Senior Health Economist

Role Summary

• Responsibilities: As an early member of our Health Economics team in our brand-new Canadian office, you will take a leading role in the development of health economic models across a variety of disease areas, using your expertise to deliver high-quality projects and build client relationships. You will also help to drive business development, as well as overseeing and supporting junior team members as we expand our presence and impact in Canada
• Salary: A starting salary of CAD $95,000 – CAD $100,000 per annum, depending on previous experience (please note that we have established salary bands that are determined by your level of educational attainment to ensure a fair and consistent approach for all applicants, eliminating the need for individual negotiations)
• Benefits: Hybrid and flexible working options, generous vacation allowance, private health and dental insurance, life insurance, RRSP/TFSA plan with up to a 5% employer contribution, full funding and study leave for external training and more
• Role Type: Full-time, permanent role
• Start Date: We are currently recruiting for start dates throughout 2026, which occur on a monthly basis, and you will be asked to state your availability on your application form
• Application Deadlines: While there are no set application deadlines, we strongly recommend applying as early as possible. The role, or particular start dates, may close when a suitable candidate is found
• Location: This role is available in our brand-new Vancouver office

About the Role

Do you have experience in successfully conceptualizing, developing and communicating health economic models that demonstrate the value of new healthcare interventions in the Canadian setting? Do you enjoy building and maintaining client relationships? Are you looking to join a growing company offering excellent career prospects?

As a Senior Health Economist at Costello Medical, you will play a key role within project teams to ensure work is delivered to an exceptionally high quality and in line with client expectations. This includes providing strategic advice to clients from model conceptualization through to interpretation of results, training more junior members of our Health Economics team, and delivering technical work yourself to progress your own modelling skills. There may also be opportunities to line manage Health Economist Interns to develop your mentorship skills.

Our Health Economics team delivers modelling projects to a broad range of pharmaceutical and MedTech companies as well as public sector and non-profit organizations. You will work across different client accounts in many different disease areas and should therefore be able to familiarise yourself with new disease areas and model structures quickly. The ideal candidate would also have direct experience in the delivery of health economic models for Canadian HTA submissions to Canada’s Drug Agency (CDA-AMC) and Institut national d'excellence en santé et en services sociaux (INESSS), as well as global and US model development, given our Canadian team will support on global, Canadian, and US projects.

As a founding member of our Health Economics team in the North American region, you will also play a key role in contributing to business development by developing and maintaining excellent client relationships and identifying opportunities to provide additional services to clients within projects.

Senior Health Economists are supported to progress to the Consultant Health Economist role, and this can typically be achieved in 1 to 2 years. As a Consultant Health Economist, you would have ultimate responsibility for the high-quality delivery of a range of projects, and lead in business development efforts to win new work and maintain and grow your own client relationships. In addition to project management, you would line manage team members and have internal responsibilities spanning areas such as recruitment and training.

Career Profile

We offer many opportunities for personal and professional development at Costello Medical. Please click below to read firsthand accounts from our colleagues about their time with the company: https://www.costellomedical.com/careers/working-at-costello-medical/

About Costello Medical

Costello Medical is one of the largest independent global healthcare agencies specialising in medical communications, market access and health economics and outcomes research. We work with a wide range of clients, including the industry’s most successful pharmaceutical and MedTech companies, patient and public health bodies and charitable organizations. We have been listed on the Top 100 Best Companies to Work For list since 2017, as well as receiving B Corporation Accreditation in 2022. Please click here to learn more about us, our work and our mission: https://www.costellomedical.com/

Requirements

About You

We are looking for individuals who are collaborative, self-motivated and enthusiastic. You will take pride in producing exceptionally high-quality work and building successful client relationships. You will identify and capitalize on opportunities to go above and beyond for clients and exceed their expectations wherever possible. You will thrive in a fast-paced environment, be highly organized and able to manage timelines across multiple projects.

