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Position Overview
Associate Director, Statistical Programming, provides functional expertise and leadership to clinical project teams to lead statistical programming teams and support the development, regulatory approval, and market acceptance of Bristol Myers Squibb products. This position is primarily responsible for the design, development, and implementation of technical solutions for integrating, analyzing, and reporting clinical data. The Associate Director drives the development and implementation of innovative strategies and technologies for clinical trial programming and develops collaborative relationships within Global Biometrics & Data Sciences (GBDS), with external vendors, and members of cross-functional development teams.
Key Responsibilities
Project Responsibilities:
- Provides comprehensive programming leadership and support to complex clinical project teams and vendors, including deployment of programming strategies, standards, specifications, and programmed analysis to comply with regulatory requirements, SOPs, and work practices.
- Drives the development and implementation of innovative strategies and technologies for clinical trial programming.
- Independently develops, validates, troubleshoots, and maintains complex programs and utilities in accordance with predefined specifications and standards.
- Leads the electronic submission preparation and review.
- Develops unambiguous and robust programming specifications (e.g., ADaM specifications).
- Reviews planning documents (e.g., statistical analysis plan, data presentation plan, data review plan) to align with project objectives and ensures clarity and completeness of programming assumptions and requirements; assesses document robustness and impact on programming activities.
Improvement Responsibilities:
- Drives, identifies, leads, and supports opportunities to enhance processes and technology.
- Communicates proactively and effectively around issues and risks and contributes to their remediation.
Managerial Responsibilities:
- Effectively recruits, manages, develops, evaluates, rewards, motivates, and retains direct reports, resulting in an increasing level of capabilities within GBDS.
- Conducts objective setting, performance check-ins, and year-end discussions in compliance with BMS policies; aligns objectives, feedback, and performance evaluation with manager.
- Meets regularly with direct reports, focusing on project updates, development needs, issue resolution, and provides real-time coaching and feedback; holds staff accountable for quality and timeliness of programming activities; ensures staff is compliant with training requirements.
- Communicates with manager regarding promotions, performance concerns, and retention risks.
- Builds and maintains a network with stakeholders and peers to ensure cross-functional strategies and objectives intertwine and build upon each other to achieve results.
- Acts as an extended member of the Statistical Programming Leadership Team in sharing and building up the line function vision.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in statistics, biostatistics, mathematics, computer science, or life sciences required.
- At least 10 years of programming experience in the industry, including support of significant regulatory filings, and a minimum of 5 years of experience in managing technical professionals in a regulated environment.
- Proficient knowledge of the drug development process, clinical trial methodology, regulatory guidance, industry standards, statistical concepts, and medical terminology used in the analysis and submission of clinical data.
- Broad expertise in statistical programming and in developing computing strategies.
- In-depth understanding of clinical data structure (e.g., CDISC standards) and relational databases.
- Demonstrated proficiency in using SAS to produce analysis datasets and TFLs and in using other software tools and applications (e.g., MS Office, XML, Pinnacle 21).
- Demonstrated ability in processing upstream data (e.g., multiple data forms, workflows, eDC, SDTM); demonstrated ability in providing deliverables to meet downstream requirements (e.g., ADaM, TFLs, e-submission components).
- Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment with clinical team members.
Preferred Requirements:
- Member of industry organizations or presented at Congresses/Conferences.
If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.
On-site Protocol
BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based, and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role.
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