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Principal Data Scientist

🔥 1 minute ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $141k - $234k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

📊 Data Scientist

Where this job comes from

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Premier Inc.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1996

🏥 Healthcare

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

💼 Consulting

Healthcare • Healthcare Insurance • Consulting

Premier Inc. is a leading healthcare improvement organization that focuses on revolutionizing the healthcare industry through innovative solutions. They offer a wide range of services including group purchasing, technology, consulting, advocacy, and solutions for supply chain, quality improvement, pharmacy, and population health. Premier Inc. leverages data analytics, applied sciences, and artificial intelligence to drive decisions and generate real-world outcomes. Their mission is to transform healthcare and maximize value-based care, aiming to improve quality, safety, and better manage costs in health systems. The company's collaborative approach and partnership with healthcare providers enable them to deliver measurable results and influence healthcare policies.

📋 Description

• Lead independent and collaborative research programs in biostatistics and health outcomes research • Partner with public health government agencies, hospitals and health systems, and academic institutions • Apply advanced statistical and epidemiologic methods to RWE datasets, including electronic health record, administrative billing, and post-adjudicated claims data • Design, conduct, and evaluate observational studies • Develop statistical analysis plans and research protocols • Translate study findings into products, services, and features supporting quality improvement, population health management, and policy • Serve as a subject matter expert in biostatistics and epidemiology across business domains • Generate and test hypotheses and interpret study results for clinical, operational, and policy audiences • Facilitate meetings with public health agencies, health system and hospital partners, academic collaborators, and internal teams • Analyze partner needs, design research approaches, and make recommendations • Translate research findings into product features and requirements • Generate peer-reviewed publications as first or lead author • Create patent submissions • Present innovative work publicly at conferences and symposiums • Provide statistical and research methodology advice, demonstrations, and presentations • Provide mentoring and training • Develop project estimates, research timelines, and work plans • Identify, develop, review, and evolve best practices, standards, and processes for rigorous, reproducible research • Review team member analyses and deliverables • Provide scientific leadership for large-scale implementation with product and engineering teams

🎯 Requirements

• 10 or more years of applicable experience • Doctorate required • Strong business/healthcare analytics, statistics, simulation and advanced mathematics, data search, and matching experience • Experience leading collaborative research with government, health system, and academic partners • Excellent writing and speaking skills • Technical proficiency in R (Tidyverse), Python, and SQL; data modeling • Considerable post-doctoral research experience leading observational studies in healthcare, public health, or epidemiology • Biostatistics, epidemiology, and health outcomes research experience • Strong knowledge of real-world evidence (RWE) datasets, including administrative and EHR data • Strong track record of applied statistics, including GLMs, GLMMs, GAMs, ZIPs, hypothesis testing, propensity score matching, and inverse probability weighting (IPW) • Experience developing statistical analysis plans and leading research projects • Proven track record publishing in high-impact peer-reviewed journals as first or lead author, with observational study designs such as cohort and cross-sectional studies • Experience submitting patent applications • Experience with customer engagement, collaboration, and conflict management • Experience teaching in a related domain in the university setting • Causal inference, including mediation analysis and structural equation modeling • Experience with Posit and Databricks • Ability to remain in a stationary position for prolonged periods • Ability to adapt, change priorities quickly, and meet deadlines • Attention to detail • Ability to operate computer programs and software • Ability to communicate effectively with audiences in person and electronically • Ability to work collaboratively in close quarters with peers and varying interruptions • Ability to make independent decisions

🏖️ Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance • 401k retirement program • Paid time off • Participation in Premier’s employee incentive plans • Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities • Perks and discounts • Access to on-site and online exercise classes

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