Senior Research Scientist, Life Sciences

Summary

Join PointClickCare as a Senior Research Scientist, Life Sciences and lead high-level scientific research to develop new products and technologies or expand scientific knowledge. This remote position, based in the US or Canada, involves collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, focusing on publications and occasional travel. The role requires designing and implementing research studies, collaborating with other scientists and sales teams, publishing findings, preparing reports, and analyzing data. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in life sciences and long-term post-acute care. This is a newly created position.

Requirements

• 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

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

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

Benefits

• $134,000 - $144,000 a year
• + bonus
• + benefits