Associate, Quantitative Patient-Centered Research

IQVIA • Providence, RI

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About The Position

At IQVIA, our Patient Centered Solutions (PCS) team is dedicated to integrating the patient voice into medical research and development. Our scientific consulting services group conducts qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods studies to better understand the patient, clinician, or caregiver experience. Projects range in size, type, and across multiple disease areas, and include survey development, modification, and validation to support medical product development; strategic consulting for regulatory needs; exploratory analyses of existing data; literature review and gap analysis; and non-interventional studies with conceptualization, primary data collection, analysis, interpretation/synthesis, and dissemination phases. We recently joined forces with QualityMetric and in this role you will be part the QualityMetric quantitative scientific team. You'll enjoy a rewarding career in a collaborative, multicultural environment that values growth and development. Role Overview: Join IQVIA as an Associate Consultant and play a key role in supporting primary literature reviews, data collection efforts, and analysis/reporting of quantitative or qualitative data. Your expertise will support customers in life science and population health markets with patient reported outcome (PRO) and other clinical outcome assessment (COA) solutions, and will directly influence the success of clinical trials and patient-centered, observational studies. This is an entry-level role, but you will receive the training, mentorship, and experience needed to advance in a research career track.

Requirements

• Master’s degree plus relevant experience in a related field including Psychology, Epidemiology, Sociology, Economics, Statistics, Public Health, or other social science-related field
• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint); experience with bibliographic software, such as Zotero
• Fluency in English

Nice To Haves

• Experience in survey research/measurement, quantitative research methods, and literature search methods preferred.

Responsibilities

• Learn about survey research methods and qualitative and quantitative methods in healthcare research and assist scientific team members in conducting research projects to better understand how disease and treatment affects patients
• Supports and assists research teams with study design, literature reviews, development of study materials, data management and analysis, and quality assurance
• Conducts thorough, detailed review of survey materials to detect and document deviations from source content and copy edits documents for formatting, accuracy, and other typographical errors
• Prepares and edits presentations (PowerPoint slides) and spreadsheets (Excel files)
• Supports basic project management activities, including facilitating meeting arrangements and minute-taking, maintaining and communicating project timelines, and assisting with document management/filing
• Works well independently while also working in diverse, cross-functional teams

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level