Director, Expert Insights and Delphi Methodology

RTI Health Solutions (RTI-HS), a wholly owned subsidiary of RTI International, is an independent and internationally recognized research organization. With offices in the US, UK, Spain, France, and Sweden, we provide healthcare consulting and research expertise to optimize decision making for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device products across the development and marketing lifecycle. Clients rely on our expertise, quality standards, and integrity to guide their product development and regulatory and market access strategies.

Our various practice areas include Value, Access, and HEOR;
Patient-Centered and Outcomes Research;
Epidemiology and Biostatistics;
Medical Communications;
Global Business Operations; and Strategic Consulting and Growth.

We are seeking a Director to join our Expert Insights team within Medical Communications. As Director, Expert Insights and Delphi Methodology, you will join an experienced, collaborative team that helps clients obtain, interpret, and communicate insights from clinicians, payers, HTA experts, patients, and other stakeholders. You will provide senior methodological and project leadership across Delphi and other consensus-development studies, advisory boards, steering committees, expert panels, and qualitative research.

You will translate complex stakeholder input into clear findings, implications, recommendations, and scientifically rigorous deliverables that support medical affairs, clinical development, evidence communication, market access, and related business decisions. This role is suited to an experienced leader who can quickly take ownership of active Delphi work and provide expert leadership across ongoing projects.

This role’s location is flexible, and remote working options are available, with a preference for candidates located on the East Coast.

In this role, you will:

• Independently design and lead modified and classic Delphi studies and other expert elicitation of consensus exercises from protocol development through expert recruitment, questionnaire development, iterative rounds, analysis, consensus interpretation, and final reporting
• Define and apply appropriate consensus criteria, stopping rules, analytical approaches, and methods for integrating quantitative results with qualitative rationale
• Design and lead virtual and in-person advisory boards, steering committees, expert panels, and other structured expert-engagement activities
• Facilitate or moderate discussions with clinicians, payers, patients, caregivers, health technology assessment stakeholders, and other experts
• Conduct and analyze qualitative interviews using rigorous, fit-for-purpose methods
• Advise clients and internal teams on the most appropriate methodology for insight-generation and consensus-development that is tailored to intended audiences
• Develop study protocols, analysis plans, interview and discussion guides, questionnaires, moderator materials, and other data-collection tools
• Translate stakeholder input and study findings into clear conclusions, implications, recommendations, and strategic narratives
• Develop and review scientifically accurate, audience-appropriate reports, executive summaries, manuscripts, abstracts, posters, congress materials, and client presentations
• Identify implications of expert insights for medical strategy, evidence communication, publication planning, stakeholder engagement, and market access
• Apply appropriate standards for scientific rigor, publication ethics, authorship, transparency, data integrity, and project documentation
• Manage complex, multidisciplinary projects to agreed scope, quality, timelines, and budgets, including development of workplans, cost estimates, and risk-mitigation…