Principal Statistician

Principal Statistician

At ICON Strategic Solutions, you will work in a sponsor-dedicated model, supported by ICON’s global expertise.

As the world’s largest FSP organisation, with over 90 sponsor partnerships, we offer stability, career development and a collaborative environment where your work contributes to the development of treatments that benefit patients worldwide.

As a Principal Statistician at ICON, you will design and analyse clinical trials, interpreting complex medical data, and contribute to the advancement of innovative treatments and therapies.

What You Will Do:

You will lead on biostatistics tasks requiring technical depth, with a focus on quality and continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities include:

• Serves as lead biostatistician for simple to complex clinical studies.

• Develops statistical analysis plans and reporting specifications.

• Responsible for statistical aspects of CRF design and edit specifications.

• Performs statistical analyses and interprets results for simple to complex clinical studies.

• Reviews simple to complex randomization specifications and dummy randomization schemes.

• Participates in bid defense meetings.

Your Profile:

You will have a strong foundation in biostatistics, with the experience to work independently and guide others.

Required qualifications and experience:

• Master's degree or Ph.D in Biostatistics, Statistics, or a related field with 5 or more years of biostatistical experience.

• Strong knowledge of multiple statistical and therapeutic areas, the drug development process, and statistical programming practices and procedures.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

• Effective communication skills to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.

What ICON can offer you:

Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.

In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.

Our benefits examples include:

• Various annual leave entitlements

• A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.

• Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.

• Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.

• Life assurance

• Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.

Visit our careers site ( to read more about the benefits ICON offers.

At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.

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