Principal Biostatistician FSP

JOB DESCRIPTION

Who Are You?

An experienced Principal Biostatistician with a passion for clinical development and analysis, adept at utilizing advanced statistical methods, you will lead one Phase I-IV clinical studies across your region. You are excited and enthusiastic, motivate your teams to do great work and collaborate easily with your clients. You never settle for what is, but always push clinical development forward to what it could be. You motivate others to do the same.

Sponsor-dedicated:

Working fully embedded within one of our pharmaceutical clients, with the support of Cytel right behind you, you'll be at the heart of our client's innovation. As a Biostatistician you will be dedicated to one of our global pharmaceutical clients; a company that is driving the next generation of patient treatment, where individuals are empowered to work with autonomy and ownership. This is an exciting time to be a part of this new program.

Position Overview:

Our Principal Biostatisticians provide statistical and development support and influence for the associated client's trials providing expertise into processes, clinical development plans, concept sheets and protocols, as well as potentially providing oversight of work supported by other vendors. You will formulate integrated analytical approach to mine data sources, employ statistical methods, machine learning & deep learning algorithms to discover actionable insights and automate process for reducing effort and time for repeated use.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Principal Biostatistician, your responsibilities will include:

• Leading end-to-end clinical trial activities, submissions, study design, and publications.
• Design, run and analyse A/B and multivariate hypothesis tests aimed at optimizing customer and patient experience. Also, pick up new skills and technologies necessary on the job. Articulate solutions/recommendations to business users. Works with senior data science team member to present analytical content concisely and effectively
• Collaborate with globally dispersed internal stakeholders and cross-functional teams to solve critical business problems and deliver successfully on high visibility strategic initiatives.
• Utilizing your strong communication skills to present and explain the methodology and consequences of decisions.
• Project manage own tasks and works with allied team members; plans proactively, anticipates and actively manages change, sets stakeholder expectations as required Independently identifies research articles and reproduce/apply methodology to business problems

QUALIFICATIONS

Here at Cytel we want our employees to succeed and we enable this success through consistent training, development and support. To be successful in this position you will have:

• Master’s degree or PhD in statistics or a related discipline.
• 9 years supporting clinical trials in the Pharmaceutical or Biotechnology industry.
• Experience working for a pharmaceutical company is strongly desired.
• Ability to work independently, demonstrate initiative and flexibility through effective and innovative leadership.
• Attention to detail and quality focused, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, innovative, and collaborative behaviours.
• SAS programming skills for QCing critical outputs, Efficacy/Safety tables, and working closely with Programmers.
• Knowledge of R programming is a plus.
• Experience with adaptive designs, Estimand framework, and EAST are a plus.