This role is suited to those who have typically no less than 2 years’ professional experience in applying health economic and mathematical modelling techniques in the healthcare setting, ideally within a pharmaceutical, medical devices or medical consulting company/agency. Specifically, we are looking for candidates with the following experience:

• Working on health economic projects, for example cost-effectiveness models or budget impact models, directly with clients, from project initiation to completion
• Leading a project team, including delegating tasks and managing the time of others coupled with the ability to manage timelines across multiple projects at once and the flexibility to respond to changing deadlines
• A proven ability to build robust and sustainable client relationships, which involves communicating directly with clients and responding to different communication styles

In addition, essential requirements for the role are:

• A degree level or higher qualification in a relevant discipline (minimum 3.3 GPA). Relevant disciplines are those that demonstrate a high level of technical and mathematical ability, such as mathematics, economics, physics or computer science. Formal degree-level or higher (i.e. postgraduate) training in statistics or health economic modelling is desirable, though not required
• Experience with developing health economic models for submission to HTA bodies, such as the CDA-AMC or INESSS
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to explain complex modelling techniques and results to non-experts
• Advanced skills in Excel and VBA
• The ability to use your initiative and work independently, in addition to working collaboratively within project teams
• A high degree of accuracy and attention to detail
• Flexibility to respond to changing deadlines

Desirable requirements for the role:

• Prior experience of having mentored others in any setting
• Experience with other software (such as R, C++, STATA) alongside a willingness to learn new technical and programming skills is important for the role
• An aptitude for business development, a strong sense of initiative, and the willingness to build a small team with support and guidance from senior colleagues

Benefits

What We Offer

Alongside our award-winning company culture, where every team member is celebrated, respected, and has their voice heard, our comprehensive benefits package includes:

• A starting salary of CAD $95,000 – CAD $100,000 per annum, depending on your qualifications and previous experience. Please note that we have established salary bands that ensure a fair and consistent approach for all applicants, eliminating the need for individual negotiations
• 18 days’ vacation leave increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 22 days and 11 statutory holidays
• Flexible, reasonable working hours and the chance to work from home for up to half of your working time
• 100% employer covered extended healthcare plan, as well as life insurance and AD&D coverage
• Retirement savings via a RRSP/TFSA plan with up to a 5% employer match
• Paid funding for external education and study leave
• Paid and unpaid sabbaticals based on length of service

Hybrid Working Policy: We believe that having face-to-face time in the office holds many benefits and is central to ensuring that the community we have created, where people have a workplace they belong to and feel part of, is never lost. At the same time, we recognise that homeworking can improve work life balance, reduce commuting times and costs, and provide the opportunity to juggle personal commitments.

Therefore, we offer flexible working arrangements that allow our colleagues to work from home for up to half of the time, measured across a 2-week rolling period.

The Application Process

You are required to submit your resume and a cover letter via our online application form. In your cover letter, you must explain why you think you would be suited to the role and why you would like to join Costello Medical, with examples to support both. Your resume should clearly state the dates of all qualifications and grades achieved where applicable.

Our recruitment process includes a telephone interview with a member of the Talent Acquisition team followed by a comprehensive assessment for you to complete in your own time, which requires you to use Excel. If successful, you will be invited to an interview which will include a short presentation you can prepare for in advance. Our standard recruitment process lasts around 6 weeks; however, this can be adapted if necessary.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce and, throughout the recruitment process, there are a number of reasonable adjustments we can provide. Please click here to learn more.

Please note that, while we embrace AI to innovate and improve processes it is important for us to assess your own critical thinking, technical skills and writing ability, so we recommend that you do not rely solely on this technology to generate any application materials.

Visa Sponsorship

We welcome applications from international candidates, but we are unfortunately unable to provide sponsorship for work permits. Therefore, you must have the right to work in Canada independently from the company. However, we are able to consider those on a temporary work permit, for example an IEC visa.