Biostatistician Data Reporting & Analytics Consultant V, Clinician Research Division

Kaiser Permanente; Pasadena, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente's Southern California research division seeks a senior analytics leader to mentor teams and oversee complex data analyses that inform clinical care and health outcomes. You will develop advanced models, ensure data quality, and support publications while coordinating with cross-functional partners.

The role emphasizes leadership, methodological rigor, and the ability to translate data into actionable insights for health system improvements.

Qualifications

• Minimum three (3) years experience statistical consulting.
• Minimum two (2) years medical or health analytics experience.
• Minimum five (5) years statistical modeling experience using SAS, R, or another advanced statistical package.
• Minimum three (3) years experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional stakeholder collaboration to drive projects forward.
• Oversee complex data analyses and develop insights for decision making.
• Interpret results and tell a compelling story to stakeholders through reports and presentations.
• Develop and validate advanced analytical models for business and clinical use.

Education

Master's degree in Biostatistics, Statistics, Public Health, Data Science, or related field

Tools

SAS

R

Open Source Tools (Python)

Job description

Kaiser Permanent Southern California (KPSC) Department of Research and Evaluation's Division of Clinician Research provides support and resources for researchers who maintain clinical practices while building their own research portfolios. Key goals include fostering collaboration among clinician researchers, expanding research education, and promoting research that has the potential to transform care and improve the health of our communities.

Job Summary:

In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is also responsible for contributing to the publication process by writing method and results sections completely and independently; documenting processes and decision points; and outlining procedures This position is also responsible for writing and compiling manuals; overseeing the quality control effort; writing complex macros and distributable programs; creating advanced statistical models including identifying and appropriately addressing when assumptions have been violated; reviewing data for potential error, mistakes, and data quality issues; and breaking approved proposals into process steps.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; influencing team members within assigned unit; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentoring junior team members; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.
• Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promoting adherence to all procedures and policies; developing work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; determining and carrying out processes and methodologies; coordinating and delegating resources to accomplish organizational goals; partnering internally and externally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating issues or risks as appropriate; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and evaluating recommendations made by others.
• Interprets complex data analyses by applying findings to contextual settings; and developing insights, reports, and presentations telling a compelling story to stakeholders to enable and influence decision making; participating in peer reviews; and providing context related to data interpretations and/or limitations as appropriate.
• Leads the development of advanced analytical and/or statistical models enabling informed business decisions by determining data and analytical requirements; translating models and gaining stakeholder buy-in for implementation; creating complex models leading to actionable insights; and testing, refining, and validating models.
• Designs, implements, and automates business and reporting solutions by partnering with stakeholders to advise in their design, planning, and implementation while ensuring consistency and coherency; evaluating and summarizing data and results; creating summary statistics; designing data reports, visualizations, and/or interactive Business Intelligence (BI) reports; reporting to stakeholders on key findings; identifying needs for the development and implementation of additional reporting solutions; and preparing documentation as appropriate.
• Drives the execution of creative data analytic approaches leading to actionable outcomes across functional areas, business and/or clinical lines by defining and calculating complex metrics to be analyzed; defining, calculating, and validating algorithms; and conducting complex analyses, including descriptive, correlational, inferential, and/or predictive statistics.
• Prepares data for analytic efforts by integrating and consolidating data; ensuring data quality and accuracy; profiling data inaccuracies and recommending process improvements or system changes to enhance overall quality of the data; collaborating with stakeholders and source system owners to resolve data quality issues as appropriate; and cleaning and creating final data set(s) for analysis.
• Gathers data and information on targeted variables in an established systematic fashion by validating data sources; querying, merging, and extracting data across internal and external sources; completing routine data refresh and update; developing and/or delivering complex tools for electronic data collection; and providing user training, support, and documentation.
• Drives strategic data-informed decisions by consulting with clients and leadership to identify and clarify key business needs across functional areas, business and/or clinical lines; developing outcomes and process measures; translating business requirements; determining data/information needs and data collection methods; developing complex analysis plans; evaluating the impact of business decisions on clients, customers, and/or members; partnering with clients and staff to identify opportunities and methods to improve efficiencies with analysis; supporting and training end-users; and documenting processes and deliverables.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Core)

• Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management
• Attention to Detail
• Business Knowledge
• Communication
• Critical Thinking
• Cross-Group Collaboration
• Decision Making
• Dependability
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support
• Drives Results
• Facilitation Skills
• Health Care Industry
• Influencing Others
• Integrity
• Learning Agility
• Organizational Savvy
• Problem Solving
• Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall
• Teamwork
• Topic-Specific Communication

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Functional)

• Data Quality
• Health Care Coding
• Internal or External Publication
• Model Creation and Interpretation
• Procedure Manuals and Documentation
• Process Mapping
• Program Writing
• Business Planning
• Data Extraction
• Data Mining
• Data Visualization Tools
• Negotiation
• Project Management
• Relational Database Management
• Statistical Programming Language
• Vendor Management
• Written Communication

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum three (3) years experience statistical consulting.
• Minimum two (2) years medical or health analytics experience.
• Minimum five (5) years statistical modeling experience using SAS, R, or another advanced statistical package.
• Minimum three (3) years experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
• Masters degree in Biostatistics, Statistics, Public Health, Data Science, or related field and Minimum eight (8) years experience in data analytics or a directly related field. Additional equivalent work experience in a directly related field may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Social/Physical/Life Science, Business, or related field.
• Two (2) years regulatory experience.
• Three (3) years experience working with quality management and data profiling tools.
• Three (3) years experience working with statistical analysis software.
• Three (3) years experience working with artificial intelligence tools.
• Three (3) years programming experience.
• Three (3) years statistical modeling experience.
• One (1) year publications as an author in medical or scientific journals.
• Two (2) years health care experience.
• Three (3) years experience working with data extraction and manipulation language.
• Three (3) years experience working with Excel.
• Three (3) years experience working with data visualization tools.
• Three (3) years experience working in a matrixed organization.
• Three (3) years experience working with SAS.
• Three (3) years experience working with Open Source Tools (e g , R, Python).