Principal Statistician

Sep 12, 2025

About us

Source Health Economics is a growing HEOR consultancy specialising in systematic review, value communication, health economics, statistics, and health technology assessment. Since we were founded in 2016, we have achieved our planned year-on-year growth, allowing many opportunities for personal development.

At Source, we have a technically-excellent, supportive, and friendly team, and pride ourselves on our inclusive and collaborative culture. Our core values are excellence, balance, and growth. We strive to:

    • Deliver excellence for our clients and patients, whilst
    • Preserving a good work-life balance and supporting employee well-being, and
    • Providing opportunities for growth for our employees.

We recruit some of the brightest minds and invest in your professional development.

Why work with us?

Source is a fun, personable company, where our technical teams work closely with each other, enabling us all to learn from some of the best minds in the business. We value our employees, and all employees are encouraged to voice their ideas and contribute to business initiatives, regardless of seniority. Source prides itself on its commitment to employee welfare, as evidenced by our high employee retention.

We have open-plan offices in Oxford and London, with hybrid working. Our contractual working hours are 37.5 hours per week, with flexible start and finish times around our core company hours of 10 am to 4 pm.

Alongside an opportunity to actively contribute to a growing company, we offer a competitive salary, 25 days annual leave plus UK bank holidays, 3 days Christmas closure, option to buy an additional 5 days of annual leave, discretionary bonus scheme, opt-in employee health insurance, employee life insurance, cycle to work scheme, and above-average employer pension contributions.

The role

We are looking for an experienced statistician who has an interest in applied statistical methods for evidence synthesis. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual who is proactive, shows initiative, and has experience in contributing to the design and execution of statistical analyses, reporting results and mentoring fellow statisticians. The role will be based in either Oxford, London or home-based.

Source is a HEOR consultancy specialising in health economics, systematic review and health technology assessment. At Source, we have a supportive and friendly team who are focused on delivering high-quality evidence-based solutions for their clients.

Duties will include:

  • Leading on statistical projects, including:
    • Meta-analysis feasibility assessments and statistical analysis plans (SAP)
    • Writing code to perform analyses including pair-wise meta-analyses, network meta-analyses (NMA), population-adjusted indirect comparisons, and individual patient data (IPD) analysis
  • Undertaking project management activities on statistical projects to ensure quality and timely delivery including:
    • Project planning
    • Client liaison
    • Managing and reviewing the work of other statisticians
    • Quality control
  • Leading on the development of evidence synthesis proposals and pitch presentations
  • Leading on the development of standard operating and quality control processes for evidence synthesis
  • Delivering training to statisticians, health economists, and systematic reviewers
  • Line management of small team of statisticians

Skills, Knowledge & Experience Required: 

ESSENTIAL:

Education: Educated to an advanced level: Master’s degree or above in quantitative discipline.

Experience:

  • Previous HEOR industry experience.
  • Previous experience with statistical analyses for HTA submission.
  • Substantial experience in evidence synthesis techniques, including meta-analysis, NMA (including time-varying survival analyses), population-adjusted indirect comparisons.
  • Proficiency with statistical software.
  • Extensive experience of generating feasibility assessments, SAPs and technical reports.
  • Presentation of complex statistical information and results clearly to colleagues and clients with a wide range of statistical understanding.
  • Strong understanding of how meta-analysis / ITC results inform health economic models.

Leadership and Mentoring: Some experience in technical and statistical leadership of teams, mentoring junior statisticians, and fostering a learning environment.

General Skills:

  • Good communicator and influencer at all levels of the organisation, with the ability to impart knowledge clearly on a particular subject area(s).
  • Excellent level of accuracy and attention to detail.
  • Self-management skills with a focus on results for timely and accurate completion of competing deliverables.
  • Strong problem-solving ability.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

 

DESIRABLE:

Education: Master’s degree or above in medical statistics.

Experience:

  • Experience with recent NMA developments such as ML-NMR methodology.
  • Experience with R, Stata and / or WinBUGS/OpenBUGS specifically.
  • Provide expert input when reviewing reports written by statistics colleagues and content from other teams, to ensure the reports meet a high standard and align with company house-style.
  • Experience in contributing to the continuous learning and upskilling of more junior members of the statistics team.
  • Experience of selling and providing training sessions to external clients.
  • Innovative solutions for complex problems.

Leadership and Mentoring: Substantial experience in technical and statistical leadership of teams, mentoring junior statisticians, and fostering a learning environment.

General Skills: Identify risks to project delivery and/or quality, lead in a way to minimise risks.

What to expect:

Join a company where balance, growth, and excellence guide everything we do.

  • A genuinely friendly and supportive environment where you can thrive both personally and professionally, within a consultancy that truly values its people and the quality of its client work.
  • Accessible and approachable leadership, offering regular interaction with senior team members who are committed to your development and helping you build the skills needed to advance your career.
  • Diverse and rewarding project exposure, giving you the opportunity to collaborate with a wide range of clients and teams, and apply varied methods while contributing to impactful work with major pharmaceutical companies.
  • Empowerment to take ownership of your role, with the freedom to grow your expertise, shape your career path, and make meaningful contributions from day one.

 

How to apply

For an opportunity to join us, please apply here

Come and join us at Source and see what you can achieve!

NOTE: CVs from recruiters on our preferred supplier list need to be sent to [email protected]. Recruiters interested in becoming a preferred supplier need to email [email protected]@source-he.com.

We are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion within our teams and encourage applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religious preference, sexual orientation, or physical attributes.

We have a legal obligation to ensure that all our employees have the right to work in the UK. If we make an offer of employment, we will need to check that you are eligible to work in the UK before you start.

Successful candidates might be subject to background checks.

Source is part of Sciris. Sciris specialises in bespoke programmes in health economics and outcomes research, healthcare communication, creative and brand strategy, medical compliance, insights, and insights.

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