on the job experience and training.
- Coaches project team members and supporting them to fulfill their personal objectives.
- Coaches junior staff (not just in projects).
- Leads some learning, development and recruiting activities.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in statistics, biostatistics, psychometrics, and/or quantitative psychology or related field with at least 10 years of related experience, or a PhD with a minimum of 5 years of related experience.
- Experience in consulting, pharmaceutical and/or healthcare industry with evidence of career progression.
- Demonstrated experience using SAS and/or R and expertise in one latent variable software package (e.g., MPLUS).
- Significant experience related to the psychometric evaluation of outcome measures, including classical psychometric methods (e.g., evaluations of test-retest reliability and internal consistency), exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, and/or Item Response Theory.
- Experience working with longitudinal datasets.
- A track record in teamwork and in developing and leading people.
- A willingness or ability to travel.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
psychometric evaluationclinical outcome assessmentclassical psychometric methodsexploratory factor analysisconfirmatory factor analysisitem response theorylongitudinal datasetsSASRlatent variable software
Soft skills
project managementclient relationship developmentcoachingteamworkleadershipcommunicationorganizational skillsanalytical skillsproblem-solvingtraining
Certifications
Master’s degreePhD