Director, Sports Epidemiology

Director, Sports Epidemiology

Description

This individual will lead a large well-established team of injury epidemiologists and data scientists, and lead coordination across technical support, machine learning experts and biostatisticians.

Utilizes epidemiologic knowledge and sports injury expertise by connecting domain expertise, data, analytics, and technology across the full spectrum of research and injury surveillance and reduction efforts, including methodological approaches, data assessment, and application of research findings to athlete health and safety programs.

Applies research and data science principles alongside scientific leadership throughout sports injury epidemiology projects using real world data or real world approaches; develops scientific communications such as abstracts and manuscripts; and contributes expertise to program planning, delivery, results interpretation and application to injury reduction and athlete health.

Provides scientific leadership for sports injury analytics programs including program coordination and team leadership, direction and oversight of complex analyses, creation and senior review of presentations and reports, presentations to executive level clients, decisions for resourcing and financial management, overseeing financial management, and managing and mentoring junior and mid-career epidemiologists.

JOB OVERVIEW

Job Profile Summary

Directs and manages an assigned team of epidemiology staff who provide epidemiology leadership to sponsored research programs to ensure quality, time and budget deliverables are met.

Works closely with clients and other functional groups by providing scientific leadership for sports injury analytic programs for professional sport associations or clients. Oversees the design of real-world studies, analyses, evaluation and reporting of studies. Provides senior epidemiology oversight. Manages multiple injury analysis studies of varying complexity and ensures on-time and on-budget delivery for clients. Contributes to new business development and maintaining and strengthening client base. Leads the development of best practices in epidemiology and observational research and other internal initiatives.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions

• Serves as project director or partnership lead on client facing or internal projects.
• Manages staff in accordance with organization’s policies and applicable regulations. Responsibilities include planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance and guiding professional development; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing employee relations issues and resolving problems, and helping the department achieve its quality and finance goals.
• Develops and communicates vision for sports injury programs in collaboration with senior leadership.
• Leads specific research initiatives.
• Authors protocols, reports and presentations with independent, critical thinking to ensure quality and completeness of output, oversees timeline for deliverables associated with analytics and deliverables.
• Reviews and provides relevant epidemiological input to statistical analysis plans and analysis output.
• Provides senior epidemiology oversight and review work of peers and junior staff in areas including observational study methods, statistical methods, and sources and measures for resource utilization and costing.
• Reviews team resourcing and manages team allocation across sports injury programs.
• Oversees financial management of sports injury programs/projects including coordination with internal business development and finance teams and leads negotiations with client on budgeting and financial health. Identifies client-related, budget-related and internal issues that may require attention or escalation.
• Reviews budgets for proposals and monitors budgets for contracted work to assure project completion within scope and budget.
• Works collaboratively and creatively including process improvement to achieve "best practices" and to support effective delivery.
• Helps define and provide appropriate levels of professional development and training for staff.
• Represents IQVIA and clients externally through meetings and conference presentations.
• Oversees and conducts statistical analysis as needed.
• Leads client engagements throughout the study process; follows up with client post-delivery to ensure satisfaction and delivering high-value, high-impact evidence.
• Remains current on sports and healthcare industry, clients, and competitive trends and directions in order to anticipate and identify new business challenges and issues with assigned clients.
• Mentors, coaches, and shares subject matter expertise with others to help develop individuals and capabilities delivering world-class scientific solutions for clients.
• May be an external thought leader to set industry best practices.

MINIMUM REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Experience and Education

• Master’s degree required; Ph.D. preferred. Graduate education in epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, public health with concentration in epidemiology, pharmacy with concentration in epidemiology or relevant scientific field.
• Candidates with a Master’s degree should have 10 or more years of relevant experience. Candidates with a Ph.D. should have 7 or more years of relevant experience.
• Relevant expertise in athlete injury, health, orthopedics, concussion preferred.

Knowledge

Requires broad management knowledge to lead teams, as well as the ability to influence others outside of own job area regarding policies, procedures, and goals.

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