# Statistical Scientist

**Company**: ICON
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

ICON is seeking a Statistical Scientist to join the Biostatistics & Medical Writing (BMW) Real World Evidence team.

This role involves working on diverse Real World Evidence projects, supporting study design, statistical analysis, programming, reporting, and scientific communication activities.

Responsibilities:

- Contribute to project conception and study design activities.

- Support proposal development for full-service and statistics-only projects.

- Perform statistical analyses using SAS and R.

- Develop and maintain SAS programs for data manipulation, analysis, and reporting.

- Create variables, perform data merges, and prepare analytical datasets.

- Apply statistical procedures to support project objectives.

- Use advanced SAS techniques such as repeated measures, survival analysis, SAS/Graph, or advanced macros.

- Develop outputs including tables, graphs, and project deliverables.

- Support scientific communication activities including conference presentations and publications.

- Participate in professional activities and technical conferences.

- Attend weekly BMW meetings and contribute to departmental initiatives.

- Support Directors and members of the Executive Team with BMW initiatives.

- Contribute to budgeting and scope development activities.

- Adhere to departmental SOPs and quality standards.

- Undertake other reasonably related duties as required.

- Travel domestically and internationally as needed (approximately 5%).

Requirements:

- Degree in Statistics, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Health Economics, Mathematics, Public Health, or a related quantitative discipline.

- Experience working with statistical analyses and healthcare or research data.

- Strong SAS programming skills.

- Experience using advanced SAS techniques.

- Proficiency in R programming.

- Ability to develop statistical outputs, tables, and graphs.

- Strong analytical, organisational, and problem-solving skills.

- Effective written and verbal communication skills.

- Ability to work collaboratively within a team environment.

Benefits:

- Competitive base salary and performance-related incentives.

- Health and wellbeing programmes including medical, dental, and vision coverage.

- Retirement and pension plans.

- Life assurance and disability coverage.

- Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources.

- Learning and development opportunities.

## Skills

### Required
- SAS
- R
- Statistics
- Biostatistics
- Epidemiology
- Health Economics
- Mathematics
- Public Health

### Nice to have
- Real World Evidence
- healthcare research
- conference presentations
- publications
- scientific communications

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