Senior Research Statistician

highmarkhealth; Pennsylvania; Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel 0-25%

Job summary

Highmark Health is seeking a Lead Statistician to guide scholarly research using claims and public data. You will clean, transform, and analyze data across multiple projects and serve as the main statistician liaison to the PI team for biostatistics-related activities.

The role involves designing studies, developing code templates, and contributing to manuscript preparation for peer-reviewed journals. Strong communication with physicians and business leaders is essential.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in analytics, health services research, epidemiology, or biostatistics with 3 years of Statistical Analysis experience
• Bachelor's degree in analytics, health services research, epidemiology, or biostatistics with 6 years of Statistical Analysis experience
• 3 years in Statistical Analysis

Responsibilities

• Writes and reviews SAPs and analysis specifications.
• Conducts QA of project deliverables to ensure alignment with SAP.
• Presents analyses to internal/external stakeholders.
• Prepares manuscripts for publication.
• Mentors junior statisticians.

Skills

Advanced SAS/R/Stata

Statistical design & analysis

Communication skills

Team mentorship

Education

Master's degree in analytics/biostatistics

Bachelor's degree with 6+ years in stats

3 years in Statistical Analysis

Job description

Company : Highmark Health Job Description

JOB SUMMARY

This position is the lead statistician for a team focused on supporting scholarly research primarily using administrative (e.g., healthcare claims, medical records) and public data sources. This position involves handling data cleaning, transformation, and analysis for multiple projects at once with any level of complexity and will serve as the primary contact with the Primary Investigator (PI) team for all biostatistics-related activities and communications on assigned projects. The latter includes, but is not limited to, preparation of results and all associated materials for manuscripts to be submitted to peer-reviewed journals. This position involves engagement with physicians, healthcare business leaders, and others who have varied levels of background in research methods and/or statistics; as such, the ability to clearly translate complex design, data, and analytic concepts is critical in this role.

Beyond team operations, the senior research statistician also serves as an enterprise and team resource for complex statistical questions, study design considerations, and protocol development. The statistician will also be expected to help contribute to the team's development of research and analytic resources (e.g., identification and organization of relevant methodology papers; development of code templates and scripts).

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Writes and reviews statistical analysis plans (SAPs) based on the protocol, including development of well-presented mock-up displays for tables, listings, and figures. Creates or reviews programming specifications for analysis datasets, tables, listings, figures, and presentations.
• Conducts and participates in review and quality control of project deliverables, ensuring that output meets expectations and is consistent with analysis described in SAP.
• Presents analyses to internal and external stakeholders.
• Conducts literature reviews related to analyses. Prepares manuscripts for publication.
• Mentors and advises junior research statisticians.
• Discusses time estimates for completion of study-related activities with stakeholders and management and proactively communicates to management any difficulties with meeting these timelines. Monitors progress on study activities against agreed upon milestones and ensures the study timelines for project deliverables are met. Identifies out of scope tasks and escalates to management.
• Participates in project teams, interfacing as necessary with other departmental project team representatives.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

Required

• Master's degree in analytics, health services research, epidemiology, or biostatistics with 3 years of Statistical Analysis - OR-
• Bachelor's degree in analytics, health services research, epidemiology, or biostatistics with 6 years of Statistical Analysis -OR
• 3 years in Statistical Analysis

Preferred

• Doctorate in analytics, health services research, epidemiology, statistics, or biostatistics
• Experience as lead and/or coauthor for published, peer-reviewed manuscripts
• Knowledge of and experience in causal inference approaches (e.g., propensity score matching, inverse probability weighting, DiD) for a variety of observational research designs, preferably demonstrated in scientific publications
• Experience analyzing large datasets based on health insurance claims and/or medical records data using statistical software
• Statistical consultative experience or working as a statistician on a multidisciplinary team(s)

LICENSES or CERTIFICATIONS

Required

None

Preferred

None

SKILLS

• Advanced knowledge of SAS, R, or Stata
• Builds strong relationship with peers and cross-functional collaborators to achieve high performance
• Ability to apply knowledge of advanced statistical design, analysis, and programming techniques utilized in clinical research and to effectively communicate statistical concepts
• High degree of technical competence and effective communication skills, both oral and written

Language (Other than English):

None

Travel Requirement:

0%-25%

PHYSICAL, MENTAL DEMANDS and WORKING CONDITIONS

Position Type Office-based

Teaches / trains others regularly Frequently

Travel regularly from the office to various work sites or from site-to-site Occasionally

Works primarily out-of-the office selling products/services (sales employees) Never

Physical work site required No

• Lifting: up to 10 pounds Constantly
• Lifting: 10 to 25 pounds Occasionally
• Lifting: 25 to 50 pounds Occasionally

Disclaimer: The job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and essential duties and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this job title. It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to do this job.

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