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From: Hilary Pavlidis <hpavlidisdiamondv.com> 
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Subject: FW: Applied Statistician/Biostatistician Job at Diamond V
       (Cargill)
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 09:26:00 -0600

Hello All.

Diamond V, a division of Cargill, is looking for a talented individual to
join the research and technical service team in Cedar Rapids, IA in the
role of Applied Statistician/Biostatistician.

Please see the attached job description. The link for applying is:
https://cargill.taleo.net/...b=CED01134

For more information about Diamond V please visit our website at:
http://www.diamondv.com/

Thanks!

Hilary

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Applied Statistician-CED01134 Cargill provides food, agriculture, financial
and industrial products and services to the world. Together with farmers,
customers, governments and communities, we help people thrive by applying our
insights and over 150 years of experience. We have 160,000 employees in 70
countries who are committed to feeding the world in a responsible way,
reducing environmental impact and improving the communities where we live and
work.

Description

The Applied Statistician/Biostatistician will be responsible for statistical
aspects of study design and analysis of data from research/field trials
conducted. This includes responsibility for design of studies, calculating
sample size and power, writing/critiquing statistical portions of a protocol
and model plan, analysis and interpretation of data, and preparation of
relevant sections of marketing/regulatory reports and manuscripts. Experience
in statistical analyses of omics data (e.g. microbiome, metabolome) and their
integration with high-dimensional data is preferred. This position will
interact with the CHT research group and have responsibility for multispecies
and in vitro design and analysis. Further, the position will generate
technical summaries and reports for studies conducted.

70% Data Analysis and Trial Design:

• Responsible to develop and review protocols and analyze data.
• Develop protocols including study design, sample size estimation,
  randomization and statistical analyses plan for assigned studies.
• Allocate animals to experimental trial design. Under the guidance of the
  Lead Scientist complete the appropriate statistical analysis of stored data
  and deliver a coherent statistical summary for each project.
• Update/create a working statistical analysis for each data set; provide
  interim and final statistical outputs and summary tables and graphs using
  requested software.
• Draw statistical inferences from omics data (e.g. microbiome, metabolome).
• Integrate omics data with high-dimensional data via multivariate
  statistical approaches, dimension reduction methods, data modelization,
  etc.
• Knowledge and experience in SAS, R and Bioconductor.
• Expand the use of SAS capabilities to provide new or improved statistical
  analyses, outputs and methods.
• Develop functional working relationships with project Principal
  Investigators.
• Explore new ways of using popular statistical software including but not
  limited to SAS, JMP, Excel, MS Access and R to add value to other areas of
  CHT.
• Maintain data collection and summarization capability for planned
  experiments that ensures data is efficiently presented for statistical
  analysis and maintained data records are coherent, accurate and reliable.
• Create and verify data files containing the definitive set of data for
  projects.
• Maintain record of residual trial variance and work with unit managers and
  technicians to continuously improve this.
• Involvement on other projects especially across species as assigned or
  needed.
• Ensure that data storage and summarization is consistent with standards
  deployed across CHT.
• Prepare, format, clean and prepare data above for subsequent use by other
  programs and members of Global Data and Stats Team

25% Technical Writing:

• Build network and process for CHT to connect with leading academics,
  institutes and companies which provide the technical solutions and/or
  capabilities to execute the CHT strategy.
• Identify areas where efficiency opportunities exist for improved research
  process, especially in the area of data preparation and statistical
  analysis.
• Prepare Materials and Methods, Analysis, and Results section in the trial
  reports
• Build expertise and knowledge about strategic partners and become the
  in-house expert on partner organizations;
• Maintain regular, relevant, organized, clear and timely communication
  between all internal and external stakeholders;

5% Personal Development:

• Collaborate with business and commercial leadership to ensure the health
  research investment portfolio is relevant and compelling;
• Monitor the field of research (e.g. omics, biometrical modeling, new
  techniques) and development to identify value drivers, value creation
  opportunities, and key risks associated with CHT corporate goals and growth
  strategy.
• Complete complex calculations with different interacting components to
  create derived analysis variables as needed for research projects. Develop
  new skills outside scope of work.
• Become a thought leader by representing Cargill in external forums,
  (universities, industry, strategic customers) along with strategic partner
  and industry expert relationships.

Qualifications

Required:

• Master’s Degree plus 3 or more years of experience, – Degree in
Statistics,
  or Relevant Science
• Track record of protocol review, statistical model building, analyzing, and
  interpreting data.
• Skilled use of software programs this includes but not limited to Microsoft
  Office, databases, and statistical packages. This includes the ability and
  willingness to learn new software skills.
• Advanced programming skills in SAS, Bioconductor and database function
• Problem solving, decision making, leadership, influence & communication
  skills. Able to manage multiple priorities.
• Must be available to travel at least 10% of time (industry meetings,
  customer visits, research visits, as needed).
• Proven ability to learn quickly and drive innovation

Preferred:

• 7 or more years of experience, - Analyzing trials with commercial relevance
• Experience in multi-omics high-dimensional data
• Technical writing experience with published results. Formal project
  management experience and/or training.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.

Job
 Research and Development

Primary Location
 US-IA-Cedar Rapids


 
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