(Canada) Senior Research Scientist, Life Sciences

Key Responsibilities

• Design, direct, and implement research studies: Define research objectives, formulate hypotheses, and select experimental designs, throughout the entire research project, from discovery to delivery. For each project, develop all aspects of methodology, including but not limited to approach, type, stages, means, structure, data, analysis, criteria, evaluation and conclusion
• Collaboration: Develop and maintain partnerships with other scientists within and outside the organization. Work with Sales and Customer Success to construct and support statements of work pertaining to research project
• Publishing: Contribute to the scientific community by publishing research findings in journals and presenting at conferences.
• Writing and presenting: Prepare research proposals, project reports, and present findings to peers and management.
• Data collection and analysis: Use specialized software and statistical techniques to interpret research data.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in health services research, bioinformatics, population health, or a similar field of quantitative research.
• 3 years of experience in a related field.
• Demonstrated experience in authoring peer-review publications and white papers
• Strong ability for compiling research requirements to drive downstream activities and teams
• Demonstrated application of advanced analytic skills in at least two areas such as analytic discovery, descriptive statistics, forecasting, multivariate modeling, experimental design, statistical inference, matching, machine learning, or predictive models.
• Experience in writing grant proposals
• Excelled verbal, written and presentation skills
• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to collaborate and work well in a team environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD
• 7+ years in a related field
• Experience in the pharmaceutical industry
• Primary or principal author
• Publications in the pharmaceutical or Life Sciences industry