Statistician

LOCATION – Princeton, NJ

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Strategic Research Insights, Inc. is a custom market research and consulting company, catering to pharmaceutical, biotech, and healthcare sector. SRI is a young, dynamic company with a rapid growth rate. We are located close to Princeton University, in Princeton, NJ.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Statisticians work on pharmaceutical market research projects that involve advanced statistical models and techniques. Primary focus is on analyzing primary, secondary and Big Data with state-of-the-art data analysis tools to improve our understanding of treatment pathways and physician prescription decisions. A strong theoretical foundation in principles of statistics and an ability to utilize advanced statistical modeling techniques such as regression, discriminant analysis, and cluster analysis to answer the research questions is needed

Statisticians will have the followings tasks and proportion of time spent in different tasks

Use tabulation packages such as Wincross and statistical packages such as SPSS, SAS, Latent Gold and CART modeling software (Classification and Regression Trees)
Conduct data analysis using tools such as SAS, SPSS and WINCROSS with a number of different data sources such as Electronic Health Records, Anonymous Longitudinal Patient Data, Laboratory data, and survey research data
Analyze survey or secondary data to tease out insights and provide answers to clients’ business questions on patients’ treatment journey
Write statistical code to compile, concatenate, organize, recode, tabulate and output data from multiple types of structured and unstructured databases.
Use state-of-the-art analytic techniques to develop descriptive and predictive models of prescribing behavior
Understand various triggers in treatment journey and disease progression to identify optimal treatment outcomes by building complicated probability models
Create user friendly tools using MS Excel and Visual Basic that can simulate product and market scenarios
Run thousands of market simulations to enable smart business decisions
Set up frameworks for complex forecasting models and provide valuable, quantifiable insights about future performance of client companies’ pipeline and inline medications

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, or Mathematics or Econometrics or a related field or equivalent
Strong theoretical foundation in principles of statistics, multivariate statistical techniques and data mining concepts
Critical thinking, analytical mindset, and intellectual curiosity are essential
Attention to detail is required
Thorough expertise in MS Excel is required
Comfort with SPSS or SAS is strongly preferred
Willing to work in a consulting environment
High-energy individual, “can-do” attitude a must
Good communication skills are a plus

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Please include a plain-text, unformatted resume and a cover letter in your application to recruiter@srinsights.com

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.