Healthcare Survey Methodology Specialist

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI research organisation to engage experienced healthcare market research, survey methodology, and pharmaceutical insights professionals for an urgent research initiative to design and review physician and patient surveys. We are looking for professionals who have designed, programmed, fielded, reviewed, or advised on healthcare survey instruments, particularly research involving physicians, patients, or other healthcare professionals. The strongest candidates will combine rigorous survey-design expertise with familiarity with pharmaceutical research and specific therapeutic areas. However, candidates with exceptional depth in healthcare survey methodology are strongly encouraged to apply even if they are not therapeutic-area specialists.

Initial surveys will cover prostate cancer, ulcerative colitis, and migraine, with additional indications expected over time, including COPD and other disease areas.

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, branching/skip logic, and overall instrument structure.

• Identify leading, ambiguous, overly technical, or otherwise problematic questions.

• Ensure questionnaires are appropriately constructed for physician, specialist, PCP, and patient audiences.

• Review survey length, respondent burden, ordering effects, recall requirements, and potential sources of measurement bias.

• Assess whether questions will generate reliable, interpretable, and decision-useful data.

• Incorporate pharmaceutical and healthcare market-research conventions into survey design.

• Collaborate with therapeutic-area specialists to ensure questions are clinically accurate and appropriately framed.

• Where qualified, independently review both the research methodology and therapeutic-area content of an instrument.

• Provide clear written explanations and actionable recommendations for survey improvements.

What We’re Looking For

Candidates may come from backgrounds including:

• Healthcare / pharmaceutical market research

• Healthcare consumer insights

• Pharmaceutical primary market research

• Survey methodology

• Quantitative healthcare research

• Patient or physician research

• Behavioural science

• Healthcare consulting

• Medical communications or research

• Life-sciences insights and analytics

• Patient experience / patient insights

Relevant titles may include:

• Healthcare Market Research Manager / Director

• Pharmaceutical Market Researcher

• Primary Market Research Manager

• Consumer / Patient Insights Manager

• Healthcare Insights Consultant

• Survey Researcher / Survey Methodologist

• Quantitative Researcher

• Research Director

• Healthcare Research Consultant

• Behavioural Scientist

• Patient Insights Lead

• HCP Insights Lead

• Commercial Insights Manager / Director

• Medical Insights Researcher

Ideal Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in healthcare, pharmaceutical, life-sciences, or medically focused research.