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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Urgent Requirement: SAS Analyst

Hi,

I have following urgent requirement.

Please send resume for the position along with contact details

Requirement:

We need SAS Analyst in the Medical Devices Domain.

Work location: - Minneapolis, MN

Duration: Long term

Mandatory skills:

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POSITION DESCRIPTION:

Provide statistical analysis and trending of data originating from product comment reports, returned product analysis, spontaneous reports, registries, post approval studies, and of Neuro products and therapies. Assist in monitoring of product performance trends from a risk management perspective, and collaborate with business partners to develop solutions to reduce current and future risk and improve long-term safety.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Develop process and define requirements for systems and tools (e.g. complaint handling codes) to perform simple and complex analysis of product and clinical performance data for current and future products and therapies.

* Maintain competency in data analysis techniques and tools, and keep the business informed of emerging standards and best practices for monitoring of product safety data.

* Integrate data source(s), using appropriate statistical methodology and data collection strategies, in order to provide ongoing monitoring relative to developed acceptance criteria.

* Apply technical knowledge to critically interpret data analysis results, analyzing trends and changes in performance, and correlation to product or clinical practice changes.

* Initiate proactive performance trend reports, acceptance criteria and safety thresholds.

* Create standardized and custom analysis and reports to communicate overall performance results to business partners, including Quality, Reliability, Clinical and Legal.

* Maintain competency in technical and clinical use of products and clinical environment to provide context for analysis of performance outcomes.

* Choose appropriate software solution for trending and performance reports.

* Collaborate in the development of new systems where applicable.

* Ensure personal understanding of all quality policy/system items that are personally applicable. Follow all work/quality procedures to ensure quality system compliance and high quality work.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

* Bachelor's Degree and 4 years of experience OR Graduate Degree in Statistics and 2 years of experience.

* High level of computer proficiency.

* High proficiency with statistical software (SAS, R, Minitab, jmp)

SAS base certification a plus.

* Strong data manipulation skills including: SQL generation and the ability to combine query results from multiple sources for analysis (using SAS, R, Business Objects and working with Oracle and SQL Server databases).

Desired skills:

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DESIRED/PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* *3-5 years' experience in device or drug industry complaint handling, analysis or other safety clinical data, or customer service/technical evaluation analysis.

* Strong communication skills, oral and written.

* Experience with one or more programming languages/platforms:

-net development environment

-java development tools

-Matlab

-Visual Basic for Applications

* Spreadsheet modeling skills

* Strong analytical skills including proficiency with parametric and non-parametric actuarial survival, bootstrap / Monte Carlo methods, ANOVA / Designed Experiments, SPC / Changepoint Analysis.

Ashish Gupta.

Tel: -( 832) 232-3522