Pharmacoepidemiologist (m/f/d)

For one of our clients, a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals, we are currently looking for a Pharmacoepidemiologist to support the epidemiology activities performed in Global Safety and Risk Management organisation.

In this role you will be personally involved in design, conduct, analysis, interpretation and report of simple and complex epidemiological studies based on Real word data sources (CLAIMS or EHR), registry and/or literature sources and will have scientific oversight and management of non-interventional studies if outsourced and initiated by Safety and Risk Management.
 

General Information: 
 

• Start date: ASAP/February 2026
• Duration: 9 months (maternity cover)
• Contract: temporary contract via Randstad
• Extension: to be discussed
• Workplace: Basel 
• Workload: 100%
• Home Office: 2 days/week (after 2-3 months onboarding)
• Working hours: Standard

 

Tasks & Responsibilities:
 

• Independent analyses of secondary data, including insurance claims, electronic medical record, patient survey, and disease registry.
• Supporting the development of research protocols and statistical analysis plans. The recommendation and implementation of appropriate analytical methodology (e.g., propensity score matching, regression analysis etc.) for real world data (RWD) studies.
• The design, development, testing, implementation, validation, documentation, and the maintenance of effective and efficient R programs for reporting observational database studies. In addition, the evaluation of new data sources and the study design for observational studies focusing on safety endpoints
• Represent your function in internal and/or external cross- functional, strategic planning and/or other programs to innovate our use of methodologies or technology
• Oversight of scientific content of literature reviews, summaries of scientific literature, applying the findings and evidence-based best practices to the design of surveillance and epidemiological investigations, and the development of program recommendations.
• Thus, in collaboration with Safety Data Scientists, you will act as a strategic partner for clinical safety scientists to ensure rigorous quantitative approaches are available for molecule safety strategies.

Must Haves:
 

• You hold a university degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Outcomes Research, Health Economics or a relevant scientific field and should also hold a MSc or PhD in Epidemiology with a specialisation on data analysis (exceptionally qualified applicants with many years of relevant experience but without a Master’s degree are also encouraged to apply).
• At least 2 years applied working experience with relational real world databases, designing and execution of non-interventional RWD studies.
• A good knowledge of epidemiological study designs and in selecting appropriate pharmacoepidemiologic strategies for molecule plans.
• Ability to analyse data including Clinical Trials, Biomarker and insurance Claims, disease registries, surveys and EHR databases.
• Familiarity with medical terminology and dictionaries (MedDRA, SNOMED, ICD 10, CPT, HCPCS).
• The ability to design, develop, test, document R/Python/SQL programs for observational database studies.
• Able to transform data and analysis into informative data visualisations, reports and interactive dashboards using R Shiny, RMarkdown, Python.
• Ability to develop research protocols, statistical analysis plans and recommend analytical methodologies (e.g regression analysis).