Head of Epidemiology

🔥 13 hours ago

🌐 United States, United Kingdom – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 $200k - $245k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Fortrea

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10,000+ employees

🏥 Healthcare

🧬 Biotechnology

💊 Pharmaceuticals

Healthcare • Biotechnology • Pharmaceuticals

Fortrea is a global clinical research organization (CRO) specializing in providing comprehensive clinical development services to biopharma and MedTech companies. With over 30 years of experience, Fortrea offers a range of services including clinical pharmacology, phase I-IV study management, regulatory strategy, market access, and more. They focus on advancing healthcare innovation by integrating data and scientific expertise to deliver tailored solutions that enable faster decision-making and improve patient outcomes, especially in the realm of cell and gene therapy programs, as well as various therapeutic areas like oncology, cardiovascular, and infectious diseases.

📋 Description

• Provide scientific governance for the most complex or high-risk epidemiology programs • Support selected strategic client relationships and pursuits • Develop senior epidemiology leaders • Guide methods, quality, talent, and service offering priorities within epidemiology • Partner with leaders across Fortrea Consulting and the enterprise on epidemiology, RWE, and Consulting initiatives • Contribute to epidemiology growth strategy and lead selected priorities • Sponsor or provide senior scientific approval for selected high-value epidemiology pursuits and client relationships • Provide epidemiology input to commercial priorities, opportunity-pipeline reviews, and key-account opportunities • Build external scientific relationships and alliances • Shape scientific direction and the epidemiology capability roadmap • Lead priorities for methods, technology, data partnerships, talent, quality, and scalable delivery • Establish governance for scientific standards, review, risk escalation, reproducibility, transparency, and regulatory readiness • Shape Fortrea’s external scientific voice through thought leadership and professional engagement • Serve as senior scientific sponsor for selected complex or high-risk epidemiology programs • Ensure epidemiology strategies and deliverables meet Fortrea’s standards for credibility, relevance, transparency, and defensibility • Advise senior client stakeholders on epidemiology and RWE strategy, evidence gaps, and regulatory, payer, or HTA implications • Provide senior epidemiology escalation and decision support for material scientific and quality risks • Ensure appropriate application of epidemiologic and causal-inference methods, complex applications, regulatory frameworks, and guidance • Lead senior epidemiology leaders and oversee leadership development, succession, and organizational effectiveness • Lead workforce planning, senior hiring, promotion, performance, and deployment decisions • Build an inclusive, accountable epidemiology culture • Model Fortrea culture, business ethics, scientific integrity, and responsible decision-making • Perform other duties as needed or assigned • Travel domestically and internationally and occasionally drive to site locations

🎯 Requirements

• Doctoral-level degree in a discipline-relevant area such as epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, public health, or related quantitative health science; Fortrea may consider a graduate-level degree such as MS/MPH with relevant and equivalent experience and successful project outcomes in lieu of educational requirements • Recognized scientific and strategic leadership in epidemiology and real-world evidence (RWE), including advanced methodology, regulatory-grade evidence, program governance, and capability development • Demonstrated success strengthening an epidemiology capability, complex program portfolio, or strategic client relationship while sustaining scientific quality and client trust • Demonstrated success developing senior scientific leaders and leading multidisciplinary teams through growth and change • Exceptional senior-level communication, judgment, influence, and relationship-building skills across scientific, commercial, and client stakeholders • Strong understanding of epidemiological guidelines, including STROBE/RECORD and ISPE/ENCePP, and major regulatory RWE principles, including FDA RWE Framework, ICH E6(R3), and ICH M14 • 15 years of relevant experience, or doctoral-level degree with at least 12 years, including extensive leadership of complex portfolios, major client relationships, business growth, scientific strategy, and senior leaders • 10 years of experience leading cross-functional teams and developing staff • Applied use of secondary real-world data sources such as claims, EHR, and registries • Experience representing an epidemiology or RWE capability with senior client, regulatory, payer, HTA, industry, and scientific stakeholders • Experience with external control arms/synthetic controls, natural history studies, and HEOR deliverables such as comparative-effectiveness studies, payer evidence, and indirect treatment comparisons • Demonstrated success originating or expanding strategic client relationships and multidisciplinary programs • Track record of building new offerings, markets, partnerships, or delivery models with measurable organizational impact • Experience shaping strategy for an epidemiology or RWE capability and integrating scientific, commercial, people, technology, quality, and delivery priorities • Recognized external influence through scientific leadership, professional organizations, guidance development, publications, or senior advisory roles • Ability to challenge conventional thinking to solve client issues and develop solutions • Ability to access and use a variety of computer software developed both in-house and off-the-shelf • Regular and consistent attendance • Varied hours may be required • International travel to support the business as needed

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical • Dental • Vision • Life insurance • Short-term disability (STD) • Long-term disability (LTD) • 401(K) • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) • Paid time off (PTO) or Flexible time off (FTO) • Company bonus where applicable