About the Role
Guide clients from an initial ask to a clearly articulated question, then to health economic evidence that answers it credibly, ultimately equipping them to turn that evidence into real-world impact within the health and data sectors.
Responsibilities
- Help clients cut through ambiguity.
- Lead the delivery and project management of high-quality health economic projects.
- Use sound judgement in an ever-changing healthcare landscape without diluting scientific integrity.
- Tackle problems that are often poorly framed at the start and may shift as the work unfolds.
- Lead projects with a high degree of independence, supported by proportionate peer review and senior oversight.
- Help clients move from an initial request to a clearly articulated decision-question.
- Design and deliver health economic modelling and evidence that answers decision-questions with scientific credibility.
- Support internal strategic decisions and inform external stakeholders with evidence.
- Contribute to briefs and proposals.
- Design analytical approaches.
- Lead the delivery of projects and technical workstreams across multiple disease and clinical areas.
- Manage project plans, budgets, resources, risks and client communications.
- Take ownership of model design and build, assumptions, methods, uncertainty, review and quality control.
- Contribute to project conceptualisation, translating client needs and decision problems into proportionate, practical and scientifically credible study designs and modelling approaches.
- Build trust with clients, understand their individual needs and challenge constructively.
- Design and deliver health economic models and evidence-generation work that stand up to scrutiny and peer review.
- Lead the day-to-day management of projects with clarity over scope, timelines, resources, budgets, risks and quality.
- Act as the technical or scientific lead on health economic modelling projects, setting the analytical approach, guiding project teams, delegating effectively and giving clear, detailed and constructive feedback.
- Communicate complex methods, findings and evidence in a way that enables decisions.
- Contribute to making Aquarius an even better place to work.
- Develop evidence-based solutions that influence healthcare decisions.
- Lead individual projects and project teams with considerable independence.
- Deliver healthcare research, analysis and synthesis across disease areas or clinical contexts.
- Lead projects and technical workstreams, including project planning, resource coordination, budget awareness, risk management and review of deliverables.
- Apply health economics across diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, health interventions, healthcare policy or guideline development.
- Lead day-to-day client engagement on assigned projects.
- Identify and interpret clients’ needs, wants and worries.
- Influence, guide and collaborate with stakeholders.
- Manage multiple projects or workstreams.
- Maintain high standards under pressure.
- Review analytical work and deliverables produced by colleagues.
- Contribute to a positive, solutions-focused team environment.
- Mentor and develop junior colleagues.
- Formally line manage Research Assistants, Analysts or Associate Consultants (or be ready to develop this responsibility).
Requirements
- Built strong experience within a consultancy, professional services or commercial environment.
- Ready to take ownership of complex technical work while continuing to grow as a client adviser and people leader.
- Strong health economic modelling capability.
- Sector insight.
- Ability to develop evidence-based solutions that influence healthcare decisions.
- Experience delivering healthcare research, analysis and synthesis across disease areas or clinical contexts.
- Experience delivering this kind of research in true consulting or commercial contexts.
- Experience leading projects and technical workstreams, including project planning, resource coordination, budget awareness, risk management and review of deliverables.
- Appreciation of the value that diverse backgrounds, disciplines and cultures bring to better problem-solving.
- Strong experience of health economic modelling and analysis to support decision making, including the design and build of models.
- Proficiency in Excel is essential.
- Experience delivering for a range of clients, which may include global commercial organisations, SMEs, academic institutions, public-sector bodies, NGOs and charities.
- Experience contributing to proposals, scoping conversations and follow-on opportunities.
- Adaptable and flexible in your thinking.
- Able to respond to the changes and uncertainty that working in a consultancy entails.
- Solid understanding of clinical and epidemiological contexts.
- Strong client relationship skills.
- Ability to escalate significant account, commercial or strategic matters appropriately.
- Clear and thoughtful communication skills.
- Ability to translate complex ideas into accessible, compelling messages.
- Ability to disseminate findings through reports, stakeholder engagement, white papers and peer-reviewed publications.
- A consistent role model of positive behaviours – bringing integrity, maturity and a collaborative approach.
- A growth mindset, with the desire to learn, improve, mentor colleagues, coordinate inclusive project teams and contribute to team capability.
- Excellent command of the English language at CEFR level C2 or equivalent.
Skills
- Health economic modelling
- Data Science
- Statistics
- Epidemiology
- Public Health
- Health Policy
- Mathematics
- Statistical software (Stata, R and/or SAS)
- Excel
- Project planning
- Resource coordination
- Budget awareness
- Risk management
- Client relationship management
- Communication
- Mentoring
- Line management
Location
- Hybrid
- Tileyard Studios, King’s Cross, London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Consultant
- Minimum two days per week on site
Education Level
- PhD/MSc (or BSc/BA with equivalent experience) in a relevant field such as Economics/Health Economics, Data Science/Statistics, Epidemiology, Public Health, Health Policy, Mathematics or a similar discipline
- Equivalent evidenced experience in one of these areas
Salary/Compensations
- £63,000 - £73,000 dependent on experience
Benefits
- PHI (post-probation)
- Annual training budget
- Lively café
- On-site brewery bar
- Regular social events
- Creative community atmosphere
- Brilliant coffee machine
- Every tea in the universe
- Healthy and welcoming company breakfast, every day
About the Company
- Aquarius is a proud Skilled Worker Sponsor.
- Aquarius is proudly independent.
- Independence of spirit allows Aquarius to be a consultancy that tackles complex, often novel questions about what evidence is required to improve health and healthcare systems – and then be entrusted to generate it for clients and collaborators to the right level of rigour.
- Aquarius works with anyone, and clients trust them for their independence and expertise.
- Aquarius proudly features clients’ and team’s published work on their website.
- HTAs don’t do it for Aquarius.
- Aquarius is growing, and they want to create a place where everyone wants to stay and reap the rewards of working within a great team.
- Aquarius believes passionately in the value of properly developed relationships combined with the value of flexibility.
Equal Opportunity
- If you don’t feel you quite match the experience expectations for this role, we’d be interested in hearing from you (you might find a better fit in a Consultant or Associate Consultant role). If you are not sure, please do apply - just let us know your thoughts in the cover letter.
