Director, Expert Insights – Delphi Methodology

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in North Carolina.

📋 Description

• Independently design and manage both modified and traditional Delphi studies, as well as other expert elicitation consensus exercises, overseeing the entire process from protocol development to recruitment, questionnaire creation, iterative rounds, analysis, consensus interpretation, and final reporting.

• Establish and implement consensus criteria, stopping rules, analytical methods, and strategies for integrating quantitative results with qualitative insights.

• Create and facilitate virtual and in-person advisory boards, steering committees, expert panels, and structured expert engagement activities.

• Lead and moderate discussions with clinicians, payers, patients, caregivers, stakeholders in health technology assessment, and other experts.

• Conduct and analyze qualitative interviews utilizing rigorous, purpose-fit methodologies.

• Provide guidance to clients and internal teams on methodologies for generating insights and developing consensus.

• Draft study protocols, analysis plans, interview and discussion guides, questionnaires, moderator materials, and other tools for data collection.

• Convert stakeholder feedback and study outcomes into conclusions, implications, recommendations, and strategic narratives.

• Prepare and review reports, executive summaries, manuscripts, abstracts, posters, congress materials, and client presentations.

• Identify the implications of expert insights for medical strategy, evidence communication, publication planning, stakeholder engagement, and market access.

• Adhere to standards for scientific integrity, publication ethics, authorship, transparency, data integrity, and project documentation.

• Oversee multidisciplinary projects, ensuring they meet defined scope, quality, timelines, and budgets, including work plans, cost estimates, and risk mitigation strategies.

• Act as a senior client contact, providing methodological and strategic advice.

• Identify opportunities and develop proposals.

• Support business development through capabilities presentations, solution formulation, thought leadership, and expanding client relationships.

• Collaborate with medical writers, scientific strategists, editors, project managers, analysts, and other cross-functional team members.

• Enhance the team’s scientific reputation through the publication and presentation of work.

⛳️ Requirements

• Advanced degree.

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in medical communications, clinical research, epidemiology, public health, outcomes research, health services research, health policy, qualitative research, pharmaceutical sciences, or a similar scientific field.

• Extensive, recent, hands-on experience in independently designing and executing modified or classic Delphi studies, including protocol development, expert selection and recruitment, round creation, analysis, consensus interpretation, and reporting in compliance with current methodological standards.

• Capability to take the lead on active Delphi projects with minimal methodological supervision or onboarding.

• Experience in leading virtual and in-person advisory boards, steering committees, expert panels, or similar structured expert engagement programs.

• Proficiency in designing, conducting, and analyzing qualitative research.

• Strong scientific writing, synthesis, and data interpretation capabilities.

• Experience in developing publication-quality reports, manuscripts, abstracts, posters, or presentations.

• Familiarity with applicable ethical and reporting standards.

• Experience collaborating directly with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or healthcare clients, providing senior-level methodological and strategic guidance.

• Proven success in managing complex projects, budgets, timelines, risks, and cross-functional teams.

• Experience in identifying opportunities, writing proposals, and presenting capabilities or recommended strategies to clients.

• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and interpersonal communication skills.

• Ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced, multitasking environment.

• Capability to work independently, collaborate across disciplines, and mentor or coach colleagues.

• Record of peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, or other significant scientific thought leadership.

• Experience engaging with clinicians, payers, patients, caregivers, and health technology assessment representatives (preferred).

• Knowledge of US or international healthcare, health technology assessment, pricing, reimbursement, or market access environments (preferred).

• Experience linking expert insights to Medical Affairs strategy, integrated evidence communication, publication planning, or stakeholder engagement planning (preferred).

• Familiarity with virtual engagement platforms, digital collaboration tools, and emerging technologies (preferred).

• Experience supporting health technology assessment, reimbursement, regulatory, or evidence-submission activities (preferred).

• Experience with additional research methodologies such as literature reviews, observational or retrospective analyses, patient-reported outcomes, utility assessment, or quality-of-life research (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary.

• Generous paid time off policy.

• Merit-based annual increases.

• Bonus opportunities.

• Robust recognition program.

• Health insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Life insurance.

• Short-term disability insurance.

• Long-term disability insurance.

• Retirement savings program, such as a 401(k) plan.

• Paid parental leave for all parents.

• Financial assistance with adoption expenses or infertility treatments.

• Financial reimbursement for education and professional development opportunities.

• Employee assistance program.

• Additional offerings to promote a healthy work-life balance.