Associate Research Scientist

Reimagine the infrastructure of cancer care within a community that values integrity, inspires growth, and is uniquely positioned to create a more modern, connected oncology ecosystem.

We're looking for an Associate Research Scientist to help us accomplish our mission to improve lives by learning from the experience of every cancer patient. Are you ready to be the next changemaker in cancer care?

What You'll Do

In this role, you will work as a member of the Research Sciences (RS) department, primarily supporting our work in the UK, Germany, and Japan. This team provides customized real-world data and real-world evidence solutions to address the most important research questions across clinical development, market access, and commercial use cases for our life sciences partners.

In this role, you will:

• Work closely with study leads to design client-facing real-world oncology studies with high quality study protocols and statistical analysis plans

• Accurately translate analytic specifications from a statistical analysis plan into R code to create analytic datasets, generate descriptive and inferential statistics, and visualizations, etc, in consultation with the study principal investigator.

• Build subject matter expertise and discuss capabilities of a variety of different Flatiron data modalities, including EHR-derived real-world data, clinico-genomics data, and claims data

• Assist in interpretation and presentation of study findings through study reports and presentations to clients

• Contribute to discussions with cross-functional stakeholders, including oncologists and project managers, to execute and deliver on projects in an accurate, effective, and timely manner

• Continue to develop your understanding of epidemiological and statistical approaches for analyzing observational real-world data and deepen your understanding of cancer biology, therapies, and outcomes across multiple major tumor types

Who You Are

You're a kind, passionate and collaborative problem-solver who values the opportunity to think beyond the way things are. In addition, you're an analytical thinker and excellent communicator with experience or interest in supporting design and execution of real-world studies that support use cases across the Oncology product development life cycle. You are excited by the prospect of rolling up your sleeves to tackle meaningful problems each and every day.

• You hold a Master's degree in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Health Policy (or closely related field) with 2 - 3 years of relevant experience or a Bachelor's degree in one of those fields with 4-5 years

• You're proficient at coding in R

• You have experience working in a pharmaceutical/HEOR consulting environment

• You have experience with observational datasets (e.g., registries, healthcare claims, or electronic health records)

• You have strong communication skills, with experience contributing to study documentation

• You have effective organizational, time-management, and prioritization and skills necessary to contribute to multiple high-visibility projects in a timely fashion

• You have an agile mindset and adapt quickly to changes in project direction

• You are able to quickly learn and apply new information, skills and procedures

• You are passionate about our mission to improve healthcare through technology

Extra credit

• You have oncology experience

Where you'll work

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and 3 office days set by you and your team. For more information on our approach to hybrid work, please visit the how we work website.

Life at Flatiron

At Flatiron Health, we offer a full range of benefits to support you and your loved ones so you can focus your working hours on improving cancer care and accelerating cancer research, and your non-working hours on everything else life has to offer:

• Work/life autonomy via flexible work hours and flexible paid time off

• Comprehensive compensation package

• 401(k) contribution to help you reach your retirement planning goals

• Financial health resources including 1:1 financial advice

• Mental well-being tools and services

• Parental benefits and policies including family-building care and generous leave

• Path to parenthood programs supporting fertility, adoption and surrogacy

• Travel support for safe healthcare services

In addition to our robust benefit offerings, visit our Life at Flatiron page to learn how we support continuous learning and celebrate Diversity in the workplace.