Research Manager

Patient Preferences and/or Utilities Focus

Acaster Lloyd exists to help people live better lives through patient-centred outcomes research trusted by the best pharma, biotechs and academia. This way, new, life-saving treatments get launched - always powered by patient insights.

Since being founded in 2016, we have grown to more than 40 people across the UK. In 2026, we became employee owned, which means the company is now owned for the benefit of all employees. It safeguards our independence, reinforces our values and ensures that everyone who contributes to our success has a meaningful stake in it.

We undertake consultancy and research for biotech and pharmaceutical companies globally in the field of patient-centred outcomes research. We work with our clients to understand the burden of disease and the value of medicines and other health technologies from the patients’ perspective.

Our business continues to grow organically due to the high-quality work that our team deliver. Our client base continues to expand, and we take pride in the level of repeat business we receive, demonstrating our significant contribution to science, expertise in patient-centred outcomes research, and our collaborative and supportive approach.

Central to this success is our high performing team. Our people are extremely important to us, and we believe that shows in everything we do. It’s our people that make a difference. We believe the best work happens when people from all walks of life come together.

We are looking for an individual(s) with experience in health preference research (e.g., discrete choice experiments, best-worst scaling) and/or utility research (e.g., using time trade-off, standard gamble, preference-based measures) to join our team as a Research Manager, interested in applying their research expertise to support our clients in evidencing the patient voice.

We encourage you to apply even if you only have experience in health preference research or utility research, as we value potential and transferrable skills.

Research Manager is a mid-level position, involving both research and project management. Applicants typically having several years’ relevant experience in a client-facing role. At the Research Manager level, the tasks below are all conducted under the guidance of the project director.

• Leading on the study design, analysis and interpretation across quantitative and mixed methods research (if relevant, please note indicate specialism on application).
• Planning, conducting and/or overseeing literature reviews (including developing search strategies, reviewing abstracts, critical appraisal, and data extraction) using tools such as Ovid, Pub Med and other search engines.
• Leading on the development of study materials, including study protocols, recruitment materials, interview guides, background questionnaires, and informed consent forms.
• Report writing, presentations, and dissemination work
• Preparing and submitting ethics applications
• Client communication and presentations
• Project management
• Engaging with the scientific community, including conference posters/presentations and publications.

• Bachelor’s degree (or local equivalent) in a relevant field (e.g. economics, psychology or other social science).
• Post-graduate qualification (e.g. MSc, PhD) in a relevant field (e.g. health economics, health psychology, or other relevant social science).
• At least three years of experience of designing and conducting stated preference and/or utility research working on research projects, ideally in a health-related field.
• Experience with generating experimental designs using NGene.
• Experience with choice modelling (multinomial logit, mixed logit, latent class analysis) using R or another statistical…