Clinical Application Specialist

Location: Remote

Contract Length: 12 months

Pay Rate: $40-47/hr

Clinical Application Specialist

Top skills/requirements:

• MPH or MS degree in Epidemiology, or related field. Ph.D. is preferred.
• 4-5 years of epidemiology and/or public health experience with a Master degree or 1-2 years of experience with a Ph.D. degree. Pharmaceutical industry experience is preferred.
• Proficient with SAS, SQL, R, or related statistical software or other data analysis tools for data analysis, modeling, and visualization.
• Familiar with real-world data (e.g. health insurance claims, EMRs) concepts and structures. Extensive experience in manipulating and analyzing these databases is required.
• Knowledge and experience in different therapeutic areas. Neuroscience, immunology, or oncology experience is preferred.

The Contractor, Epidemiology Data Analytics is accountable to a real-world data and analytics leader within the Global Epidemiology function in PPS.

Major responsibilities include:

• Developing data/statistical analysis plans;
• Executing data analysis with minimal technical oversight
• Preparing relevant tables and figures
• Understanding strengths and weaknesses of specific databases
• Contributing to the interpretation of results
• Independently delivering data analysis results and findings to epidemiologists or cross-functional members as necessary.

The role provides expertise of real-world data and analysis methods within PPS. This person should be able to do comprehensive literature reviews for real-world data methodology and coding algorithms, and provide insights into real-world data, analysis tools, and epidemiology study concepts and protocols/proposals.

Responsibilities:

• Understand general to advanced epidemiology research techniques and apply appropriate research methods to answer questions relating to drug safety
• Be aware of and familiar with public and private resources and databases relevant to epidemiology for use in data analysis
• Independently manage data/statistical analysis plan and analyze specific epidemiology databases to prepare relevant tables and figures. Clearly communicate the results and help interpret findings to epidemiologists and cross-functional members as needed
• Contribute to the design of observational studies, including registries, providing critical appraisal of observational study protocols through participation in inter-departmental and cross-functional committees as needed
• Be able to convert sales data to exposure data, overall and stratified by key factors, e.g. age groups, gender, indications by leveraging with real-world data
• Provide epidemiology data to core safety and regulatory documents including, but not limited to, RMPs, PSURs, and Briefing Books
• Be proficient with analysis tools, e.g. SAS, SQL, R, Aetion, for data analysis, modeling, and visualization
• Do comprehensive literature review for analytics methodology and coding algorithms related to real-world data.
• Generate tables, listings, and graphs for compound projects.
• Responsible for the validation and quality assurance of any output produced.
• Generate and review validated table, listings, and graph output meeting the needs of Clinical Projects.

Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.