At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

In this exciting role as the statistical programmer, you will be responsible for providing experienced, comprehensive, and advanced technical expertise as part of the centralized Biostats and Clinical Intelligence (BCI) team in the Medtronic Clinical & Regulatory Solutions organization (MCRS). You will be developing and maintaining programs and process methodology to meet internal and external clients’ needs. You will be planning and leading the development of solutions to all statistical analysis programming needs, particularly complex studies such as Premarket Approval (PMAs) studies. Join a diverse team of innovators who bring their worldview, their unique backgrounds, and their individual life experiences to work every day. It’s no accident — we work hard to cultivate a workforce that reflects our patients and partners. We believe it’s the only way to drive healthcare forward and remain a global leader in medical technology and solutions. MCRS provides end-to-end clinical and scientific solutions for Medtronic including: • Clinical Operations: Study Administration, Data Solutions, Monitoring, Clinical Safety, Study Solutions • Evidence Generation: Surveillance Solutions (PACS), Scientific Solutions • Operational Excellence • Strategic Account Management • Operations Support and Analytics

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Designs, develops, evaluates and modifies computer programs to analyze and evaluate clinical data.

• Recognizes inconsistencies and initiates resolution of data problems. Implements data management plans designed to meet project and protocol deadlines, provides expertise in the design and development of clinical trials, protocols and case report forms.

• Plans and coordinates statistical programming for complex studies. May integrate databases from multiple studies or sources.

• Reviews Statistical Analysis Plans from the programming perspective.

• Assists in data cleaning process.

• Programs analysis database manipulations and transfers of data for internal and external clients.

• Programs, tests, documents, and validate statistical programs and tools in accordance with SP standards and validation procedures.

• Serves as SP support programmer representing Statistical Programming on the corporate team.

• May serve as SP Lead in the absence of Lead Programmer.

• Develops and maintains good communications and working relationships with teams and external clients. May interact with other SP team members and cross functional teams to negotiate timelines, responsibilities, and deliverables; may serve as Project Manager or technical liaison with other departments; may participate in relevant client presentations and proposal development.

• Assists in the development of training materials for department.

• Understands and complies with Standard Operating Procedures and Work Instructions.

• Assists in developing, revising, and maintaining Standard Operating Procedures and Work Instructions.

• Provides advanced technical expertise in conjunction with internal and external clients.

• Assists in collaboration with data management team in developing and implementing new technologies or software Independently brings project solutions to SP teams.

• May Oversee the work of outsourcing partners and vendors at study level Mentors junior programming in departmental procedures and developing technical and/or database expertise.

• Meets milestones as assigned and performs other duties as directed by SP management.

• Meets milestones as assigned and performs other duties as directed by SP management.

Must Have (Minimum Requirements):

To be considered for this role, the minimum requirements must be evident on your resume.

Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of data analysis/programming (SAS) experience or advanced degree and  0 years of experience

Certifications: SAS Base Programming is required.

Nice to Have (Preferred Qualifications):

• Master’s degree in Computer science, Statistics or related fields

• 3-5 years of SAS programming experience

• Experience programming ADaM and SDTM data

• Experience in PL/SQL, Unix scripting, Python and R programing

• Experience in statistical programming for clinical studies

• Experience at Medtronic or medical device/pharmaceutical/Biopharm industry

• Good understanding of the clinical trial research development process is preferred.

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Physical Job Requirements The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.  

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.  We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here    

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