Manager, Research and Development - BlueCross BlueShield Association (Chicago, IL)

The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) is a membership organization of independently owned insurance companies and is the strategic leader behind the Blue Cross and Blue Shield brand, one of the most recognized brands in America and the choice of over 100 Million Americans for their healthcare coverage. There are 39 Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) Plans across the country and internationally which depend on BCBSA's consulting and operational support, enabling them to move proactively to gain a competitive edge in their respective markets. The Manager of Research and Development applies experience in using quantitative research methodologies to produce high quality results. Provides project management and vendor oversight of sophisticated quantitative research modeling using administrative data (including claims and provider-submitted information) to inform program development and evaluate providers. Builds and maintains effective business relationships with BCBSA and BCBS Plan clients in a cross-functional, fast-paced environment. This individual will be looked to as a subject matter expert on health services research, analyzing health services research data using appropriate scientific standards.

Required Basic Qualifications:

• A minimum of five years experience working on health services research projects
• Broad experience in the healthcare industry
• A masters degree in the social sciences or statistics, or related field
• Strong project management skills, including experience managing research projects conducted by research vendors and academics, and internally leveraging administrative data and large data sources
• Strong training and experience developing quasi-experimental designs including nonequivalent control group and time series designs
• Strong training and experience using multivariate methods including regression and logistic regression
• Proficiency in SAS programming required; preferably SAS Enterprise
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

Preferred Basic Qualifications:

• PhD in social sciences, statistics, or related field
• Effective communication skills (written and oral) in working with all levels of staff and management
• Ability to lead client presentations and make presentations to internal staff members
• Ability to organize and synthesize quantitative data to identify key findings

BCBSA employs more than 1,000 of the best strategic thinkers in the health insurance industry and offers a dynamic work environment, competitive compensation package, work/family balance, a diverse workplace, and much more! Here’s your chance to make your mark on the future of healthcare. Bring your skills and talents to an organization committed to providing the most advanced technology and services. Please apply online via the link below. The reference job number is 10-0202. https://www10.ultirecruit.com/BLU1000/jobboard/NewCandidateExt.aspx?__JobID=15420 Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

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Predictive Analytics Consultant / Lead - Dunn Solutions Group (Skokie, IL)

Description:

Dunn Solutions Group is expanding our business intelligence practice area to bring our clients the next generation of value from their data warehouse implementations. This new role will be responsible for working with our business intelligence team to deliver predictive models and data mining solutions to our customers. A strong background in data mining, predictive analytics and models, databases, and an ability to understand how business needs can be met through predictive analytics.

Job Requirements:

• Looking for an individual with 3+ years of data mining experience.
• Must have experience in planning, designing, and implementing the data mining projects.
• Knowledge of MS SQL Server or Oracle is a must.
• Knowledge of Clementine or Systat a plus.
• Ability to extract, transform and process complex data sets to work with data mining tools.
• Must have the ability to communicate technical information to a non-technical audience. Works well in a team environment.

Position is Full-Time Permanent salaried with benefits (medical, dental, 401(K), profit sharing, paid vacation, holiday and sick days). Applicant must be U.S. resident or currently able to legally work in the U.S. on a Full-Time basis.

Please e-mail resumes to : sdanilov@dunnsolutions.com with subject: Predictive Analytics Consultant.

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Clinical Innovations Metrician - Humana (Louisville, KY)

Humana Inc., headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, is one of the nation's largest publicly traded health benefits companies. Humana offers a diversified portfolio of health insurance products and related services - through traditional and consumer-choice plans - to employer groups, government-sponsored plans, and individuals. Today, Humana is a leader in consumer engagement. Throughout its diversified customer portfolio, the company provides guidance that can both help lower costs and lead to a better health plan experience.

Role: Clinical Innovations Metrician Requisition ID: 33996 Assignment: Predictive Modeling/ Data Mining Analyst Location: Louisville, KY Recruiter: dfingers [at] humana.com (replace [at] by @)

(use above requisition ID # when searching on Humana.com, Select the Careers link and then the Career Opportunities link, both are located on the left side of the page)

Assignment Capsule

As a Predictive Modeling/ Data Mining Analyst you will perform data analysis, develop algorithms and predictive models, and present technical information to a broad audience. You will apply algorithms and modeling tools to real client data, and develop solutions with other areas of the business. Responsibilities include:

• Develop and maintain a suite of predictive analytics to drive consumer engagement in Humana’s clinical activities
• Develop statistical models & methodologies to predict, quantify, and/or forecast various business/health metrics
• Ensure and maintain data quality and reliability
• Provide expertise and assistance in implementing model results in ongoing business processes
• Identify and recommend new data sources that will maximize analytic output and conclusions
• Create customized reports with a team of analysts
• Ensure full and clear documentation of all processes

Key Competencies

• Acts Strategically: You foster a consistent understanding of strategy, translate it into defined plans, and "stay the course" to implement it, while anticipating and identifying where change is needed.
• Leadership: You inspire extraordinary results by: engaging associates, valuing diversity and shaping culture to support a high performance environment.
• Communication: You actively listen to others to understand their perspective and ensure continuous understanding regardless of communication channel or audience.
• Innovate: You introduce new ideas and processes which improve performance and productivity.

