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Global Scientific Lead - Clinical Outcome Assessment (COA) Strategy ConsultingIQVIA • London, United Kingdom
Global Scientific Lead - Clinical Outcome Assessment (COA) Strategy Consulting

Global Scientific Lead - Clinical Outcome Assessment (COA) Strategy Consulting

IQVIA • London, United Kingdom
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
  • Remote
Job description
IQVIA

Patient Centered Solutions (PCS) Team
The PCS team leads the industry in the science of measuring the patient experience. We pair strategic consulting expertise with technical scientific knowledge to design and execute scientifically rigorous research that incorporates the patient voice into the development and commercialization of new medicines. This research includes qualitative (e.g., patient interviews, focus groups), quantitative (e.g., clinical outcome assessments (COAs)/patient-reported outcomes (PROs), preference research) and passive (e.g., digital health technology tools) approaches to understand patient, caregiver and physician experiences and expectations of disease and treatment.

Why join?
  • Become part of a recognized global leader in patient-focused research
  • Keep growing with an organization that encourages and invests in continuous professional and personal development
  • Apply your business and leadership skills in an entrepreneurial and multi-disciplinary team
  • Continue challenging yourself by addressing the toughest client issues, working across multiple geographies and solutions in a dynamic and crucial field for the industry
  • Make a difference to patients by enabling the successful approval or launch of new treatments with features that are truly patient-centric

Responsibilities
The Global Scientific Lead for Clinical Outcome Assessment (COA) Endpoint Strategy serves as the senior scientific authority in the COA Consulting team within Patient Centered Solutions. This role brings deep expertise in COA measurement science and Patient Experience Data (PED) more broadly, to differentiate client solutions through expert-driven, highly insightful endpoint and PED strategies. The role acts as a trusted advisor to pharmaceutical and biotechnology sponsors and represents IQVIA as an external scientific thought leader while ensuring internal scientific quality and best practices. The role provides organisational leadership for COA science through a combination of direct people management and influence by setting the standards and strategy for the scientific work of the consulting team. Key responsibilities include:

People and organizational leadership
  • Serve as the global scientific lead for consulting activities, providing strategic oversight and leadership across the PCS consulting organisation
  • Lead and develop talent through a combination of direct line management, broader mentoring, and active cultivation of scientific capabilities across the consulting team
  • Champion excellence in scientific outputs, driving consistency, quality, and innovation in clinical outcome assessment (COA) and PED–related deliverables
  • Set and shape the long-term vision and strategy for scientific activities within consulting, working in close partnership with senior leadership

Client Strategy Leadership & Scientific Differentiation
  • Develop COA endpoint and PED strategies across clinical development programs, including primary and key secondary endpoint positioning in consulting projects.
  • Bring senior COA and PED expertise into client meetings, workshops, and strategic discussions.
  • Differentiate proposals and client solutions through expert-driven COA and PED strategy narratives.
  • Translate emerging scientific and regulatory expectations into actionable client recommendations.

Regulatory-Grade Endpoint Strategy & FDA Engagement
  • Advise sponsors on development and justification of COA endpoint strategies for regulatory interactions.
  • Support preparation for and participation in FDA meetings as the COA subject matter expert.
  • Guide sponsors on evidence expectations, context of use, and fit-for-purpose COA strategies.

COA Instrument Development Leadership
  • Provide senior scientific leadership in the development of new COA instruments from concept to validation-ready tools.
  • Lead and advise on drafting and refinement of COA instrument items, response options, recall periods, and scoring approaches.
  • Oversee qualitative research activities supporting content validity, including concept elicitation and cognitive interviewing.
  • Ensure new COA instruments are patient-centered, scientifically robust, and fit-for-purpose for clinical and regulatory use.

Internal SME Oversight & Quality Assurance
  • Serve as subject matter expert overseeing internal project teams executing COA and PED strategy and development work.
  • Review and approve key scientific deliverables to ensure quality, rigor, and alignment with best practices.
  • Mentor and coach COA and PED scientists and consultants, supporting capability development across the organization.

Business Development & Practice Growth
  • Support business development through proposal leadership, solution design, and client presentations.
  • Contribute to the evolution of COA strategy and PED methodologies, frameworks, and reusable assets.

External Scientific Leadership & Visibility
  • Maintain a strong external profile through publications, conference presentations, and scientific collaborations.
  • Represent IQVIA as a recognized expert in COA science and endpoint strategy.
  • Contribute to academic teaching, advisory boards, or industry working groups where appropriate.

Essential experience, skills and education required
  • Deep expertise across COA types (PRO, ObsRO, ClinRO, PerfO) and their application in clinical research.
  • Extensive experience developing COA endpoint strategies across multiple therapeutic areas.
  • Hands-on experience developing new COA instruments, including item writing and qualitative validation.
  • Strong experience supporting FDA-facing endpoint strategy and regulatory interactions.
  • Broad experience across PED methodologies and application of PED by regulators, payers and other stakeholders desirable
  • Proven ability to lead, mentor, and oversee multidisciplinary scientific teams.
  • Excellent scientific writing, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
  • Advanced degree (PhD, MD, PharmD, DrPH, MSc) in a relevant scientific discipline strongly preferred.
  • Strong publication record and recognized credibility in outcomes research or COA measurement science.
  • Well-developed written and verbal communication skills including presentations, chairing meetings, external conference presentations, workshop facilitation, business and report writing.
  • An entrepreneurial nature and interest in developing new client offerings and solutions and in building the capability to deliver the same.

Please submit your CV in English.
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