Associate Director, Biostatistics

This is what you will do:

The Associate DirectorBiostatisticshas sufficient experience working as a statistician in the pharmaceutical industry to independently perform and lead statistical work within a projectan indicationwithin a more complex project. This individualis able tolead and direct biostatistics work either in house orpartneringwith CROs to ensure delivery to quality and time.

You willbe responsible for:

The Associate Director Biostatistics may work as a lead statistician:

• For a project orindicationin clinical or preclinical therapeutic areas

• Leading the delivery and oversight on a multiple studies/indicationwithin 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 technologyassessmentand/or commercialactivities

• Direct project work including statistical staff and/or CRO partners to ensure delivery to standards quality andtime

• Develop design options and provide high quality decision support to enable the business to make informed decisions about a study orproject

• Quantify the benefit risk value and uncertainty of the emerging asset/productprofile

• Investigate and apply novel statistical approaches for relevant statistical issues and/or regulatory guidance and/or value demonstration including modelling andsimulation

• Leverage standardization to maximize global data integration andinterpretability

• Mentor/coach and support the education and training of statisticsstaff

You will need to have:

• 3 years experienceand anMSc/PhD in Statistics Mathematics (containingasubstantialstatisticalcomponent) or recognized equivalent to statsMSc

• Strong knowledge of programming in R and/or SAS

• Knowledge ofthe technical and regulatory requirements related to therole

• Excellent communication skills andability to build strongrelationships

• Flexible well-organized andpossessthe ability to work well underpressure

• The duties of this role aregenerally conductedin an office environment. As is typical of an office-based role employees must be able with or without an accommodationto:use a computer; engage in communications via phone video and electronic messaging; engage in problem solving and non-linear thought analysis and dialogue; collaborate with others; maintain general availability during standard business hours.

We wouldpreferfor you to have:

• PhD in Statistics/Biostatisticsispreferred.

• Project management skills

• Proficiencyin SAS and R languages

• Knowledge of Bayesian statistics from theory to computation is a plus.