Principal statistical scientist job description

General Mills is seeking a statistical consultant to join the Statistics and Data Sciences team within the Innovation, Technology, and Quality (ITQ) function. The ITQ function is the center of technical innovation, product development, and quality activities for the company. You will be part of a successful, multi-talented, analytics team that is blending statistics, mathematics, modeling, and cloud computing to solve problems within a data-rich science and engineering environment.

In this role, you will be a key player on business teams that are using technical, consumer, and business data to develop and launch successful food products across our $18 billion dollar portfolio of brands. This is a unique opportunity to engage in product innovation through ideation, development, commercialization, and into the market. Working with subject matter experts from across ITQ, you will lead the application of study design, data collection, and data analysis to make decisions and take actions that drive business results.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES


Drive collaborations on a wide range of problems, using data from consumer research, scientific experimentation, manufacturing operations, to ecommerce and social media platforms Proactively lead the development of business strategies for leveraging analytics to improve decision making and advance key short- and long-term company priorities Guide teams in: translating business goals to analytics objectives; designing effective studies and data collection; analyzing and interpreting data; and communicating actionable insights and recommendations that directly influence business decisions Manage a portfolio of business consulting projects, and partner with other team members to create results, communications, and tools to meet the project deliverables Design programs to educate ITQ scientists and engineers in the use of analytics Partner with statistics and data science teams in other company functions to share standards and best practices and to collaborate on shared objectives and areas of common interest



MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS


Master's degree in Statistics, Biostatistics, Computer Science, or related quantitative field; or MS in the sciences, with education in statistics or data science 5+ years of experience as a statistics/analytics consultant, including work on study design and analytics in a science or technology organization Demonstrated ability to solve business and technical problems. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate and build relationships in-person and virtually Expert in the use of statistical software, and proficient in an analytics programming language (e.g., R)



PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS


Past assignments within an R&D or Science organization, and experience with food industry applications. Familiarity with regulatory statistics is a plus Experience working within a global team Some experience with SQL scripting languages and relational databases


COMPANY OVERVIEW


We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best - bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what's next.

Role Purpose

The purpose of this role is to design, test and maintain software programs for operating systems or applications which needs to be deployed at a client end and ensure its meet 100% quality assurance parameters

* Instrumental in understanding the requirements and design of the product/ software
* Develop software solutions by studying information needs, studying systems flow, data usage and work processes
* Investigating problem areas followed by the software development life cycle
* Facilitate root cause analysis of the system issues and problem statement
* Identify ideas to improve system performance and impact availability
* Analyze client requirements and convert requirements to feasible design
* Collaborate with functional teams or systems analysts who carryout the detailed investigation into software requirements
* Conferring with project managers to obtain information on software capabilities

* Perform coding and ensure optimal software/ module development
* Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, software development and proposed software
* Develop and automate processes for software validation by setting up and designing test cases/scenarios/usage cases, and executing these cases
* Modifying software to fix errors, adapt it to new hardware, improve its performance, or upgrade interfaces.
* Analyzing information to recommend and plan the installation of new systems or modifications of an existing system
* Ensuring that code is error free or has no bugs and test failure
* Preparing reports on programming project specifications, activities and status
* Ensure all the codes are raised as per the norm defined for project / program / account with clear description and replication patterns
* Compile timely, comprehensive and accurate documentation and reports as requested
* Coordinating with the team on daily project status and progress and documenting it
* Providing feedback on usability and serviceability, trace the result to quality risk and report it to concerned stakeholders

* Status Reporting and Customer Focus on an ongoing basis with respect to project and its execution
* Capturing all the requirements and clarifications from the client for better quality work
* Taking feedback on the regular basis to ensure smooth and on time delivery
* Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members.
* Consulting with engineering staff to evaluate software-hardware interfaces and develop specifications and performance requirements
* Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code
* Documenting very necessary details and reports in a formal way for proper understanding of software from client proposal to implementation
* Ensure good quality of interaction with customer w.r.t. e-mailcontent, fault report tracking, voice calls, business etiquette etc
* Timely Response to customer requests and no instances of complaints either internally or externally.

• Quantitative methodologies: demonstrates thorough understanding of, or aptitude to learn, quantitative methods used in drug development: 1) statistical modeling, (mixed-effects models, survival models, Bayesian methods)
• Software: demonstrates thorough experience coding in formal and/or modeling software platforms.
• Communication: demonstrates ability to effectively present quantitative results, development plans, and strategies to technical and non-technical audiences in verbal form
• Writing: demonstrates ability to write clinical pharmacology results, interpretations (including impact) and conclusions for reports and regulatory documents that are clear and concise.
• Time Management: Ability to meet target deadlines and manage time effectively, balanced across multiple projects.
• Networking and Alliance Building: good interpersonal skills that ensure teamwork and productive interactions among diverse personalities/areas of expertise; ability to garner support and coordinate resources in support of consortia objectives.
• Innovation: constantly looking for new approaches and able to devise/apply new techniques in quantitative medicine, clinical pharmacology and modeling and simulation.
• Courage with Decisiveness to Act: bias towards action to achieve goals; excitement, enthusiasm and a sense of urgency with regard to the development of drug development tools.
• Values: Practice highest level of integrity and core value system consistent with C-Path's core values.
• Clinical Pharmacology: knowledge of principles of PK, PK-PD, phase I-III studies of drug development, biopharmaceutics, pathophysiology and therapeutics is desirable.
• Regulatory Knowledge : understanding of appropriate FDA, EMA and ICH guidelines in the design of analysis plans is desirable.

Computer Skills:

• Proficient use of Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.
• Proficient in programming in at least one of the following: R/STAN [preferred], Python, NONMEM
• Additional expertise with other quantitative tools (e.g., SIMCYP, GastroPlus, Matlab, Phoenix [Winnonlin, NLME], Stan, BUGS) or programming languages (e.g., C++, Java, Perl) a plus

Physical Demands:

• Regularly required to sit for long periods of time, and occasionally stand and walk about the facility.
• Regularly uses hands to operate computer equipment and other office equipment.
• Close vision required for computer usage.
• Occasionally required to stoop, kneel, and lift up to 25 pounds.
• Travel on occasion for out-of-town meetings (~ 10%).

In accordance with the Executive Order on Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors, C-Path has adopted a policy to comply with this requirement all C-Path employees must vaccinated to safeguard the health of our employees and their families; our customers and visitors; and the community at large from COVID-19.

Reasonable Accommodation:

Newly hired employees in need of an exemption from this policy due to a medical reason or because of a sincerely held religious belief must submit a completed request for accommodation form to the human resources department to begin the interactive accommodation process as soon as possible. Accommodations will be granted where they do not cause C-Path undue hardship or pose a direct threat to the health and safety of others. Please direct any questions regarding this policy to the human resources department.

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