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New Contract Opportunity!Biostatistician/SAS ProgrammerPharmaceutical CompanyConnecticutt6 month Contract The Statistician / SAS Programmer role is a dual role combining statistics and programming. The ideal candidate has practical experience in applying statistics to clinical research data and is strong in SAS programming. As a statistician, the role involves providing statistical input to protocols, writing statistical analysis plans and analyzing data. As a SAS Programmer, the role involves programming both efficacy and safety tables, listings and figures (TLFs).The Statistician / SAS Programmer supports ad-hoc analyses used for publications, posters and other needs. The position is approximately 20% statistics and 80% programming and directly reports to our Director of Biometrics and Project Management. Responsibilities:
· Reviews protocols and provides input to the statistical section
· Develops statistical analysis plans including table shells
· Work with clinicians on the best ways to analyze data as well as ensuring the statistical methods are appropriate
· Provide statistical, programming and general support for Advisory Committee meetings
· Processes clinical data for analysis of clinical trials for Phase 1-4 in the Infectious Disease Therapeutic Area
· Creates and reviews programming plans and specifications for datasets and TLFs
· Programs study report TLFs as well as ad-hoc requests for publications, posters and other needs
· QC summary TLFs for in-house analyses of study data or publications using SAS standard coding practices
· Develops tools to improve programming efficiency or quality
· Follows good programming practices and adequately documents programs while being compliant with ICH-GCG guidelines and company SOPs · Collaborates with the Director to ensure continuous improvement and milestones are met and supports requests from other departments within the companyQualifications:
· A minimum of a master's degree in Statistics or Biostatistics is required
· A minimum of 5 years hands on career experience in statistics and with SAS in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry
· Able to determine the appropriate statistical methods to use for a variety of data situations
· Excellent knowledge of SAS programming
· Able to program using a variety of SAS Statistical Procedures
· Well versed with CDISC conventions, i.e., SDTM and ADaM models
· Strong understanding of clinical trial data and extremely hands on in data manipulations, analysis and reporting · Capable of understanding the needs of the Clinician, translating those needs into a logical plan for data analysis and meeting those needs through programming
Please send me an updated resume ASAP. REFERRALS WELCOME.
Thanks
Paul Dai
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