Senior Scientist, Informatics & Biostatistics

Sr. Scientist, Informatics & Biostatistics-INF004093

Description

Merck is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and consumer health products, as well as animal health products. Today, we are building a new kind of healthcare company - one that is ready to help create a healthier future for all of us.

Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity and teamwork of people like you. To this end, we strive to create an environment of mutual respect, encouragement and teamwork. As part of our global team, you'll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.

The Informatics IT department partners with diverse business areas across Merck, as well as organizations from across the healthcare landscape, to co-create and enable informatics capabilities that transform our ability to discover, develop and deliver products that meet unmet patient needs. We are currently seeking outstanding candidates to join our global team of diverse informatics professionals, spanning biomedical and health informatics, engineering, knowledge management, computational biology and translational informatics.

The Sr. Scientist, Informatics & Analytics will work as a key member of internally and externally facing research teams, playing a central role in the design, execution, and analysis of observational healthcare studies. Interacting closely with internal and external partners, this individual will collect, curate, and analyze data from electronic medical records and other sources of real world health information.

The successful candidate will understand the complexities of and excel at working with observational health data. Analyses conducted by this individual will influence internal business decisions and may also support external peer-review publications. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues to make a difference in patient healthcare.

Responsibilities may include:

- Building analytic datasets, analysis of cross-sectional data, and longitudinal modeling (eg, survival analysis).
- Investigating quality/completeness of observational healthcare data from various sources and providing guidance on appropriate usage.
- Collaborating with interdisciplinary teams on the design/execution of research studies and targeted analyses.
- Evaluating existing and prospective technology solutions to assess value and suggest improvements.

Qualifications

Education:

- MA/MS/PhD in biostatistics, epidemiology, health/medical informatics, or equivalent experience required.

Required:

- Experience analyzing large observational healthcare datasets.
- Strong understanding of biostatistics, research methodology, and potential biases encountered when working with observational healthcare data.
- Proficiency using SAS statistical software.
- Experience developing statistical plans and contributing to design of research protocols.
- Ability to effectively communicate with individuals from diverse scientific and medical disciplines.
- Ability to work creatively and flexibly, both independently and as part of a multi-site and multi-organizational research team.
- Highly motivated and desires to constantly learn new skills, systems and processes.
- Strong organizational, interpersonal, and problem solving skills.
- Excellent written and oral communications skills.
- A desire to make a difference to patients and improve healthcare.

Preferred:

- Experience using medical ontologies (eg, ICD-9, CPT) to develop patient cohorts identification strategies.
- SAS programming certification(s).
- Familiarity with natural language processing (NLP).
- Machine learning expertise.

Our employees are the key to our company's success. We demonstrate our commitment to our employees by offering a competitive and valuable rewards program. Merck's benefits are designed to support the wide range of goals, needs and lifestyles of our employees, and many of the people that matter the most in their lives.

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Job: Informatics IT

Job Title: Sr. Scientist, Informatics IT

Primary Location: NA-US-CA-Palo Alto

Employee Status: Regular

Travel: Yes, 5 % of the Time

Number of Openings: 1