This position is for a qualified Statistician/Biostatistician to support Biostatistics Scientific Insights within Global Development.
In this role, a typical day might include:
Working with cross-functional teams to articulate drug development questions, assess the feasibility of endpoints and frame statistical approaches to address those questions, design clinical experiments and interventional studies to generate and analyze the resulting data, and work with teams to appropriately interpret the results and make decisions. The incumbent will co-author clinical study protocols, statistical analysis plans, and perform statistical analyses for interim and final reports. The incumbent will also develop and deliver training to non-statistical colleagues, collaborate on development of new infrastructure and processes, and influence the external pharmaceutical industry and regulatory environment through participation in professional associations, conferences, and publications.
This role might be for you if can:
- Interact with Medical Directors, Clinical Scientists, Regulatory Affairs, Preclinical scientists, Statistical Programming, Data Management, Medical Writing, and others to design and analyze clinical trials.
- Develop individual protocols and statistical analysis plans and determine appropriate statistical methodology for data analysis.
- Collaborate with Statistical Programming on the programming of tables, figures and listings to support decision making and for regulatory reporting.
- Evaluate appropriateness of available software for planned analyses and determine needs for use of novel statistical methodology or tools.
- Analyze data and interpret results from clinical trials and of data from non-trial sources to facilitate program-level decision making.
- Prepare presentations and written reports to effectively communicate results to the project team, management, and regulatory agencies. Co-present findings to management.
- Be involved in research activities for innovative statistical methods and applications in clinical trial development as well as providing training to non-statisticians.
To be considered for this opportunity you must have a:
- PhD or equivalent degree in statistics/biostatistics with >2 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry, or MS degree in statistics/biostatistics with >7 years’ experience.
- Knowledge of drug discovery and development and ability to integrate statistical concepts into drug discovery and development strategies.
- Excellent influence and leadership skills, and a demonstrated ability to collaborate in a cross-functional environment.
- Ability to work productively in a fast-paced collaborative environment, with demonstrated critical thinking skills, time management skills, and effective communication skills.
- Solid knowledge of statistical analysis methodologies, experimental and clinical trial design.
- Expertise in statistical software such as R or SAS is required.
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