Associate Director Epidemiologist (all genders) - full time/part-time possi

at  Merck Group

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United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.

An exciting opportunity awaits you within the Patient Focused Real World Evidence (PRWE) Team for Oncology. As passionate leaders of patient focused real world data, evidence generation, and epidemiology, we are uniquely placed to enable fit-for-purpose visionary solutions. Our team operates with a proactive and agile approach, as a trusted partner in qualitative and quantitative sciences, all while striving towards the common goal to deliver more medicines to more patients faster.
As a key member of our team, you will act as the functional product lead and subject matter expert (SME) for assigned oncology product(s) and drive the Real-World Evidence and Data (RWE/D) strategy, with a focus on integrated evidence planning.
You will lead the design, implementation and oversight of disease or drug-specific RWE studies, encompassing regulatory grade studies, i.e. safety related studies, external control arm studies and natural history of disease studies. You will act as a lead for crossfunctional analysis requests and actively provide SME expertise to product teams as a key contributing member. Your work will involve inspiring cross-functional collaboration, in partnership with other quantitative scientists while also maintaining and expanding our external collaborations.