Senior Research Associate, Life Sciences

Job Description

Sanius Health is one of the fastest-growing, award-winning platforms for patient-generated data. We integrate real-time patient outcomes, EHR data, wearable health metrics, and socioeconomic insights to drive RWE, patient-centered research, HEOR, clinical trials, recruitment, patient identification, support programs, and transformative analytics. We work across all indications; however our dominance is clear in blood cancers, haematology, rare diseases, and underserved patient populations. Our clinician partnerships are strictly best-in-class, ensuring excellence in delivery for patients, regulators, the NHS, and our industry collaborators. With the largest primary care footprint in the UK and data from over 65 secondary care providers, Sanius Health is the definitive partner for pharma. We don’t just generate evidence, we turn it into better outcomes, smarter decisions, and commercial success. The Life Sciences group at Sanius Health is responsible for patient experience and insight research to support product development. Our work has helped identify and clarify unmet clinical needs, assess burden of illness, evaluate patient outcomes and adherence, while supporting promotional and labelling claims on a global scale. This is a fully remote, home-based position. Position overview The Senior Research Associate will play a key role in the day-to-day management and delivery of patient-centred research, real-world evidence, and consulting projects for pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients. The role combines hands-on scientific contribution with project management responsibility across one or more workstreams. The Senior Research Associate will coordinate project activities, timelines, meetings, and deliverables; contribute to study design, data collection, analysis, and reporting; and act as a regular point of contact for clients and internal project teams. The role is expected to identify delivery risks early, maintain high standards of quality, and support more junior colleagues where appropriate. This position is designed for an experienced researcher ready to take greater ownership of project delivery while continuing to develop scientific, consulting, and client-management skills. Unlike more senior leadership roles, the focus is primarily on successful project execution rather than wider company or business-process responsibilities. Principal Duties and Responsibilities Research Project Delivery & Management Manage the day-to-day delivery of patient-centred research and real-world evidence projects or defined project workstreams from initiation through completion Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, trackers, meeting agendas, action logs, and other core project documentation Coordinate internal resources and project activities to ensure milestones and deliverables are completed on schedule and within agreed scope and budget Identify project risks, dependencies, or resourcing issues and escalate them appropriately, while helping to develop practical solutions Coordinate multidisciplinary contributors including scientific researchers, analysts, clinicians, recruitment partners, and other internal or external stakeholders Conduct quality-control reviews of project materials and deliverables and support adherence to relevant study procedures and quality requirements Scientific Contribution Contribute to study design and development of protocols, research plans, interview or discussion guides, questionnaires, analysis plans, and other study materials Conduct and/or oversee qualitative and quantitative research activities, including literature reviews, interviews, surveys, data review, coding, analysis, and interpretation as appropriate to the project Synthesise research findings and contribute substantially to client reports, presentations, evidence summaries, and other scientific deliverables Support development of manuscripts, conference abstracts, posters, and presentations where appropriate Maintain awareness of developments in patient-centred research, clinical outcome assessment, real-world evidence, HEOR, and relevant research methods Client Engagement Act as a regular day-to-day contact for clients on assigned projects, supporting clear communication on progress, timelines, actions, risks, and deliverables Prepare for and contribute to client meetings, including presenting project updates and research findings within areas of responsibility Build effective working relationships with client stakeholders and respond proactively to project needs Support management of changes in project scope by documenting implications for timelines, resources, and deliverables and escalating where required Team & Proposal Support Provide day-to-day guidance, review, and support to Research Associates and other junior team members on assigned project activities Support proposal development by contributing to research approaches, methods, workplans, timelines, and written proposal content Contribute to knowledge sharing, templates, and practical improvements that strengthen project delivery within the Life Sciences team Education, Professional Skills, & Experience Master’s degree with approximately 4–6+ years of relevant experience, or PhD with approximately 2–4+ years of relevant experience, in health economics, epidemiology, public health, psychology, outcomes research, health services research, or a related discipline Experience delivering research or consulting projects for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or related clients, ideally within patient-centred research, real-world evidence, HEOR, or outcomes research Demonstrated experience coordinating project timelines, deliverables, meetings, and multiple workstreams, with the ability to take ownership of day-to-day project delivery Experience with qualitative and/or quantitative research methods; experience in areas such as patient interviews, surveys, patient preference research, clinical outcome assessments, utility research, or observational research is desirable Strong scientific writing, critical-thinking, organisational, and verbal communication skills Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams Experience reviewing or guiding the work of junior colleagues is desirable Experience with statistical, qualitative, or analytical software (e.g., R, SAS, Stata, SPSS, NVivo, or similar) is desirable Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)