Senior Research Statistician

This position is the lead statistician for a team focused on supporting scholarly research primarily using administrative (e.g., healthcare claims, medical records) and public data sources. The role involves handling data cleaning, transformation, and analysis for multiple projects at once with any level of complexity and serving as the primary contact with the Primary Investigator (PI) team for all biostatistics-related activities and communications on assigned projects. This includes preparation of results and associated materials for manuscripts submitted to peer-reviewed journals. The role requires engagement with physicians, healthcare business leaders, and others with varied backgrounds in research methods and/or statistics, necessitating the ability to clearly translate complex design, data, and analytic concepts.

Beyond team operations, the senior research statistician serves as an enterprise and team resource for complex statistical questions, study design considerations, and protocol development. The statistician will also contribute to the team’s development of research and analytic resources, such as identification and organization of relevant methodology papers and development of code templates and scripts.

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 output meets expectations and is consistent with analysis described in SAP.
• Presents analyses to internal and external stakeholders.
• Conducts literature reviews related to analyses.
• Prepares manuscripts for publication.
• Mentors and advises junior research statisticians.
• Discusses time estimates for completion of study-related activities with stakeholders and management and proactively communicates any difficulties with meeting timelines.
• Monitors progress on study activities against agreed-upon milestones and ensures 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.
• Performs other duties as assigned or requested.

Requirements

• Master's degree in analytics, health services research, epidemiology, or biostatistics with 3 years of statistical analysis experience, OR
• Bachelor's degree in analytics, health services research, epidemiology, or biostatistics with 6 years of statistical analysis experience, OR
• 3 years of statistical analysis experience.

Qualifications

• Doctorate in analytics, health services research, epidemiology, statistics, or biostatistics (preferred).
• Experience as lead and/or coauthor for published, peer-reviewed manuscripts.
• Knowledge of and experience in causal inference approaches (e.g., propensity score matching, inverse probability weighting, DiD) for a variety of observational research designs, preferably demonstrated in scientific publications.
• Experience analyzing large datasets based on health insurance claims and/or medical records data using statistical software.
• Statistical consultative experience or working as a statistician on a multidisciplinary team(s).

Skills

• Advanced knowledge of SAS, R, or Stata.
• Builds strong relationships with peers and cross-functional collaborators to achieve high performance.
• Ability to apply knowledge of advanced statistical design, analysis, and programming techniques utilized in clinical research and to effectively communicate statistical concepts.
• High degree of technical competence and effective communication skills, both oral and written.

Pay

Base pay range: $94,200.00 – $151,000.00. Pay is determined by a variety of factors including qualifications, experience, expected contributions, internal peer equity, market, and business considerations. Geographic differentials may apply for certain locations.

Schedule

• Position Type: Office-based.
• Travel Requirement: 0%–25%.