Staff Engineer/Statistician

Job description

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 103,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

We are recruiting for a Staff Engineer/ Statistician to join our team. Assist on the design, analysis, interpretation and documentation of statistical results. Provide statistical consultation to technical staff, management, and regulatory agencies. Responsible for the development of statistical procedures to ensure consistency and use of most adequate statistical techniques division wide. Develop statistical material and provide training to statisticians and non-statisticians.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for design and statistical methodology selection, sample size justification, randomization order and protocol acceptance criteria.

Reports - Assist project team on data interpretation, inferences and documentation of statistical results.

• Consultation:  Assist peers to develop efficient designs, protocols and reports per agreed timelines.
• Presents statistical concepts and arguments to management, regulatory agencies and scientists.

• Training, Mentoring - Develop statistical modules and provide formal training to statisticians and non-statisticians.

Project Coordination and Regulatory Activities:

• Responsible for the accuracy and appropriateness of statistical inputs provided for regulatory submissions and development decisions.

• Effective communication with various levels of personnel is required regularly.  
• Work collaboratively with multiple stake holders to develop scientifically appropriate strategies.

• Effectively and persuasively presents statistical concepts and arguments to management, regulatory agencies, scientists and non-scientists.

Required Qualifications:
 

• BS in Statistics, engineering or related field with 9+ years, or MS with 7+ years, or PhD with 5+ years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and work.  
• Technical degree of technical competence and communicative ability, both oral and written.
• Competent in experimental designs, sampling plans, equivalence studies, confidence and reliability testing and statistical analysis for test method evaluation among others.
• Knowledge in appropriate statistical software such as JMP, Minitab or SAS. Business
• Comprehensive knowledge of business concepts, procedures, practices, unit functions and cross group dependency/relationships. Cognitive Skills
• Experience working with complex problems where analysis of situations and data requires in-depth evaluation of various factors.
• Ability to exercise judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Influence/Leadership
• Ability to interface with a variety of management levels on significant matters, often requiring the coordination across organizational units.
• Participates in the development of others by facilitating training and providing feedback and guidance. Could act as a mentor to less-experienced staff.
• Willing and capable of leading a team.
• Planning/Organization
• Plans and organize project assignments of modest variety and complexity.
• Ability to initiate and maintain schedule for projects and milestones.
• Supervision Received/Provided
• Work without appreciable direction.
• Seeks guidance as needed.

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