Who we are and what we do

We are a dynamic, friendly and rapidly expanding independent market access and HEOR consultancy with offices in Oxfordshire, London, Manchester, York, Newcastle, and Cambridge. 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 and for being agile and innovative.

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.

The Role

We are seeking an enthusiastic, self-motivated Senior Consultant (Systematic Review) to join our friendly Evidence team at Mtech Access. This is an excellent opportunity to make a difference in a dynamic and rapidly growing company. The ideal candidate would have a high work ethic, be team-oriented and hands-on in a varied role. This is a permanent position, with flexibility in office location.

Working alongside Dr Shona Lang, this role will involve a wide variety of duties as follows:

• Acting as the designated lead systematic reviewer on projects, working autonomously to deliver robust and reproducible content of a consistently high standard, across a varied range of therapeutic areas and a breadth of deliverables, including but not limited to:
  • Stand-alone systematic reviews
  • Health technology assessment submissions
  • Global value dossiers/global reimbursement dossiers
  • Manuscripts
  • Abstracts/Posters
  • Interpretation/presentation of statistical analyses
• 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 take personal responsibility for the quality of your work
• Effectively managing the input of support/junior project team contributors
• Advising on the strategic direction/shaping of medical writing deliverables to ensure these are ‘fit for purpose’ and meet client objectives
• As a member of a project team, leading on appropriate aspects of the project, including the intellectual design, timeline development and the 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
• Formal project management of appropriate medical writing projects/deliverables
• For medical writing projects/deliverables, leading discussions with colleagues and clients, showing the authority and confidence in your speciality knowledge and wider understanding of the market access environment and healthcare systems of relevance to medical writing deliverables, to advise & support
• Fostering and maintaining existing client relationships
• Managing client accounts and ongoing relationships to maximise business opportunities
• Contributing to or leading business development activities for appropriate medical writing deliverables, such as:
  • Researching and writing proposals
  • Introductory calls with clients, e.g. responding to a website query requesting a Global Value Dossier with an initial follow-up call to understand the brief
  • 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

Requirements

Essential

• A life sciences degree
• Extensive experience gained within a consultancy or Pharmaceutical/medical device company
• Experience through volume of individual deliverables & projects delivered, to support capability to deliver, support and advise, in developing market access materials, including HTA submissions, value propositions and value dossiers
• Experience in leading and project managing the successful delivery of multiple projects
• Strong planning, organising and time management skills
• Experience of business development activities, competent in writing proposals and costing projects & experience of pitching to clients
• Experience of line management
• Experience of mentoring/supervision of analysts
• Experience of or a knowledge of medical statistics/meta-analysis
• Highly skilled in use of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and EndNote (or other bibliographic software) and competent in use of Excel

Desirable

• A PhD level Qualification
• 6 Years’ experience within Systematic Review

Benefits

• 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
• An additional 3 days 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
• Wellbeing, recognition and employee savings scheme
• Optional private healthcare insurance via salary sacrifice
• Subsidised eyecare
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Enhanced parental leave policies