Biostatistician - Remote

Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions Office Job Description At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future. Discover Impactful Work: The Biostatistician may act as a lead statistician with mentorship from senior staff to deliver the project statistician tasks/responsibilities, including analysis database creation, statistical analyses, and creation of formatted statistical analysis tables and summaries. A Day in the Life: Serve as lead statistician on projects with supervision. The major responsibility is to support the routine operation of vaccine and biologics assays. Provide statistical support to experimental design, data analysis, assay validation, scientific research and publication, and assay development. Prepare and review reports and protocols. Contribute to the statistical methods section and verify for completeness and consistency. Create SAS programs, graphs, and tables to perform and interpret analyses. Participate in internal meetings. Interact with multiple departments including data management, labs, and IT. Analyze Quality Control data to identify trends or anomalies. Education Master's degree in statistics, biostatistics, mathematics or related field. Experience Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 1+ years’). Solid SAS programming experience is preferred. Experience working within a lab or clinical trials is preferred. Knowledge, Skills, Abilities Microsoft Office skills, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint SAS programming skills R programming skills JMP skills Ability to promote collaboration in a multi-disciplinary team setting Good understanding of basic statistical methodology Ability to interact with lab scientists, curious about underlying biology hypothesis, assay technologies, and limitations (both in biology and assay technology). Ability to ask scientific (rather than just statistical) questions so that the focus is on 'what is the right question' rather than on 'what is a better statistical method for a given question' Knowledge of clinical trials structure Excellent written and verbal communications skills Good organizational skills with the ability to adapt and adjust to changing priorities Positive demeanor and the ability to work well with others Ability to solve problems logically Ability to multi-task Work Environment Thermo Fisher Scientific values the health and well-being of our employees. We support and encourage individuals to create a healthy and balanced environment where they can thrive. Below is listed the working environment/requirements for this role: Work is performed in an office environment with exposure to electrical office equipment. Frequently stationary for 6-8 hours per day. Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists. Frequent mobility required. Occasional crouching, stooping, bending and twisting of upper body and neck. Light to moderate lifting and carrying (or otherwise moves) objects including luggage and laptop computer with a maximum lift of 15-20 lbs. Our 4i Values: Integrity – Innovation – Intensity – Involvement If you resonate with our 4i values above, and ultimately wish to accelerate the delivery of safe and effective therapeutics for some of the world’s most urgent health needs, submit your application – we’d love to hear from you! Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. 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