STATISTICIAN/PSYCHOMETRICIAN - Homebased (m/w/d)

Overview

IQVIA provides scientific services spanning clinical trials, real world evidence, and consulting in all areas of the product lifecycle. IQVIA has two teams focused exclusively on amplifying the patient’s voice and enhancing their experiences across their health journey: the Patient‑Centered Solutions and Connected Technologies (PACT) team, and the Instrument Licensing Solutions and Patient and Site Strategy (ILS & PASS) team. These teams work closely together to generate patient experience data (PED) through clinical outcome assessments (COAs; including digital health technologies), qualitative research, and patient preference research.

The ILS & PASS team has a small group dedicated to thought leadership and COA instrument development. This “science team” is focused on (a) ensuring that sound scientific principles permeate through the research completed by the PACT and ILS & PASS teams, and (b) leading the development, validation, and qualification of COA instruments to collect reliable and interpretable data from patients in medicines development and routine clinical care.

The ILS & PASS science team comprises dedicated qualitative scientists and COA development scientists. At present it does not have a team of dedicated statisticians and psychometricians. The team is recruiting for a Statistics and Psychometrics Lead, an entry‑level Statisticians/Psychometrician, and a Statistical Programmer to support the teams’ activities, as described below.

Role & Responsibilities

• Empirically develop scoring rules & program scoring algorithms for existing COA measures
• Generate standard scoring documentation, program simulation datasets, Data Quality Evaluation (DQE), and scoring of domains on these datasets for instruments added to the IQVIA ILS library
• Implement new statistical features in the random generation of data, to simulate real‑world instrument data with certain psychometric properties
• Implement advanced statistical capabilities in user tools (Insights Hub, PROCore)
• Work cross‑functionally with non‑statisticians/psychometricians in the PACT and ILS & PASS teams
• Provide statistical support for the development of new COA measures & endpoints
• Program and conduct classical and modern psychometric analyses
• Program and conduct analyses of meaningful thresholds
• Develop, validate, and score DHT‑derived measures and composite scores from multimodal data sources (COA + sensor‑derived data)
• Process and model high frequency and continuous DHT data, including time‑series modelling
• Collaborate with data scientists to support algorithm validation, and verification of digital measure performance across diverse datasets and devices
• Provide statistical support for the COA Accelerator (COAA) tool
• Serve as a subject matter expert for statistics, psychometrics, and scoring of COAs within the COA Accelerator team
• Review COA Accelerator content in support of client subscriptions
• Support thought‑leadership activities and scientific exchanges
• Publish research papers in medical/scientific journals and represent IQVIA at internal and external conferences

About You

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Statistical and psychometric research skills
• Strong computer skills (including SAS and R)
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including grammatical/technical writing skills
• Critical attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong initiative, organizational skills, and commitment to quality
• Ability to work within a team and establish effective working relationships
• Excellent presentation skills to internal and external teams
• Capable of managing multiple tasks and projects in a fast‑paced environment
• Extensive familiarity and demonstrable experience with AI tools and their application to the topics above

Education and Experience

• Advanced degree in statistics or psychometrics with an interest in patient‑centered research (including COA and/or DHT) and clinical research (pharmaceutical or healthcare industry)
• Consulting experience with pharmaceutical companies is desirable

Physical Requirements

Use of telephone (and face‑to‑face) communication extensively; extensive use of a keyboard is expected; the role may require sitting for extended periods and travel as required.

Additional Information

UK visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

EEO Statement

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