Principal Statistician
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Job Description
We create a place where people can grow be their best be safe and feel welcome valued and included. We offer a competitive salary an annual bonus based on company performance healthcare and wellbeing programmes pension plan membership and shares and savings programme.
We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and inoffice work.
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Job purpose
GSK urgently needs talented Clinical Statisticians to join our team and ensure high quality quantitative reasoning drives every project. Your role will be crucial in maximising the use of data determining effective translational plans for endtoend clinical development and applying innovative statistical methods. We need exceptionally talented and committed Statisticians to drive key contributions to the development of new medicines.
The Early Development Statistics (EDS) group is seeking a Principal Statistician to lead the full lifecycle of Phase 1 and PoC clinical trials from design to reporting and serve as the statistical representative for the study team within the larger organisation. This role covers activities from study setup to management and closeout including drafting of study documents such as protocols and analysis plans. EDS supports all therapeutic areas in the Respiratory and Immunology Research Unit including infectious diseases. Our team is dedicated to employing innovative clinical trial designs and statistical methodologies with a particular focus on Bayesian techniques to boost the probability of program success.
Key Responsibilities:
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career these responsibilities include some of the following:
Provide statistical input for the design analysis reporting and interpretation of clinical studies.
Build and maintain strategic working relationships with internal and external partners to achieve study deliverables.
Collaborate within a crossfunctional team to ensure study objectives are met.
Identify and apply innovative statistical methodologies to support the development of medicines.
Why you
Basic Qualifications & Skills:
We are seeking professionals with the following essential skills to help us achieve our goals:
Masters Degree (or equivalent) in statistics
Relevant experience as a study statistician in clinical trials with a proven track record of strong performance
Expertise in statistical modelling for clinical problems including sample size calculations for various endpoints and analysis of longitudinal data
Excellent communication and collaboration skills including the ability to explain statistical approaches to both scientific and clinical colleagues
Proficiency in programming languages like R or SAS
Proficiency and agility in time management and prioritization
Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
Please note the following skills are preferred but not required. If you do not possess them we still encourage you to apply:
PhD in statistics.
Experience with Bayesian methods.
Expertise in multiple statistical methodologies and their practical application.
Ability to apply innovative statistical thinking.
Strong influencing skills effectively utilised across functions and organisation levels.
Experience in working with and coordinating the work of CROs.
Closing Date for Applications 25th April 2025 (COB)
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When applying for this role please use the cover letter of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.
Why GSK
Uniting science technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose to unite science technology and talent to get ahead of disease together so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger more sustainable shareholder returns as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases HIV respiratory/ immunology and oncology).
Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders its also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves feeling welcome valued and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So if you share our ambition join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer we are open to all talent. In the US we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity race/ethnicity colour national origin religion gender pregnancy marital status sexual orientation gender identity/expression age disability genetic information military service covered/protected veteran status or any other federal state or local protected class**US only).
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