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JOB TITLE: Assistant Statistician 

JOB LOCATION: Colworth, Bedfordshire  

SALARY RANGE:  £20000 - £28000 plus other benefits


With a business as large and high profile as Unilever's, there are always opportunities to innovate. Unilever's laboratories at Colworth cover Biosciences, Foods and Safety & Environment, leading to a range of challenging projects for the statisticians. 

We are currently looking for new recruits for our Statistics Group, which provides statistical consultancy across the Unilever Colworth laboratories, working closely in project teams with scientists. We tackle a wide variety of applications including design and analysis of laboratory experiments, consumer trials, human studies (physiological and psychological), environmental and safety studies and statistical genetics. 

The people we are looking for will work with senior colleagues to manage the statistical content of projects, deciding on appropriate design and analysis approaches, performing the analyses and presenting and reporting the results. Methodology development and improvement is also an important part of our role, as we are committed to expanding the statistical capabilities of our group. We are committed to developing our staff and you will be given ample opportunity for personal development through appropriate training courses. 

Who should apply? We are looking for enthusiastic and self-motivated people with excellent communication skills. You should ideally have a post-graduate qualification in statistics or equivalent. Any knowledge of areas such as clinical/human studies, epidemiology or Bayesian analysis techniques would be a benefit. Good IT skills are essential as is knowledge of a major statistics package such as SAS or S-plus. 

The Colworth Laboratory is located within a country estate near the village of Sharnbrook in rural Bedfordshire, just 60 miles North of London. There are extensive sport facilities including a 9-hole golf course. The benefits package includes bonus scheme, employee share-save options, private health-care and pension programme. 


To apply for this role, please visit www.unilever.com/careers 

Please note that the last date for applying is 20th June 2008. 

Candidates who have applied can access their status update through the candidate tracking link, or for any additional queries, by contacting the Recruitment Hotline number on 0800 0284 390. 


In applying for the above position, you agree, unless you notify us when responding to this advert, that we may consider you for other vacancies we have and make your details available to other companies in the Unilever Group for the same purpose. Some Unilever companies are in countries without any data protection laws. We are committed to diversity in everything we do.