Medical Statistician / Real-World Data Scientist

Join the Centre of Excellence for Retrospective Studies in Leeds, UK as a Medical Statistician / Real-World Data Scientist. Help us deliver high‑quality scientific research to our clients in the global pharmaceutical and healthcare industries in this career enhancing job.

Our goal, and hopefully your career goal, is to contribute to the body of scientific evidence that allows medical practitioners to treat patients in the most effective way, and health systems to include as many patients as possible. We use data, collected for clinical (and other) purposes to answer research questions such as "which treatment works best in the real world, beyond the clinical trial setting?" Our fast paced and supportive environment attracts individuals who care deeply about the quality, timeliness and subsequent impact of their work; who thrive when exposed to the scale and variety of scientific challenges we face.

This Medical Statistician / Real-World Data Scientist job will offer you a unique opportunity to work on a novel, large, clinically rich data set in oncology working as a key member of a small, dedicated team. This opportunity arises as a consequence of a partnership between IMS and the healthcare data owners: the context for your work will be the cross-over between the IMS RWI team, the oncology centre and the applications of RWD for life sciences clients.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development of study protocols, statistical analysis plans (SAPs), programming specification and output documents
• Clean and prepare extracts from a large-sized real-world healthcare database
• Conduct statistical analysis on real-world data as specified in the SAP
• Write-up and present results of statistical analysis
• Assist in the preparation of abstracts, manuscripts and/or presentations to conferences
• Contribute to business development activities including proposal development
• Contribute to improving operational efficiencies of workflows, including writing of internal guidance documents (e.g., SOPs and quality management documents)

Requirements

• MSc, PhD or equivalent in Statistics, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Data Science, Mathematics with Stats, Computer Science or a closely related discipline
• Strong statistical programming skills in R
• Minimum 3 years experience designing and executing prospective or retrospective clinical database studies
• Proven experience working with large, individual-level clinical data sets
• Proven experience contributing to multiple projects with competing timelines
• Already possess the Right to Work in the UK
• Fluency in English (spoken and written)
• Commitment to working collaboratively and effectively with people of other disciplines
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualities

• Experience working with Oncology data a very big plus
• Prior experience working in a consultancy, CRO or other service sector in the healthcare industry
• Publications in peer reviewed journals and/or abstracts in scientific conferences

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