Biostatistician

Company Overview:

Headquartered in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, Artivion, Inc. is a medical device company focused on developing simple, elegant solutions that address cardiac and vascular surgeons' most difficult challenges in treating patients with aortic diseases. Artivion has over 1,400 employees worldwide with sales representation in over 100 countries. The Company has manufacturing facilities located in Atlanta, Georgia, Austin, Texas and Hechingen, Germany. Additionally, it has sales and distribution offices in various countries throughout Europe, Asia, and South America. For additional information about Artivion, visit our website, www.artivion.com.

Position Overview:

The Biostatistician will collaborate and guide research projects, providing statistical design input, data analysis support, and interpretation of results, while working closely with the clinical operations team to ensure the validity of studies and overseeing the data analysis to inform decision-making.

Position Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with clinical operations team to develop objectives, design sampling, randomization, and statistical analysis plans to achieve study objectives.
• Collaborate with data management team and clinical operations team to align statistical analysis plan with data collection procedures and forms.
• Design tables and statistical procedures for clinical studies.
• Validate internal Statical programming team or CRO's analysis datasets and TLF delivery.
• Perform coding support for multiple functions, including clinical data management and clinical operations.
• Maintain and modify in-house stats code to support CDM data query, CEC/DSMB meeting and annual report.
• Perform data analysis using a broad range of analytic methods.
• Assist in providing statistical expertise in the design of research projects focusing on fundamental issues including specification of hypotheses and basic study design.
• Assist the research team in the design of methods to collect information, including the design of questionnaires and other data collection instruments, following the study design developed for the research program.
• Participate in regularly scheduled meetings that require statistical input.
• Ability to explain data terms, analysis, and concepts to the clinical operations team.
• Perform other tasks and duties as assigned.
• Support multiple research projects simultaneously.

Qualifications:

Requirements for Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelors or Masters in Statistics/Biostatistics or equivalent quantitative discipline with 2-3 years of directly relevant experience.
• Strong programming skills are required.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills. Ability to work effectively with clinical managers, data managers and other statisticians.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in clinical statistics desirable.
• Experience with device product development or support.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize workload, and to work calmly under time constraints and tight deadlines.
• Self-motivated with strong work ethic.