Research Statistician

Highmark Health • PA, Working at Home - Pennsylvania, PA

23h • $72,700 - $116,600 • Onsite

About The Position

This position will act as the lead statistician for multiple projects with any level of complexity and will be the primary contact with the sponsor for all biostatistics related activities on assigned projects. Serves as an enterprise resource for complex statistical questions, study design considerations, and protocol development.

Requirements

• Master's degree in analytics, health services research, epidemiology, statistics, or biostatistics
• Bachelor's Degree in analytics, health services research, epidemiology, statistics, or biostatistics with 3 years of relevant work experience.
• 0 years of experience
• Intermediate knowledge of SAS, R, or Stata
• Ability to apply knowledge of statistical design, analysis, and programming techniques utilized in clinical research and to effectively communicate statistical concepts
• Technical competence and effective communication skills, both oral and written

Nice To Haves

• None

Responsibilities

• Writes and reviews statistical analysis plans (SAPs) based on the protocol, including development of well-presented mock-up displays for tables, listings, and figures.
• Creates or reviews programming specifications for analysis datasets, tables, listings, figures, and presentations.
• Conducts and participates in review and quality control of project deliverables, ensuring that output meets expectations and is consistent with analysis described in SAP.
• Presents analyses to internal and external stakeholders.
• Conducts literature reviews related to analyses.
• Discusses time estimates for completion of study-related activities with stakeholders and management and proactively communicates to management any difficulties with meeting these timelines.
• Monitors progress on study activities against agreed upon milestones and ensures the study timelines for project deliverables are met.
• Identifies out of scope tasks and escalates to management.
• Participates in project teams, interfacing as necessary with other departmental project team representatives.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

Benefits

• Compliance Requirement: This job adheres to the ethical and legal standards and behavioral expectations as set forth in the code of business conduct and company policies.
• As a component of job responsibilities, employees may have access to covered information, cardholder data, or other confidential customer information that must be protected at all times. In connection with this, all employees must comply with both the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) as described in the Notice of Privacy Practices and Privacy Policies and Procedures as well as all data security guidelines established within the Company’s Handbook of Privacy Policies and Practices and Information Security Policy.
• Furthermore, it is every employee’s responsibility to comply with the company’s Code of Business Conduct. This includes but is not limited to adherence to applicable federal and state laws, rules, and regulations as well as company policies and training requirements.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level