Role Essentials

• Master’s Degree in Math, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science or a related field
• Prior experience on data mining, statistics, pattern recognition, machine learning
• Strong experience using modeling tools such as SAS, SPSS, R, Matlab
• Passion for solving challenging technical problems, creativity, and detail orientated
• Ability to effectively communicate results of statistical models to broad audience

Role Desirables

• PhD Degree in Math, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science or a related field
• Advanced experience and in-depth knowledge of modeling techniques, such as feature transformation, selection, nonlinear modeling including neural networks, boosted trees etc.
• Experience of develop and implement models in transactional databases
• Experience with SAS Enterprise Miner
• Experience with large data sets especially health care data

Reporting Relationships

You will report to a Manager. This area is under the leadership of the VP of Health Guidance Organization & Chief Operating Officer.

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Industrial Statistician - Sensitech (Beverly, MA)

Sensitech is the leading provider of cold chain visibility solutions that enable our customers, global leaders in Food and Pharmaceuticals, to track and monitor assets across the supply chain, protecting the quality, efficacy, and integrity of their temperature-sensitive products.

Our product portfolio includes comprehensive analytic services, enterprise software systems and validated data acquisition devices. We address our customers’ most complex perishable cold chain problems and deliver powerful insights that drive measurable process improvement.

Our solutions allow customers to increase profitability, deliver higher quality products, ensure consumer safety, comply with rigorous regulatory requirements and protect brand equity. In the past decade, Sensitech has protected over $250 billion of our customers' assets around the world.

Sensitech offers technical, customer and support services, and invests in ongoing research and development programs to enhance and expand our product offerings and services. We’re on the cutting edge of cold chain management, continuously developing innovative solutions to better protect your perishables. We’re also expanding beyond traditional condition monitoring to include track and trace solutions, a combination of services we refer to as Cold Chain Visibility.

Qualified candidates should apply on-line at www.sensitech.com.

JOB TITLE: Professional Services Food Program Manager / Industrial Statistician

JOB LOCATION: Beverly, MA USA

BASIC PURPOSE: This position is responsible for managing activities related to data analysis and reporting for European-based programs that help companies involved in the manufacture or distribution of temperature sensitive food products to monitor and continuously improve their temperature controlled supply chains. This involves data analysis, information visualization, project management and report writing. This position will work closely with European based Program Managers. It also involves working with a cross functional team based in Europe, South America and North America; which includes data analysts, project managers, industrial engineers, food scientists and field technicians.

PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Manage databases, analyze data and create reports. Provide expertise and training in industrial statistics to other team members
• Manage European projects and programs that require or will benefit from headquarters support especially in regard to data analysis, information visualization and report writing
• Facilitate the flow of information between our Europe-based and US-based Professional Services team members
• Act as advocate and first point of contact for European Professional Services team members in the corporate office

ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

• MS in Industrial Statistics or related field preferred
• Expertise and industry experience with process improvement methodologies, SPC, Six-Sigma, DOE, exploratory data analysis, data mining and information visualization
• Minimum 5 years work experience in industry involving process improvement, quality management or data analysis
• Must have practical, hands on approach, proven ability to work well with non-statisticians and proven ability to use statistics to improve real life processes.
• Experience in cold chain management, refrigeration or food distribution is desired, but not required
• Must be service oriented
• French, German or other European language skills, including writing skills are desired, but not required
• Must have excellent project management skills and be organized and detail oriented
• Creativity, problem-solving skills, strong analytical and communication skills required

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Software Development Engineer - Amazon (Seattle, WA)

Software Dev Engineer, Product Ads: Ad Targeting

Amazon.com’s Product Ads team is looking for exceptional software engineers to develop algorithms and build systems to solve a variety of Information Retrieval, Data Mining, and Distributed Caching problems related to Ad Targeting – one of the company’s biggest opportunities for growth. Our principal challenge is to drive monetization by selecting the most relevant ads to show to a particular customer on a particular page. We have a variety of data available to help us make targeting decisions, including customer behavior, historical ad performance, and page context. However, the volume of data and the combinatorial effect of multiple dimensions of data pose a challenge for storing, processing, and effectively using this data. Ads need to be delivered in tens of milliseconds, compounding the problem further. The Product Ads team is building a highly scalable, distributed ad platform that addresses these problems using an innovative mix of Information Retrieval, Clustering, and Distributed Caching techniques. Product Ads is a high-profile, highly strategic business unit, with support and interest from all parts of Amazon and top management. We are a highly motivated, cooperative and fun-loving team with a mandate for and record of invention and experimentation. As part of this team you will be working with large volumes of data to extract insight using statistics, data mining, and machine learning techniques; then, using these insights, you will build next generation monetization algorithms and models for ad auctions and ad networks. The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications:

• PhD or/and an Advanced degree in Computer Science, Math or related field with 5+ years of experience.
• Past experience in at least one of the following areas – Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Statistics, Auction Theory, or Machine Learning.
• Desire to analyze data while developing solutions to problems.
• Strong desire to build high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems.
• Strong design and coding skills in Java/C++ on Unix Platforms.
• Familiarity with Perl and an understanding of SQL.
• Highly innovative, flexible and self-directed.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

If you enjoy broadening your technical skills, building a new business, and working in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and product innovation, then this is the job for you! Contact:

In order to be considered for this position, please send your resume directly to me at nkrishna@amazon.com.

