Senior Statistician

HEOR
Cardiff
1 year ago
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An exciting opportunity is available for a Senior Statistician to join the HEOR team. If you are passionate about applying your statistical expertise to make a difference in healthcare, we'd love to hear from you!

In this position, you will apply your statistical and mathematical skills to deliver analytical solutions that guide decision-making within the healthcare sector. You will work alongside a skilled team of data scientists and health economists on a variety of projects that employ diverse statistical techniques to tackle complex healthcare problems.

As a Senior Statistician, your main responsibility will be to ensure the high-quality execution of statistical modelling at HEOR, utilizing a wide range of analytical approaches. This includes indirect treatment comparisons, data analysis (covering individual patient-level data from trials and registries as well as analyses of surrogate endpoints), propensity score matching, and regression techniques.

In this role, you will have the chance to shape the direction of projects while maintaining the quality and accuracy of statistical analyses. Your contributions will be essential in assisting our clients within the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, enabling them to make informed decisions.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in network meta-analysis and indirect treatment comparisons.
  • Strong proficiency in statistical programming (R, SAS, SQL Python, C++).
  • Experience inputting, coding, cleaning and analysing trial data, real world data, aggregate data for meta-analysis
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to communicate complex statistical concepts effectively
  • Experience in managing multiple projects and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
  • Experience in applying and mentoring others in application of a variety of statistical approaches

Benefits

Competitive compensation and benefits package, including:

  • A ‘learning’ culture focused on personal development and supported by study bursaries
  • Workplace pension scheme
  • Private health insurance with AXA Health
  • Range of high street, supermarket, restaurant, gym membership, holiday and entertainment discounts via Sodexho
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Employee assistance programme
  • Employees are given an additional day of leave for: their wedding and moving house
  • Annual leave purchase scheme of up to 10 additional days’ leave per year

If you would like to request any reasonable adjustment, for any part of the recruitment process (including application), please let us know by emailing

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