Director – Sports Epidemiology

Director – Sports Epidemiology

Requirements

• Master’s degree required; Ph.D. preferred. Graduate education in epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, public health with concentration in epidemiology, pharmacy with concentration in epidemiology or relevant scientific field.
• Candidates with a Master’s degree should have 10 or more years of relevant experience.
• Candidates with a Ph.D. should have 7 or more years of relevant experience.
• Relevant expertise in athlete injury, health, orthopedics, concussion preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serves as project director or partnership lead on client facing or internal projects.
• Manages staff in accordance with organization’s policies and applicable regulations. Responsibilities include planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance and guiding professional development; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing employee relations issues and resolving problems, and helping the department achieve its quality and finance goals.
• Develops and communicates vision for sports injury programs in collaboration with senior leadership.
• Leads specific research initiatives.
• Authors protocols, reports and presentations with independent, critical thinking to ensure quality and completeness of output, oversees timeline for deliverables associated with analytics and deliverables.
• Reviews and provides relevant epidemiological input to statistical analysis plans and analysis output.
• Provides senior epidemiology oversight and review work of peers and junior staff in areas including observational study methods, statistical methods, and sources and measures for resource utilization and costing.
• Reviews team resourcing and manages team allocation across sports injury programs.
• Oversees financial management of sports injury programs/projects including coordination with internal business development and finance teams and leads negotiations with client on budgeting and financial health. And identifies client-related, budget-related and internal issues that may require attention or escalation.
• Review budgets for proposals and monitor budgets for contracted work to assure project completion within scope and budget.
• Works collaboratively and creatively including process improvement to achieve ‘best practices’ and to support effective delivery.
• Helps define and provide appropriate levels of professional development and training for staff.
• Represents IQVIA and clients externally through meetings and conference presentations.
• Oversees and conducts statistical analysis as needed.
• Leads client engagements throughout the study process; follow up with client post-delivery to ensure satisfaction and delivering high-value, high-impact evidence.
• Remain current on sports and healthcare industry, clients, and competitive trends and directions in order to anticipate and identify new business challenges and issues with assigned clients.
• Mentor, coach, and share subject matter expertise with others to help develop individuals and capabilities delivering world-class scientific solutions for clients.
• May be external thought leader to set industry best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.