R sig jobs - May 2012 - Analytics Opening at Health Market Science, suburban Philadelphia, USA

Health Market Science (HMS), located in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania,
USA has an opening for a statistician.   The responsibilities of this
position include research and new product development, and building
client deliverables involving complex analytical methods.? The
position will leverage the candidates? skills in data analysis to
drive value.

Preferred educational background: ?MS with approx 3 yrs experience, or
BS with approx 5 yrs experience in statistics or similar
computational/quantitative science.
Client or vendor side experience in healthcare industry ? either in
pharma/med device sector, or in payer/provider space.
Familiarity with medical claims data or Rx data is a plus.

Desired technical skills:? one or more of:exploratory data analysis,
ability to work with and analyze very large datasets
machine learning/statistical analysis ? regression, predictive
modeling, clustering, classification, etc

Required tools:?statistical package like R/Splus/SAS,  SQL, experience
with Linux/Unix.

See full posting at
http://www.healthmarketscience.com/about/careers/analytics-lead