Sr Director HEOR Modeling

Senior Director, Health Economics (HEOR)

Location: Vancouver, BC (Preference for candidates in Vancouver, Toronto, or Ottawa)
Position: Permanent, Full-Time

About Broadstreet HEOR:

We are an independent consultancy specializing in patient-centered research, epidemiology, evidence synthesis, and health economics. Our team includes qualitative researchers, epidemiologists, health economists, statisticians, and IT specialists. Projects are led by senior team members with extensive experience across a wide range of HEOR studies. We also collaborate with an extensive network of external academic and clinical experts on studies aligned with their areas of expertise.

Role Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Director with a demonstrated track record of scientific and strategic leadership in health economics (HE). The successful candidate will provide senior and strategic leadership across a portfolio of HE projects; ideally with a global scope, and ensuring the production of high-quality, “client-ready” deliverables.

The Senior Director will also play an important role in developing client relationships; supporting business development; developing, mentoring and line managing junior and senior team members; and contributing to the growth and scientific direction of health economics projects.

Responsibilities will include:

• Providing senior scientific and strategic oversight of health economics and modelling.
• Designing and implementing health economic models, including cost-effectiveness and budget impact models
• Providing guidance to other project leads and managers in establishing project priorities, coordinating project-related activities and developing solutions.
• Providing senior level review and quality oversight of project-related deliverables (e.g., protocols, technical reports, slide decks), and ensuring these meet high-quality standards.
• Serving as a senior point of contact with clients, leading strategic discussions, and building strong client relationships
• Providing leadership, mentorship, and scientific guidance to Directors, Associate Directors, and other members of health economics team.
• Serving as a line manager for senior and/or junior team members, supporting professional development, performance management, and career progression.

• Contributing to resource planning and the effective allocation of scientific expertise across projects.

Technical responsibilities will include:

• Providing senior scientific leadership and in some cases leading the design and development of health economic models, including required statistical analyses (i.e., either by conducting analyses or working with biostatisticians to perform the appropriate analysis and statistical diagnostics to ensure best practices) and working with team members in targeted and systematic literature reviews and evidence generation activities to support model parameterization.
• Capability to conduct statistical analyses is desired but not a requirement
• Advising on the selection and application of evidence synthesis methods, including NMA and MAIC, to understand the specific needs for models
• Ensuring that study designs and methodologic approaches are scientifically rigorous, fit for purpose, and aligned with the intended evidence generation objectives.
• Supporting and leading proposal development, scoping, and other business development activities, including contributing to the development of new client relationships and research opportunities.
• Leading or providing senior review of scientific publications, conference abstracts and presentations, technical reports, and other scientific communications.

Required skills:

• Demonstrated ability to provide scientific and strategic leadership across complex research projects and programs.

• Strong people leadership, and management skills, including the ability to mentor and develop junior and senior team members.
• Excellent client management and relationship building skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with scientific and commercial stakeholders.
• Strong commercial awareness and experience contributing to business development, project scoping, and proposals.
• Ability to work independently While also fostering and providing effective leadership within teams.
• Strong judgment, organizational, prioritization, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to provide direction and lead across multiple concurrent projects
• Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint is required; familiarity with a statistical or data visualization package would be an advantage.

Education & Experience:

• MSc or PhD in Epidemiology, Health Economics, Statistics, Biostatistics, or Public Health, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of health research experience in consultancy (ideal) or an academic environment.
• Proven experience leading economic models and other HE activities, preferably within a consulting environment.
• Demonstrated managerial, leadership, and project management experience.