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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 – To enable 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. As part of our clinical research portfolio, our CorEvitas evidence-based solutions specialize in generating data intelligence and clinical insights needed to bring safe and effective treatments to market. Your objectivity and dedication to patient safety will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.  

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Remote, USA 

A key member of the CorEvitas Biostatistical Team, the Senior Biostatistician is the statistical team lead on many company projects. This role is directly responsible for the success of specific statistical deliverables. The multifaceted role requires interaction with academic affiliates, clients, various scientific resources, clinical principal investigators and project staff.  

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Discover Impactful Work: 

Senior Biostatistician brings statistical expertise for performing analyses such as investigating prescribing patterns, comparing effectiveness between treatments and investigating differences in safety outcomes.  

The CorEvitas Biostatistics team at CorEvitas has three major focuses of query work, pharmacovigilance (PV) work and registry coordination.  

With query work, we design, analyze and report on research projects, aka queries, with our clients to produce publications for the public domain (e.g. abstracts, posters, podium presentations, manuscripts, etc.)  Each query is a team effort that consists of this individual (biostatistician lead) who designs and leads analysis, biostatistician who performs the analysis, clinical epidemiologist who helps with design and frames the overall message and clinical research manager that coordinates the project.  

Our pharmacovigilance (PV) work consists of close collaboration with the PV team in which we design, analyze and report on long-term post approval safety studies with our pharma clients to provide real-world evidence regarding safety.  

With our registry coordination, we work cross-functionally with the Engineering, Clinical Data Management and Project Management teams on all the registry data taking into account client requests from our query and PV work. 

A day in the Life: 

Responsible for collaborating with investigators with diverse backgrounds to develop Statistical Analysis Plans (SAPs) that meet the requirements of the client research aims 

Responsible for development and dissemination of final analytic reports to clients 

Leads client-facing conversations regarding statistical aspects of client research projects 

Makes original contributions to research projects, takes initiative in professional activities and makes sound statistical decisions on an independent basis  

May oversee one or two members of the Biostatistical team (typically comprised of Biostatistician I/II/III) to complete the analyses detailed in the SAP, provide direction based on project requirements and ensure accuracy in maintaining data and program documentation 

Provide guidance and procedures to biostatistical group for data management and data integration 

Develop standardized algorithms and templates to create efficient and consistent statistical analyses 

Participation in a variety of weekly conference calls with clients, internal teams and senior Biostatistical staff 

Contribute and present published abstracts at research conferences and play a key role in published peer-reviewed manuscripts 

Performs sample size and power calculations for use in protocol development 

May train individuals within the department 

Keys to Success:  

Education 

Doctorate or Masters’ with appropriate experience level education in Biostatistics, Statistics or Mathematics (or equivalent) is required 

Experience 

Minimum 3-5 years of post-doctorate experience (for PhD) or comparable experience for Masters-level candidate in a research or medical setting 

Documented collaborative research experience with publications in peer-reviewed journals 

Demonstrated knowledge of retrospective and prospective observational study designs and related methodology 

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities 

Knowledge of medical terminology and clinical epidemiology preferred 

Must be highly proficient in at least one of the following statistical packages: R (preferred), SAS and/or Stata  

Must be very familiar with complex, longitudinal data 

Strong interpersonal skills are required 

Demonstrated analytic skills to problem solve effectively 

Strong scientific, leadership and communications skills as well as a strict adherence to ethical business and research practices 

Must be able to make independent judgments under general supervision  

Must be highly organized and detail-oriented, with excellent time management skills and the ability to multi-task 

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