SAS Visual Statistics Consultant

Job Description: Seeking a full time VISUAL STATISTICS CONSULTANT to work with our customer, a large sized health insurance company in the Minnetonka, MN area. The consultant will assist SAS and its customer to develop analytical models with the intent of identifying behavioral trends within its insured membership base. The customer seeks to predict events such as hospital readmission rates, likeliness to respond to prescribed health regimens, etc.. The consultant will use SAS Visual Statistics and SAS Visual Analytics among other software solutions to develop models and reports. The consultant must have excellent communication skills and must be able to communicate about methods used and results of analysis both to executives and other analysts in the organization alike.

QUALIFICATIONS: ESSENTIAL Experience with linear and logistic regression. Experience with SAS Visual Statistics. 1 year of experience using SAS Visual Analytics 6.4 or higher in a distributed environment, including: Loading data into LASR Analytic Server and experience with Visual Data Builder. Experience with VA Explorer and VA Designer. Linux/UNIX experience. 2 years of experience with SAS 9 EBI, Base SAS, SAS/STAT, and SAS/GRAPH. Experience in the Health Insurance Industry. Good written and spoken communication skills in English. Competence in Microsoft Office.