Key Responsibilities

This role requires

*5+ years of experience in SLRs.

*Stakeholder and team management experience.

Technical and Scientific Delivery

- Lead the design and execution of systematic literature reviews, targeted literature reviews, rapid reviews, and evidence gap assessments.
- Develop technically robust review protocols, search strategies, screening criteria, data-extraction frameworks, and analysis plans.
- Apply recognized systematic review standards and reporting frameworks, including PRISMA and relevant health technology assessment guidance.
- Conduct and oversee title and abstract screening, full-text review, data extraction, quality assessment, and evidence synthesis.
- Critically appraise clinical, epidemiological, economic, patient-reported outcome, and real-world evidence studies.
- Interpret heterogeneous evidence and develop clear, scientifically balanced conclusions.
- Prepare high-quality technical reports, manuscripts, conference abstracts, slide decks, and client-facing deliverables.
- Support qualitative and, where relevant, quantitative evidence synthesis, including feasibility assessments for meta-analysis and network meta-analysis.
- Ensure that review methods and outputs are transparent, reproducible, and suitable for regulatory, publication, reimbursement, or health technology assessment purposes.

Project Leadership

- Manage systematic review projects from initiation through final delivery.
- Translate client objectives into explicit research questions, deliverables, timelines, and workplans.
- Allocate tasks across project teams and monitor progress against agreed milestones.
- Identify methodological,



operational, and timeline risks and implement appropriate mitigation plans.
- Ensure projects are delivered to the required scientific standard, within scope, and according to agreed timelines and budgets.
- Coordinate effectively with statisticians, health economists, medical writers, information specialists, and other internal experts.
- Maintain clear project documentation and support compliance with internal quality-management procedures.

Quality Assurance

- Review protocols, search outputs, extraction tables, evidence summaries, reports, and presentations produced by project teams.
- Provide detailed scientific and methodological feedback to ensure accuracy, consistency, and clarity.
- Verify that conclusions are appropriately supported by the available evidence.
- Promote consistent application of internal templates, standard operating procedures, and systematic review best practices.
- Contribute to the development and improvement of evidence-synthesis methods, tools, and quality-control processes.

Team Leadership and Development

- Provide day-to-day technical guidance to analysts, research associates, and consultants.
- Delegate work according to team members’ experience, capacity, and development needs.
- Review team members’ work and provide constructive, timely feedback.
- Support onboarding, training, mentoring, and capability development within the systematic reviews team.
- Help foster a collaborative, accountable, and scientifically rigorous team culture.
- Contribute to performance discussions and identify development opportunities for junior colleagues.

📌 Team Lead - Systematic Literature Reviews (India)
🏢 AccuScript Consultancy
📍 India