Key Responsibilities

• Lead the UK health economic analysis plan for the NHS-Galleri trial, working closely with GRAIL’s HEOR team
• Commission and oversee all GRAIL-funded UK health economics work packages, ensuring completion of high quality, timely outputs and manage external consultants.
• Act as the lead contact for NHSE health economists and ensure productive and effective working relationships with our NHS-commissioned partners.
• Apply knowledge and understanding of NHS data sources to ensure appropriate datasets are selected and accessed for analysis
• Use your relevant networks and knowledge of the literature to understand and overcome implementation challenges, creating supportive evidence where appropriate
• Generate novel ideas for research projects in support of NHS implementation of MCED screening and symptomatic applications. 
• Undertake analyses, programming, literature reviews and evidence syntheses
• Contribute to writing manuscripts focused on UK health economics and epidemiology, as well as support of NHS delivery. 
• Contribute to the development of comms materials (e.g. presentations), to communicate the HEOR argument around MCED screening technology. 
• Support cross-organisation initiatives, working at a senior level with internal and external stakeholders including our senior academic partners. 
• Support timely execution of the publication plan, including liaising with external academics and US GRAIL colleagues.
• Contribute to a positive, inquisitive and collaborative UK team culture
• Maintain an awareness of relevant new publications, and pertinent literature.
• Point of contact for UK health economic related queries.

Experience Required

• A PhD or equivalent, and considerable years’ experience working in a related discipline such as epidemiology, statistics, public health, health economics or medicine
• Deep knowledge and understanding of cancer screening and/or early diagnosis and the evidence required to support implementation of early detection methods
• Good understanding of Health Technology Assessment processes (e.g. NICE technology appraisals).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex ideas clearly.
• Experience with commonly used modeling methods for cost-effectiveness analysis such as Markov models and/or discrete event simulation.
• A good knowledge of cancer care provision within the NHS and interest in the developing landscape
• Ability to programme in R
• Commercial experience and/ or close involvement in running clinical cancer trials
• Knowledge of NICE processes and levels of required evidence
• Previous experience of management of external consultancies
• Knowledge of cancer biology
• Understanding of GDPR and experience of data access processes.