About the Role
Lead clients in navigating ambiguity, inspiring teams to achieve high-quality results, and apply sound judgment in a dynamic healthcare landscape while maintaining scientific integrity. Help clients define their needs, design evidence programs, and communicate findings to inform strategic decisions or external stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Shape briefs into proposals.
- Design analytical approaches.
- Run project delivery, including technical and management aspects, across multiple disease and clinical areas.
- Defend the appropriate level of rigor, including assumptions, methods, uncertainty, and quality control.
- Manage stakeholder alignment, change management, and project momentum.
- Build trust with senior clients and challenge constructively.
- Design and run evidence generation projects that withstand scrutiny and peer review.
- Lead delivery with clarity on scope, pace, and quality.
- Inspire leadership skills in others and guide technical development through direction, delegation, and feedback.
- Communicate complex work and evidence to enable decisions.
- Contribute to making Aquarius an even better place to work.
Requirements
- Experience within a consultancy or professional services environment.
- Confidence in managing projects, people, and clients.
- Demonstrated leadership qualities for navigating complex, technical projects across diverse healthcare evidence challenges.
- Strong analytical capability.
- Sector insight.
- Ability to shape evidence-based solutions that influence healthcare decisions.
- Experience delivering healthcare research, analysis, and synthesis across disease areas or clinical contexts.
- Strong technical delivery skills.
- Project leadership experience reflecting the value of diverse backgrounds and cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural training.
- Ability to creatively draw on diverse methodologies (qualitative and quantitative) to design optimal approaches for clients, especially for novel problems.
- Ability to design analytical approaches that generate evidence for healthcare decision-making and communicate it clearly.
- Willingness to deliver for large global commercial clients, SMEs, academic research teams, and charities.
- Adaptable and flexible thinking, responding effectively to change and uncertainty.
- Ability and enthusiasm to tackle health-related problems across diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, health interventions, healthcare policy, or guideline development.
- Strong client relationship skills, with the ability to identify and interpret client needs, wants, and worries.
- Ability to influence, guide, and collaborate with senior stakeholders.
- Clear and thoughtful communication skills, translating complex ideas into accessible messages.
- Consistent role-model of positive behaviors, integrity, maturity, and collaboration.
- A growth mindset with a desire to learn, improve, and help others develop.
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams and maintain high standards under pressure.
- Experience line managing and supporting junior colleagues.
- Track record in building capability across teams.
- Excellent command of the English language at CEFR level C2 or equivalent.
Skills
- Analytical capability
- Sector insight
- Evidence-based solution shaping
- Healthcare research, analysis, and synthesis
- Technical delivery
- Project leadership
- Diverse methodologies (qualitative and quantitative)
- Analytical approach design
- Client relationship management
- Stakeholder influence and collaboration
- Communication (complex ideas to accessible messages)
- Line management
- Team capability building
- English language proficiency (CEFR C2)
Location
- London, UK
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Work from anywhere (up to 6 weeks/year)
Experience Level
- Consultancy or professional services experience
- Project leadership experience
- Line management experience
Education Level
- PhD/MSc in Economics/Health Economics, Data Science/Statistics, Epidemiology, Public Health, Health Policy, Mathematics or similar discipline
- BSc/BA with equivalent experience
- Equivalent evidenced experience in a relevant field
Benefits
- Company breakfast
- Annual training budget
About the Company
- Aquarius Population Health influences healthcare intervention decisions or policy at local, national, and/or global levels.
- The company fosters an intimate and personal connectedness within a small team.
- Colleagues are described as super clever, with diverse international, multidisciplinary expertise spanning epidemiology, HEOR, modelling, qualitative research, writing, and more.
- Partnerships are varied, including commercial biopharma, diagnostics, healthtech, public sector, NGOs, and academia.
- The company maintains strong scientific credibility, contributing to peer-reviewed publications and evidence that stands up to rigorous validation.
- The working environment at Tileyard Studios includes a lively café, an on-site brewery bar, regular social events, and a creative community atmosphere.
- The company is growing, focusing on personal development and creating a place where employees want to stay and reap rewards.
- Aquarius Population Health believes in the value of developed relationships and flexibility, operating a hybrid working model.
Equal Opportunity
- We will consider applications from UK and non-UK based candidates for sponsorship to work from the UK on permanent or long-term contracts (e.g. 12+ months).