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Senior Statistician - Shopzilla (Los Angeles, CA)

Create and innovate. And have fun along the way.

Zillans, as we call ourselves, work within an atmosphere where laughter is encouraged, dress is casual, and nobody takes him or herself too seriously. But we do work hard every single day to make Shopzilla the greatest shopping search engine in the world. To that end, we strive to hire the smartest, most passionate people we can find.

We currently have the following opportunity available:

Senior Statistician

As our Senior Statistician, you will:

• Identify and prioritize optimization opportunities in collaboration with your manager
• Leverage state-of-the-art data systems to mine some of the most comprehensive logs of the online retail world. Utilize your skills in advanced statistics and machine learning to identify correlations, patterns, and levers that provide meaningful optimization opportunities
• Design, implement, and validate AI systems for optimization of product recommendation and consumer experience personalization
• Advise and support teams in design of experiments and analysis of test results
• Deploy and test your optimization methodologies on nimble production environments; measure and report on the projected impact of your optimizations
• Develop production-worthy solutions by leveraging engineering teams dedicated to optimization processes
• Launch, monitor, and tune your optimization systems in order to maximize financial return and reach goals set forth by executive management
• Leverage your experience to explore improvements to data systems, learn new optimization methodologies, and grow your responsibilities and your career

Your qualifications include:

• 2+ years experience in an operational role
• 2+ years experience with algorithm design
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills
• High energy and the capacity to manage complex, multi-team projects
• Experience with / understanding of most of the following methodologies: clustering, association rules, logistic and linear regression, support vector machines, decision trees, random forests, boosting, bagging, neural networks, genetic programming
• Experience with text mining, semantic parameterization, document mapping
• Experience with ETL and manipulation of large data sets
• Expertise in at least one of: SPSS, SAS, R, Matlab
• Proficiency in at least one of: Perl, Python, Java, Shell Scripting
• Advanced Degree (PhD preferred) in Statistics, Applied Math, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Operations Research

In return for your talent and dedication, you'll enjoy excellent benefits including medical, dental and vision plans; life insurance; a 401(k) plan; a flexible spending account; and generous vacation benefits -- and to top it off, we provide FREE catered lunch every day!

If you're super-smart, interested in solving challenging problems, enjoy life and care about the people you work with, then Shopzilla is a good fit for you.

About us:

Shopzilla, Inc. is one of the largest and most comprehensive online shopping networks on the web. Through its leading comparison shopping sites, bizrate.com®and Shopzilla.com®, Shopzilla helps shoppers find the best value for virtually anything they want to buy from thousands of online retailers. Based in Los Angeles, Shopzilla operates sites in the U.S., U.K., France and Germany. The company is owned by Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.(NYSE:SNI), which include national lifestyle TV networks such as HGTV, The Food Network, Fine Living, The Travel Channel, and more.

Shopzilla is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Please submit your resume to: jobs@shopzilla.com

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Research Data Warehouse Specialist (Duarte, CA)

Position Summary

Responsible for the planning, oversight, and coordination of information management activities related to sourcing and provisioning of research related data to and from the City of Hope enterprise data warehouse. Information management activities include establishment and enforcement of policies, processes, and procedures related to data integrity, data integration and retention, and secured data access. Assist with the selection of source data considered for inclusion in the warehouse, specification of data integrity criteria for selected data, prioritizing and ranking of source data relative to alternative sources, and declaration of data ownership and data access rights and privileges with regard to selected source data. Assist with data quality assurance and linkage validation of the data records within the warehouse, and oversee documentation of the domain-level business metadata.

Position Accountabilities

Maintain metadata such as data element definitions, integrity rules, and ETL requirements regarding research related data included or planned for inclusion in the data warehouse. Participate in decision making related to selection and prioritizing of potential data sources for data of interest to research. Assist in the declaration and definition of derivation algorithms and calculations for measures and indicators to be included in the data warehouse of importance to research activities. Participate in decision making related to the declaration of data access policies and technologies used to enforce them. Assist in the definition and design of research related analytical data stores (data marts) populated using data extracted from the data warehouse. Participate in regular audits of the data warehouse to verify data quality and rectification of identified data integrity issues. Maintain professional growth and development through seminars, workshops, and professional affiliations. Keep abreast of latest trends in the field of clinical and research data warehousing and analytics. Follow established policies and procedures regarding job performance, attendance, safety, infection control, conflict of interest, and confidentiality. Perform other related duties as assigned or requested.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• Three to five years in a programmer/analyst position working with large multi-user systems
• SQL, SQR, Peoplesoft Applications and Tools, Crystal reports

Send resume to: RArmendariz@coh.org Website: www.coh.orgURL: www.datashaping.com/jobs18258x.shtml Please mention datashaping.com when applying. Thank you.