Principal Biostatistician - Oncology

Statistician/Biostatistician

This position is for a qualified Statistician/Biostatistician to support Clinical Biostatistics within Global Development Thrombosis.

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.
• Co-authoring clinical study protocols, statistical analysis plans, and performing statistical analyses for interim and final reports.
• Developing and delivering training to non-statistical colleagues, collaborating on development of new infrastructure and processes, and influencing the external pharmaceutical industry and regulatory environment through participation in professional associations, conferences, and publications.

This role might be for you if you can:

• Interacting with Medical Directors, Clinical Scientists, Regulatory Affairs, Preclinical scientists, Statistical Programming, Data Management, Medical Writing, and others to design and analyze clinical trials.
• Developing individual protocols and statistical analysis plans and determining appropriate statistical methodology for data analysis.
• Collaborating with Statistical Programming on the programming of tables, figures and listings to support decision making and for regulatory reporting.
• Evaluating appropriateness of available software for planned analyses and determining needs for use of novel statistical methodology or tools.
• Analyzing data and interpreting results from clinical trials and of data from non-trial sources to facilitate program-level decision making.
• Preparing presentations and written reports to effectively communicate results to the project team, management, and regulatory agencies. Co-presenting findings to management.
• Being 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 the following:

• 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.