Head of Epidemiology

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🌐 United States, United Kingdom – Remote

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

💵 $200k - $245k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Lifelancer

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2020

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💰 Pre Seed Round on 2022-03

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Lifelancer is an AI-powered talent hiring platform that connects employers with skilled professionals in the Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, and IT sectors. It enables individuals to create profiles showcasing their skills, get matched with high-paying international jobs or projects, and facilitates hiring and payroll for employers in multiple countries. The platform aims to streamline the hiring process with efficient AI sourcing and compliance support.

📋 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 capability roadmap for epidemiology • 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 • Contribute epidemiology expertise to integrated evidence strategies and delivery models • Serve as senior scientific sponsor for selected complex or high-risk epidemiology programs • Ensure epidemiology strategies and deliverables meet 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 scientific, quality, delivery, financial, and relationship risks • Ensure appropriate application of epidemiologic and causal-inference methods, natural history, external control arms, time-to-event methods, and regulatory frameworks • 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 and accountable epidemiology culture • Model Fortrea culture, business ethics, scientific integrity, and responsible decision-making • Perform other duties as needed or assigned

🎯 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 (e.g., MS/MPH) with relevant and equivalent experience and successful project outcomes in lieu of educational requirements • Recognized scientific and strategic leadership in epidemiology and 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 • Strong understanding of 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 • 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 • Successful experience with external control arms/synthetic controls, natural history studies, and HEOR deliverables • 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 • Regular and consistent attendance • Ability to access and use a variety of computer software developed both in-house and off-the-shelf • Ability to travel internationally to support the business as needed

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Life insurance • STD/LTD • 401(K) • ESPP • Paid time off (PTO) or Flexible time off (FTO) • Company bonus where applicable • Occasional domestic and international travel • Remote home-base work environment