As a Sr. Statistical Programmer you will be joining the world’s largest & most comprehensive clinical research organisation, powered by healthcare intelligence.
What you will be doing:
- Developing and validating SAS programs for statistical analysis and reporting of clinical trial data.
- Collaborating with biostatisticians to define analysis plans and statistical methods to be applied to clinical data.
- Performing quality control checks on statistical outputs and ensuring accuracy and consistency in reporting.
- Assisting in the preparation of statistical reports, presentations, and publications for regulatory submissions.
- Contributing to process improvements by identifying efficiencies in programming practices and methodologies.
You are:
- Graduate degree in a relevant field (e.g., Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Health Economics, or related disciplines), with 3+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, or biotech industry.
- Strong programming skills (SAS or R, and SQL): proficiency in writing, optimizing, and troubleshooting complex queries and statistical code for large datasets.
- Experience with Real-World Evidence (RWE) analysis, particularly in observational and retrospective studies. Typical projects may involve disease burden, healthcare cost and resource utilization, comparative effectiveness, treatment outcome studies, and other related analyses.
- Hands-on experience with claims data, particularly from Optum, Marketscan, or similar large healthcare databases: Candidates should be comfortable with navigating and analyzing administrative claims datasets, including identifying relevant variables, understanding healthcare coding (ICD, CPT, etc.), and managing large-scale data extractions.
- Excellent communication skills
What ICON can offer you:
Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.
In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.
Our benefits examples include:
- Various annual leave entitlements
- A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs
- Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximise savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead
- Global Employee Assistance Programme, TELUS Health, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialised professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being
- Life assurance
- Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidised travel passes, health assessments, among others
Visit our careers website to read more about the benefits of working at ICON: https://careers.iconplc.com/benefits
At ICON, diversity, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative which helps us better serve our people, patients, customers, and our communities. We're proud of our diverse workforce and the work we’ve done to become a more inclusive organisation. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know through the form below.
https://careers.iconplc.com/reasonable-accommodations
Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.
