Job Description

Overview / About us

Lumanity is dedicated to improving patient health by accelerating and optimizing access to medical advances. We partner with life sciences companies around the world to generate evidence to demonstrate the value of their product, translate the science and data into compelling product narratives, and enable commercial decisions that position these products for success in the market. We do this through strategic and complimentary areas of focus: Asset Optimization and Commercialization, Value, Access, and Outcomes, Medical Strategy and Communications, and Real-World Evidence.

Lumanity applies incisive thinking and decisive action to cut through complex situations and deliver transformative outcomes to accelerate and optimize access to medical advances. By transforming data and information into real world insights and evidence, Lumanity powers successful commercialization and empowers patients, providers, payers, and regulators to take timely and decisive action. With offices in North America, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and Asia, and work conducted in over 50 countries, its 1,300+ experts work with nearly all the top pharmaceutical companies and more than 100 biotech companies around the world. Turning aspiration into reality, Lumanity supports over 50 payer submissions across 20+ countries, launch readiness and commercialization of 80 brands and new indications, and numerous award-winning product campaigns every year.

Our Evidence Evaluation and Synthesis team is an integral part of Value, Access, and Outcomes practice, driven by the purpose to bring medical advances to market, sustained by our culture, passionate about our development, and enthusiastic about our careers. The people in our Team are talented, trusted, open, supportive and from diverse backgrounds. We strive to create an environment where we nurture our talent, celebrate our success and foster trust. Our Team enthusiastically works and collaborates with globally diverse workforce from all different backgrounds, advancing learning and developing along with cross-team and cross-cultural working. We have an amazing office in Gurugram with hybrid working arrangements fostering enhanced collaboration among the team members and lots of team building and engagement activities that the Team always looks forward to.

Responsibilities / Position overview

We have an exciting opportunity for exuberant aspirants to join the Evidence Evaluation and Synthesis team in Lumanity as a Senior Research Associate (SRA). Evidence Evaluation and Synthesis is a dynamic team of researchers who are riding the wave of evolving needs in the healthcare industry and is looking for seasoned HEOR researchers to help expand our business across India.

Evidence Evaluation and Synthesis team is a critical service line within Lumanity that generates evidence by conducting targeted and systematic literature reviews (SLRs), helping clients meet global and local HTA submission requirements. The team fosters innovative ideas by nurturing an environment of inclusive camaraderie to facilitate medical advances in building a healthier world. Our people\xe2\x80\x99s work directly impacts the lives of patients, which is very fulfilling, but also a huge responsibility, and the key reason why our teams are empowered to continually learn, develop, and remain at the forefront of our profession.

With this broader perspective, the SRA would be supporting on systematic or targeted literature review projects that form the evidence base for the diverse set of deliverables in the business unit we operate in. The SRA would also get opportunities to work and collaborate not only with our globally diverse workforce from diverse scientific backgrounds but also with our clients, thus gaining opportunities to upgrade their technical as well as consulting skillsets.

The SRA will provide support on delegated literature review projects as the key resource who supports the SLR Project Lead in end-to-end SLR activities, including protocol designing, screening, full text search, grey literature searches, data extraction, and quality assessment. The SRA should be able to liaise with other resources, delegating SLR tasks to junior resources or peers, planning their daily schedule of activities, resolving any project-related queries, and QC\xe2\x80\x99ing and compiling SLR tasks completed by junior resources.

The SRA is expected to work within the broad project guidelines as directed by the SLR Project Lead. The SRA should be able to support the SLR Project Lead with project management activities and actively participate in project meetings and maintain good communication with the team members. The SRA is also expected to work collaboratively with other teams in Lumanity, including statisticians, health economics modelers, and HTA submission teams.

Qualifications

• Master\xe2\x80\x99s degree in science preferably in pharmacology, pharmacy or life Science/MBBS/BDS/PhD, with at least 2 years of relevant experience in the SLR domain
• Good analytical and interpretation skills to understand client requirements and suggest bespoke solutions to the research question.
• Ability to work independently with minimal oversight within 3 months of joining.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to manage junior resources and peers.
• Ability to identify and flag project/internal issues to senior colleagues and suggest apt solutions.
• Bonus Preference: Support Managers and Directors with development of technical HEOR proposals as part of business development

Benefits

We offer our employees a generous benefits package that focuses on what matters to you \xe2\x80\x93 health and well-being, personal finances, professional development, and a healthy work/life balance, including:

• Competitive salary (dependent on experience)
• Paid leave: 33.5 annual leave inclusive of 11 public holidays and 9 sick leaves
• Healthcare and wellbeing benefits

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