We are a dynamic, friendly and rapidly expanding market access and HEOR consultancy with offices in Oxfordshire, London, Manchester and York, along with hubs in Newcastle and Cambridge (our hubs comprise local team members who meet for social events and ad hoc face-to-face working, but do not have permanent physical offices). We provide strategy and solutions to help Pharma and Medtech companies bring interventions to market, providing more patient choice and meeting the needs of the healthcare environment.
We strive to be the consultancy of choice for people pursuing careers in market access and HEOR by maintaining a high-performing, happy, motivated community. We are proud of our collaborative, nurturing environment, and are known for our exemplary work, agility, and innovation.
Our core services are Health Economics, Systematic Literature Review and Network Meta-analysis, Global Market Access and Pricing, UK NHS insights, HTA support, and Customer Communication.
Mtech Access are now part of Petauri™. This marks a significant and exciting milestone in our journey, and aligns with our commitment to partnering with industry to bring life-enhancing technologies to market.
For more details about the role and the skills/experience we are looking for please keep reading, but at Mtech Access we believe talented individuals can come from a range of backgrounds, so even if you don’t tick every box, or have not previously worked in a similar consultancy we still want to hear from you if you believe you have got what it takes to make a difference.
Please note: to be considered for any role you must have the right to live and work in UK without sponsorship.
The role:
We are currently looking for experienced Systematic Review Consultants to join our growing Systematic Review Team. We are flexible and seek to tailor our roles to your aspirations, strengths, and interests.
As an experienced Systematic Review Consultant, you will be required to undertake dual roles, as appropriate, providing project leadership to support client and project management, and offering literature review expertise to support the successful delivery of client projects and internal workstreams. In this role, it is generally expected that you will work without the need for support from senior colleagues.
You will be required to work closely with colleagues within multi-disciplinary project teams and externally with clients, external associates (e.g. key opinion leaders, publication authors), and third-party agencies to achieve project objectives. Your ability to perform this role will be based on demonstrable experience through the volume and breadth of individual deliverables and projects successfully delivered, and positive feedback received.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Acting as the Lead Systematic Reviewer on projects, working autonomously, and delivering robust and reproducible systematic reviews consistently to a high standard across a varied range of therapeutic areas and a breadth of deliverables, including but not limited to:
- Standalone systematic reviews
- Health technology assessment submissions
- Global value dossiers/global reimbursement dossiers
- Manuscripts
- Abstracts
- Posters
- Leading and contributing to all stages of the systematic review process, including developing searches, proposal and protocol development, screening for relevant studies, data extraction, and report writing
- Adhering to internal and client quality control measures, and taking personal responsibility for the quality of your work and that of more junior colleagues.
- Effectively managing the input of support/junior project team contributors
- Advising on the strategic direction/shaping of deliverables to ensure that these are ‘fit for purpose’ and meet client objectives
- Leading on appropriate aspects of the project, including the intellectual design, timeline development, and ongoing organisation and execution of projects, including timely communication with colleagues and clients, leading specific aspects of client meetings or the entire meeting, note-taking, and execution of relevant actions
- Leading discussions with colleagues and clients, demonstrating authority and confidence in your speciality knowledge, and a wider understanding of the market access environment and health care systems of relevance to deliverables, to advise and support
- Fostering and maintaining existing client relationships
- Managing client accounts and ongoing relationships to maximise business opportunities
- Contributing to or leading business development activities, such as:
- Researching and writing proposals
- Organising introductory calls with clients, e.g. responding to a website query
- Presenting at credentials opportunities or pitches
- Contributing to, or leading on aspects of, technical and consulting mentorship, including dissemination of skills and knowledge, on and off project, and formal training
- Actively contributing to functional team responsibilities, which may include the development of best practice and standards, development of training resources and facilitation of training sessions, and recruitment into the team
- Line management is expected if opportunities exist
Requirements
Essential
- A life sciences degree
- Experience, through volume of individual deliverables and projects delivered, to support capability to deliver, support, and advise on developing market access materials, including HTA submissions, value propositions, and value dossiers
- Experience in leading and project managing the successful delivery of multiple projects
- Experience of business development activities, including writing proposals
- Experience of mentoring/supervision of other writers
- Highly autonomous with evidence of critical thinking, sound judgement and excellent communication skills
- Excellent Word®, PowerPoint®, and EndNote® (or other bibliographic software) skills and competent use of Excel®
- Competent at basic research and medical writing
- Experience of or a knowledge of medical statistics/meta-analysis
- Fluent written and spoken English skills
Desirable
- A relevant PhD
- Experience of line management
What we offer
- A competitive salary and annual bonus scheme
- The opportunity to develop your own skills in a supportive and friendly environment
- A hybrid mix of home and office working
- 25 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), increasing with length of service
- Up to 3 days of additional paid leave during our Christmas closure
- Your birthday off
- An employee volunteering day each year
- 5% employer pension contribution
- Life Assurance at 4x gross salary
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Well-being, recognition, and employee savings scheme
- Optional private healthcare insurance via salary sacrifice
- Subsidised eyecare
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Enhanced parental leave policies
