Senior Health Economist

Role Summary

• Responsibilities:
  You will be responsible for developing economic models to inform decisions on the efficient allocation of resources available to healthcare providers, and communicating these insights to a variety of stakeholders
• Salary: A starting salary of $100,000 to $125,000 per annum, depending on previous experience (we have established salary bands based on educational attainment to ensure a fair and consistent approach for all applicants, eliminating the need for individual negotiations)
• Benefits:
  Discretionary profit share bonuses paid twice per year, hybrid and flexible working options, generous vacation allowance, private medical and dental insurance, 401K plan with up to a 5% employer contribution, life insurance, full funding and study leave for external training
• Role Type:
  Full-time, permanent role
• Start Date:
  
  We are currently recruiting for start dates throughout 2026 and you will be asked to state your availability on your application form
• Final date to receive applicationss:
  Whilst there are no set Final date to receive applicationss, we strongly recommend applying as early as possible. The role, or particular start dates, may close when a suitable candidate is found
• Location:
  
  This role is available in our Boston, MA and New York, NY offices

Do you have experience of successfully conceptualizing, developing and communicating health economic models that demonstrate the value of new healthcare interventions? Do you enjoy building and maintaining client relationships? Are you looking to join a growing company offering excellent career prospects?

As a Senior Health Economist at Costello Medical, you will play a key role within project teams to ensure work is delivered to an exceptionally high quality and in line with client expectations. This includes providing strategic advice to clients from model conceptualization through to building of the model and interpretation of the results. Senior Health Economists are central to the quality control of the project as well as training Health Economists through the provision of constructive feedback.

In addition to this and helping define our project approach, the ideal candidate will also be expected to deliver technical work themselves and progress their own technical modelling skills.

Our Health Economics team deliver modelling projects to a broad range of pharmaceutical, medical devices companies and public sector and non-profit clients. You will work across different accounts spanning multiple disease areas and therefore should be able to familiarize yourself with new areas quickly.

You will also play a key role in contributing to business development by developing and maintaining excellent client relationships and identifying opportunities to provide additional services to clients within projects. There may also be opportunities to line manage and mentor our Health Economist Interns.

Senior Health Economists are supported to progress to the Consultant Health Economist role, and this can typically be achieved in 1 to 2 years. As a Consultant Health Economist, you would manage a range of projects and have full responsibility for client communication on your projects, as well as leading budgeting plans and business development efforts. In addition to technical project delivery, you would line manage team members and have internal responsibilities spanning areas such as recruitment and training.

Responsibilities

• Working on health economic projects, directly with clients, from project initiation to completion
• Leading a project team, including delegating tasks and managing the time of others coupled with the ability to manage timelines across multiple projects at once and the flexibility to respond to changing deadlines
• A proven ability to build robust and sustainable client relationships, which involves communicating directly with clients and responding to different communication styles

Qualifications

• A degree level or higher qualification in a relevant discipline (minimum 3.3 GPA). Relevant disciplines are those that demonstrate a high level of technical and mathematical ability, such as mathematics, economics, physics or computer science. Formal degree-level or higher training in statistics or health economic modelling is desirable, though not required
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to explain complex modelling techniques and results to non-experts
• Advanced skills in Excel and VBA
• The ability to use your initiative and work independently, in addition to working collaboratively within project teams
• A high degree of accuracy and attention to detail
• Flexibility to respond to changing deadlines

Desirable qualifications

• Prior experience of having mentored others in any setting
• Experience with other software such as R, C++, STATA alongside a willingness to learn new technical and programming skills

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