Senior COA Scientist, Scoring & Interpretation (M / W / D)

Location: Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

Company

hirify.global provides clinical research services, commercial insights, and healthcare intelligence for the life sciences and healthcare industries.

What you will do

• Lead the scientific evaluation and implementation of Clinical Outcome Assessment scoring methodologies.
• Interpret scoring manuals, publications, instrument documentation, and author guidance to define implementation-ready requirements.
• Document score structures, derivations, recoding, transformations, weighting, conditional logic, missing-data rules, and completion thresholds.
• Assess score interpretation guidance, including severity bands, benchmarks, score meaning, and clinically relevant outputs.
• Partner with statisticians, programmers, product, engineering, and operational teams to deliver validated scoring implementations.
• Investigate discrepancies and implausible outputs, resolve ambiguities, and develop reusable templates, SOPs, checklists, and governance assets.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in outcomes research, psychometrics, epidemiology, public health, psychology, health sciences, or a related discipline.
• At least 7 years of relevant experience in COA science, outcomes research, psychometrics, patient-centred research, pharma, CRO, healthcare research, or instrument development.
• Experience with instrument development, validation, psychometric evidence, and interpretation or meaningful-change research.
• Deep knowledge of COA domains, scoring structures, recall periods, missing-data rules, interpretation, and clinical research use.
• Experience applying complex scoring methodologies beyond simple sum or average scoring and translating source materials into structured specifications.
• Experience with regulated or audit-sensitive clinical research workflows, stakeholder management, and reviewing work from junior colleagues. Excellent written English is required.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a global provider of clinical research and healthcare intelligence services.
• Collaborate across scientific, operational, quantitative, product, and technical functions.
• Contribute to standardised, scalable scoring practices and governance frameworks.
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
• The CV must be submitted in English.