Urgently Looking For Sr. Biostatistician and SAS Programmer, Bridgewater, NJ

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Aug 11, 2010, 4:18:50 PM8/11/10
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Hello,

My name is Akanksha and I'm a recruiter at Artech.

Artech has an urgent contract for one of our direct clients:

Job Title:  Bio-Statistician with SAS programming skills
Location:  Bridgewater, NJ 
Duration:  1 year+ (strong possibility of further extension)


Job Description:
Duties:
Position Summary:

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 documentations 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,, work flow 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 team of analytic and programming support

Skills:
• Working knowledge of healthcare industry
• Strong expertise in SAS programming and other related analytic software and power estimation
• Solid knowledge in experimental design and observational study methodology
• Ability to perform statistical, analytic and programming tasks with high efficiency and limited guidance
• Be willing and able to work flexibly

Education:
PhD in statistics, econometrics, psychometrics, or related quantitative sciences, or master’s degree in statistics plus >10 years of experiences in claims database analytic work and statistical modeling

 

If you are qualified, available, interested, planning to make a change, or know of a friend who might have the required qualifications and interest, please send me the updated resume in word format ASAP, even if we have spoken recently about a different position. If you do respond via e-mail please include a daytime phone number so I can reach you. In considering candidates, time is of the essence, so please respond ASAP.

Artech is a global Consulting company with over 30 Fortune 500 customers.  You may visit our website at www.artechinfo.com to learn more about us.

Thank you.

Sincerely yours,
Akanksha Nigam
Akanksh...@artechinfo.com


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