WELCOME to Aetion! We are a global leader in science-driven technology using real-world evidence to provide innovative healthcare solutions. Our Discover and Substantiate applications, powered by the Aetion Evidence Platform, are used to evaluate the safety, effectiveness and value of medications, delivering better outcomes to patients, medical professionals, and clients. We’ve partnered with top biopharma companies and are backed by leading venture capital firms to help increase our medical research and expand our product line. Aetion is headquartered in the US and has expanded throughout Europe with a Research and Development Hub in Barcelona.
Aetion and Aetion’s leadership are recipients of several prestigious awards:
Come join us!
PERKS of being an A-Teamer:
- 25 vacation days
- Daily in-office lunch stipend (and a fully stocked kitchen)
- Sabbatical opportunity after five years of employment
- Commitment to professional development opportunities
- Employee-led initiatives including annual company-wide innovation day & DEI resource groups
- Comprehensive private health coverage w/ out-of-network reimbursements options
- Peer & company recognition programs
- Monthly educational lunch & learns
DESCRIPTION:
As a Senior Scientist, you will apply epidemiological methods to deliver scientific studies (descriptive, comparative, effectiveness, adherence and others) using RWE to help our customers create impactful evidence.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Serve as study lead throughout the lifecycle of client-facing RWE studies including:
- Study planning
- Protocol development
- Study execution
- Review and interpretation of study results
- Lead discussions with clients to solidify study design decisions and interpret results with guidance from senior science colleagues
- Develop high-quality study materials & deliverables with guidance from senior scientific colleagues
- Serve as the day to day client facing contact for given RWE study; Serve as primary presenter of content and facilitator of discussions at client facing meetings with significant guidance from senior science colleagues
- Work with customers and Aetion teammates to create and implement detailed protocols for scientific use cases and scientific validation studies
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of Aetion’s scientific assets such as study templates and quality processes, library of clinical phenotypes/algorithms, best practice documents, and other deployable scientific components, and (as applicable) contribute to Center of Excellence knowledge base
- Contribute to external thought leadership including submission of conference abstracts, authorship of manuscripts.
- Career growth opportunities will also include additional responsibilities in leadership, process development, team mentoring, and recruiting.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Basic Qualifications
- MPH, MS in epidemiology, biostatistics, health services research, health economics or a related quantitative field (e.g. applied mathematics) and 2+ years of experience in a quantitative area within a healthcare or medical products organization, preferably client-facing
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience conducting analytics with secondary data sources
- Good understanding of analytic approaches, analytical and software tools (eg, R, Aetion Evidence Platform), and computing environments
- Substantial experience working with at least 1 type of healthcare databases relevant to pharmacoepidemiology/HEOR
- Familiarity with principles of feasibility assessment, observational study design and data analysis
- Working knowledge of study design and analytic methods, and/or working knowledge of research methodology and statistical methods
- Ability to draw insights from the scientific results; highlight strengths and limitations and impact of the limitations in written documents; communicate the interpretation of results to the client
- Good ability to effectively communicate verbally and in written form, including interpretation of statistical findings; and present findings on the context of the research objectives
- Ability to engage with customers in-person, on the phone, and in writing.
- Experience in cross-functional teams and decision making
- Ability to self-motivate
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate and successfully work with internal staff and external partners
- Resilient, collaborative, flexible, innovative
Aetion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Aetion is committed to being an employer of choice, not just a good place to work, but a great and inclusive place to work. To that end, we strive to recruit and maintain a workforce that meaningfully represents the diverse and culturally rich communities that we serve. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disabled status or, genetic information.
