Statistician

Employment Type: Full time Work Schedule: Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions: Office Location Type:

Company Information

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Position Overview

The Statistician will be part of multi-disciplinary research, providing statistical input on Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) projects from planning to completion. Projects typically involve post-hoc analyses of clinical trials and observational studies, which may be used to support evidence packages submitted to HTA bodies and other market access initiatives. This role offers the opportunity to collaborate with Senior Statisticians and contribute to the preparation of statistical analysis plans, develop analytical datasets, write programs to execute statistical analyses, and interpret and disseminate findings that can help support health-care decision making.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

• Contribute to the development of statistical analysis plans (SAPs) under guidance of Senior Statistician.
• Accountable for the execution of analyses as per SAP and following statistical SOPs in an efficient and timely manner under supervision of the Senior Statistician.
• Bring issues or inconsistencies with the data to the project lead.
• Peer review results of the analyses before they are sent to the project lead.
• Provide first draft of reports or presentations summarizing results of statistical analyses.
• Communication with internal/external clients.
• Participate in meetings and discussions with clients.
• Communicate effectively and proactively with project teams.

Consulting Expectations

• Provide insights on the data to a Senior Statistician.
• Provide input in discussions and interpretation of results.
• Support Senior Statisticians with aspects of proposal development (e.g., background sections, statistical tasks and budget required in familiar project-types).

Financial

• Responsible for achieving utilization and proposal and sales targets.

Education, Professional Skills & Experience

• Education: MSc in Biostatistics, Statistics, or Related field with 2+ years of experience, OR BSc in Statistics, Biostatistics or Related field with 5+ years of experience.
• Skills & Experience:
  • Strong basis in fundamental statistical concepts and methods.
  • Familiarity with techniques such as development of predictive equations, survival analysis (including parametric methods), longitudinal data analysis, meta-analysis, network meta-analysis, population adjusted indirect treatment comparisons, utility analyses, etc., will be an asset.
  • Strong statistical programming skills with standard software, including R, STATA or SAS.
  • Background in epidemiology, HEOR, or HTA would be a great asset.

Personal Skills & Competencies

• Demonstrates sound professional judgment in analyzing, responding to, and resolving enquiries and issues.
• Works well in a team as well as independently.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and document information effectively in written English, including the ability to produce reports, documents, emails and other written pieces which are well-organized, free from errors, and are appropriately adjusted to the characteristics and needs of the audience.