Biostatistician with SAS programming II

Job Description

Location:: Cambridge, MA

Visa Status:: Any work visa (Visa sponsorship available)

Salary::$100/hr.

Duration::

Job Description:

Duties: To perform tasks under the guidance of project lead or CMS departmental principals on analytic design and statistical analytic planning, coordinate real-world database management, and data warehouse construction or maintenance; to develop documentation of analytic plans, prepare for statistical concept communications and be able to advise on analytic strategies and recommend methodological solutions on complex analytic topics; to lead and perform statistical analysis, modeling, reporting, analytic interpretations, and slide development; to develop SAS macro libraries to standardize disease identification, cohort constructions, mapping of healthcare resource utilization and expenditures to standard metrics for product value propositions; to construct drug coding systems to support database activities for key therapeutic R;D and brand LCM activities, and establish and maintain a repository of the coding systems for therapeutic medications, diagnostic or surgical procedures and drug delivery systems ; to establish and main variety of disease identification and composite comorbidity assessment tools and algorithms; to conduct analytic quality assurance procedures; to provide timely analytic support for abstract and manuscript development and submissions to medical/scientific congresses or publications; to provide analytic support for internal and external communications and statistical interpretations of data under the guidance of departmental methodological principals.

 

Roles & Responsibilities:

·     Develop statistical analytic plans, statistical expertise and data management techniques and skills

·    Manage real-world database operations, analytic programming and statistical modeling activities

·     Assist project lead or departmental principals in study design, power calculation, CRF construction, analytic operations and reporting for retrospective and prospective studies

·     Assist project lead or departmental principals in analytic/computing resource planning, workflow management and prioritization, and related logistic coordination

·     Prepare communication materials on analytic projects including processes, data, analytic findings for internal and external functional groups within or outside of CMS.

·     Prepare slide decks for congress or manuscript submissions or internal or external communications.

·     Plan and initiate analytic projects using the real-world databases or clinical trial data warehouse in support of the CMS initiatives

·     Provides consultation for all CMS groups on research methodology and statistical or analytic issues.

·     Vendor Management.

·     Database licensing and maintenance.

·     Analytic process formulation and standardization.

·     Potentially supervising a team of analytic and programming support.

Skills and Experience:
Required Skills: 
REAL WORLD
MANAGERIAL
SAS
BIOSTATISTICS/EPIDEMIOLOGY
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
Additional Skills:
CRF
STATISTICAL MODELING
VENDOR MANAGEMENT
BUDGET
CONTRACTS
DATA ANALYSIS
STATISTICAL PROGRAMMING
SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT
Languages:
English
        Read
        Write
        Speak
Minimum Degree Required: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.)

Qualification::