Principal Statistician at Medtronic in Northridge, California

Job Description:

Careers That Change Lives

In this exciting role as Principal Statistician - Diabetes Product Innovation, you will have responsibility for supporting Diabetes engineering teams in transforming the way we use data by applying your expertise in statistics and advanced analytics for process and product improvement and enabling our organization to make data-driven decisions.

The Diabetes Operating Unitfocuses on improving the lives of those within the global diabetes community. As a business, we strive to empower people with diabetes to live life on their terms by delivering innovation that significantly reduces the burdens of their disease state and providing support in the ways they need. Visitwww.medtronicdiabetes.comfor an overview of the products in our Diabetes product portfolio.

Join a diverse team of innovators who bring their worldview, unique backgrounds, and individual life experiences to work daily. It's no accident - we work hard to cultivate a workforce that reflects our patients and partners.

The preference is for this to be a hybrid (working both in office and remote) position at our Northridge, CA, location.

A Day in the Life

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Develops and/or applies statistical methods, software, and theories.
• Utilizes complex statistical modeling to solve business problems and product development challenges.
• Interprets and applies data in complex analyses and explains findings to cross-functional audiences to improve innovation and sustain efforts.
• Writes procedures for quality systems tasks that have statistical requirements (for example, test method validation, design verification, process validation)
• Participates in reviewing, developing, and presenting statistics training material.
• Supports standard statistical tools in the Diabetes business (for example, Minitab)
• Maintains proficiency in statistical techniques, programming, and data management best practices.
• Participates in the Global Industrial Statistics Community of Practice, supporting alignment on standards and expectations across the company.
• Ensure adherence to applicable procedures to ensure quality system compliance and high-quality work.
• Understand the various regulations we operate under in the medical device industry and ensure that the statistical methods applied align with regulatory bodies' expectations.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident in your applicant profile.

Bachelors Degree in Statistics or other relative field and 7+ years experience in statistics, biostatistics or other relevant experience.

OR

Advanced Degree in Statistics or other relevant field and 5+ years experience in statistics, biostatistics, or other relevant experience.

Nice to Have

• Statistical software: Minitab, JMP, and/orR
• Statistical methods (in particular: design of experiments, acceptance sampling, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis, reliability analysis, ANOVA, and regression)
• Demonstrated ability to communicate (written and verbal) technical content.
• Experience as a Statistician or Biostatistician at Medtronic or othermedical devicecompany, or highly regulated industries.
• Experience with Test Method Validation, Design Verification, Risk Assessment, Design Verification, and/or Process Validation
• Medical device domain knowledge Experience with Diabetes therapies/products
• Experience in regulatory compliance guidelines for medical devices (e.g. ISO, MDD/MDR, CFR)

About Medtronic
Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let's work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients' lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements
The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager, recruiter or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)

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