Real-World Evidence Scientific Lead (Pharmacoepidemiology)

Location: Gentilly, France; hybrid work with remote work up to 2 days per week

Salary: €89,200–€118,933 per year

Company

Global AI-powered biopharma company focused on immunology, diabetes, transplant medicine, vaccines, and innovative medicines.

What you will do

• Partner with Real-World Evidence Strategy Leads to deliver evidence for registration, pre-launch, and peri-launch activities across multiple therapeutic areas.
• Manage the end-to-end planning, execution, communication, and closure of real-world research studies, ensuring timely delivery, budget compliance, specification, and scientific rigor.
• Provide scientific input on study design, cohort construction, protocols, statistical analysis plans, study operations, data analysis, results interpretation, and clinical study reports.
• Collaborate with internal and external scientific experts to ensure real-world data and evidence are fit for regulatory, market access, and clinical use.
• Act as a methodological expert, identify and validate external data sources, and develop budgets with internal stakeholders and vendors.
• Maintain alignment on evidence strategy, study progress, risks, and mitigation while supporting medical gaps within Global Integrated Evidence Generation Plans.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in pharmaco-epidemiology, biostatistics, or Health Outcomes; a PhD is preferred. Business education is a plus.
• At least 7 years of experience generating real-world evidence in the pharmaceutical industry, including end-to-end leadership experience.
• Strong publication track record in relevant journals.
• Experience across Type 1 diabetes, transplant, cardiovascular and metabolic disease, neurology, oncology, immunology, rare disease, insulin-based therapies, and alliance-related therapeutic areas.
• Expertise in pharmacoepidemiology, HEOR, and real-world evidence study design.
• Experience working with routinely collected healthcare data and managing real-world studies end to end.
• Understanding of commercial strategy.
• Ability to influence and motivate teams and senior leaders, with strategic thinking, ownership, urgency, and a proactive attitude.
• Fluent English is mandatory.

Nice to have

• PhD in pharmaco-epidemiology, biostatistics, or Health Outcomes.
• Education in business.
• A second European language.

Culture & Benefits

• Fixed salary over 12 months with short-term incentives, profit-sharing, and bonuses based on group results.
• 31 days of paid leave plus RTT days, quality health insurance, and public transportation coverage up to 80%.
• Maternity leave, child welcoming leave, savings and retirement plans with employer contributions, and Works Council benefits.
• Remote work up to 2 days per week, internal and international mobility, and a customizable training program.
• Opportunities to collaborate across science, clinical, and digital fields, work with AI and data platforms, and pursue scientific and leadership career development.