Role Description & Scope
our verified AI client is seeking experienced **Clinical Research and Survey Methodology Experts** to support the development and refinement of physician-focused healthcare market research surveys. The ideal candidate combines **deep clinical expertise in specific diseases or therapeutic areas** with **hands-on experience in healthcare market research, survey design, and questionnaire development**. You will help ensure that surveys administered to healthcare professionals are clinically accurate, scientifically credible, appropriately structured, and relevant to real-world clinical practice. This is an opportunity for an ongoing collaboration across multiple therapeutic areas and research initiatives over the coming months.
## Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and refine physician-facing surveys across various diseases and therapeutic areas.
- Review survey questions for clinical accuracy, medical relevance, clarity, and appropriateness for the intended physician audience.
- Translate complex clinical concepts and research objectives into well-structured, unbiased survey questions.
- Apply established market research methodologies to improve questionnaire design, response options, survey flow, and data quality.
- Evaluate surveys for clinical terminology, treatment pathways, diagnostic criteria, patient management practices, and therapeutic relevance.
- Collaborate with research teams to incorporate feedback and maintain consistency across survey projects.
- Provide expert recommendations to improve survey validity, physician engagement, and overall research quality.
## Required Qualifications
- **Advanced clinical or scientific degree:** MD, DO, PhD, PharmD, or equivalent qualification in medicine, clinical research, or a closely related discipline.
- **Clinical expertise:** Strong understanding of specific diseases, therapeutic areas, treatment guidelines, and real-world clinical decision-making.
- **Healthcare market research experience:** Demonstrated experience designing, writing, reviewing, or validating healthcare professional (HCP) surveys.
- **Survey methodology:** Familiarity with questionnaire design, survey logic, response scales, question bias, and research best practices.
- Experience working with pharmaceutical companies, healthcare market research agencies, life sciences consulting firms, or clinical research organisations.
- Strong written communication skills and the ability to translate complex medical information into clear, actionable survey questions.
## Preferred Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in healthcare market research, clinical survey development, or related research activities.
- Previous experience developing surveys targeting physicians, specialists, or other healthcare professionals.
- Familiarity with platforms such as Qualtrics, Forsta, Decipher, Alchemer, or SurveyMonkey.
- Experience in therapeutic-area-specific market research, including treatment journeys, prescribing behaviour, clinical decision-making, and unmet medical needs.
- Experience supporting multiple research studies across different disease areas.
## Why Join our verified AI client?
- **Ongoing Collaboration:** Opportunity to participate in multiple healthcare research projects over the coming months.
- **Apply Your Expertise:** Combine your clinical knowledge and research methodology experience to improve the quality of physician-focused surveys.
- **Meaningful Research:** Contribute to projects that help healthcare and life sciences organisations better understand clinical practices and physician perspectives.