Associate Director Biostatistics
Associate Director Biostatistics
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Job Description
Location: Barcelona Spain (Onsite) 2 days working from the office and 2 days working from home.
This is what you will do:
The Associate Director Biostatistics has sufficient experience working as a statistician in the pharmaceutical industry to independently perform and lead statistical work within a project an indication within a more complex project. This individual is able to lead and direct biostatistics work either in house or partnering with CROs to ensure delivery to quality and time.
You will be responsible for:
The Associate Director Biostatistics may work as a lead statistician:
- For a project or indication in clinical or preclinical therapeutic areas
- Leading the delivery and oversight on a multiple studies/indication within a project potentially as a Global Project Statistician for a standard drug project
- Contributing to statistical methodological advances
Accountabilities for supporting projects directly include:
- Lead the statistical thinking and contributions to the delivery of studies development plans regulatory strategy health technology assessment and/or commercial activities
- Direct project work including statistical staff and/or CRO partners to ensure delivery to standards quality and time
- Develop design options and provide high quality decision support to enable the business to make informed decisions about a study or project
- Quantify the benefit risk value and uncertainty of the emerging asset/product profile
- Investigate and apply novel statistical approaches for relevant statistical issues and/or regulatory guidance and/or value demonstration including modelling and simulation
- Leverage standardization to maximize global data integration and interpretability
- Mentor/coach and support the education and training of statistics staff
You will need to have:
- MSc/PhD in Statistics Mathematics (containing a substantial statistical component) or recognized equivalent to stats MSc
- Strong knowledge of programming in R and/or SAS
- Knowledge of the technical and regulatory requirements related to the role
- Excellent communication skills and ability to build strong relationships
- Flexible wellorganized and possess the ability to work well under pressure
- The duties of this role are generally conducted in an office environment. As is typical of an officebased role employees must be able with or without an accommodation to: use a computer; engage in communications via phone video and electronic messaging; engage in problem solving and nonlinear thought analysis and dialogue; collaborate with others; maintain general availability during standard business hours.
We would prefer for you to have:
- PhD in Statistics/Biostatistics is preferred.
- Project management skills
- Proficiency in SAS and R languages
- Knowledge of Bayesian statistics from theory to computation is a plus.
Date Posted
29abr2025Closing Date
29may2025Alexion is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where every single person can belong because of their uniqueness. The Company will not make decisions about employment training compensation promotion and other terms and conditions of employment based on race color religion creed or lackthereof sex sexualorientation age ancestry national origin ethnicity citizenship status marital statuspregnancy (including childbirth breastfeeding or related medical conditions) parental status (including adoption or surrogacy) military status protected veteran status disability medical condition gender identity or expression genetic information mental illness or other characteristics protected by law. Alexion provides reasonable accommodations to meet the needs of candidates and employees. To begin aninteractive dialogue with Alexion regarding an accommodation please contact . Alexion participates in EVerify.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
