Healthcare Survey Research & Pharma Insights Expert | $140/hr | Worldwide Remote
Mercor is partnering with a leading AI research organisation to engage experienced healthcare market research and pharmaceutical insights professionals for an urgent initiative to design and review physician and patient survey instruments. Initial surveys will cover prostate cancer, ulcerative colitis, and migraine, with additional therapeutic areas — including COPD — to follow.
What You'll Do
- Design, review, and refine physician and patient survey instruments for pharmaceutical and healthcare research.
- Translate research objectives into clear, methodologically sound questionnaires.
- Evaluate screeners, eligibility criteria, question wording, response scales, survey flow, and branching/skip logic.
- Identify leading, ambiguous, or otherwise problematic questions and provide actionable written recommendations.
- Ensure surveys are appropriately constructed for physician, specialist, PCP, and patient audiences.
- Review respondent burden, ordering effects, recall requirements, and potential sources of measurement bias.
- Incorporate pharmaceutical and healthcare market-research conventions into survey design.
- Collaborate with therapeutic-area specialists to ensure clinical accuracy and appropriate framing.
Ideal Background
Strong candidates may come from roles such as Healthcare Market Research Manager/Director, Pharmaceutical Market Researcher, Primary Market Research Manager, Patient or HCP Insights Lead, Survey Methodologist, Quantitative Researcher, Behavioural Scientist, or Healthcare Insights Consultant — among others.
Key Qualifications
- 3+ years of professional experience in healthcare, pharmaceutical, life-sciences, or medically focused research.
- Hands-on experience developing or fielding surveys involving physicians, patients, or other healthcare stakeholders.
- Strong command of questionnaire design and survey methodology.
- Familiarity with physician research considerations: speciality screening, prescribing patterns, treatment pathways, and clinical terminology.
- Experience with patient surveys covering diagnosis history, treatment experience, quality of life, and adherence is highly valued.
- Familiarity with platforms such as Qualtrics, Decipher/Forsta, Alchemer, or similar tools is helpful but not required.
Therapeutic-Area Expertise
Expertise in one or more of the following areas is highly valuable:
- Oncology — particularly prostate cancer
- Gastroenterology — particularly ulcerative colitis / IBD
- Neurology — particularly migraine and headache disorders
- Pulmonology / Respiratory Medicine — particularly COPD
Candidates with exceptional depth in healthcare survey methodology are strongly encouraged to apply even without therapeutic-area specialisation, as pairing with dedicated clinical experts is possible.
Why Join
- Apply your healthcare research expertise to cutting-edge AI and research initiatives.
- Directly influence the quality of real physician and patient research instruments.
- Work across multiple therapeutic areas with experienced clinical and life-sciences specialists.
