Director, Statistics

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Job Number#173390 - Piscataway New Jersey United States

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Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care Personal Care Home Care Skin Care and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world making us a household name!

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Title: Director of Global Statistics

Location: Piscataway

Travel: As needed 10%

The Role:

The primary function of CP R&D is to develop new and innovative products. To this end our scientists must make important decisions based on limited data and considerable uncertainty. As a leader of CP Statistics you will ensure that our organization and scientists are equipped and skilled to make better data-based decisions in the face of this uncertainty. You will achieve this through direct one-on-one collaboration strategic capability development and training. Your vision leadership and analytical expertise will help sustain our pipeline of innovative products and ensure that CP continues to retain its well-earned reputation as an innovation leader in the CPG industry.

Responsibilities:

• Promote application of Statistical Thinking and Design of Experiments (DOE) to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of product development process

• Provide one-on-one project-specific consulting on DOE design analysis and interpretation

• Support automation of core routine statistical tasks (eg DOE stability analysis process capability) into enterprise applications

• Provide pre-clinical guidance on clinical study design power and statistical analysis plan (SAP) for study protocols

• Conduct post-clinical data analysis and help investigators with interpretation claim support and publication

• Provide analysis of accelerated stability data to substantiate product shelf life declarations for new product registration

• Work with plant-based Quality teams to increase the effectiveness of our process capability and Six Sigma continuous improvement programs

• Provide statistical support/POV to address issues raised by Regulatory bodies (eg FDA audits FTC/NAD claim challenges etc)

• Work with R&D leaders to identify and rectify capability gaps (eg Sensory methods stability analysis Six Sigma)

• Use appropriate statistical design and validation tools to assess and improve measurement system accuracy and precision

• Manage administer and foster development of direct reports

• Manage and administrator commercial statistical software applications (eg SAS JMP Minitab DesignExpert)

Required Qualifications:

• A minimum of a Masters Degree or higher in Industrial Statistics Biostatistics or related field is required

• 10 years of expereince in a consumer products industry pharmaceutical biotech or related industry

• Demonstrated expertise in application of DOE in consumer product R&D

• Demonstrated expertise in clinical design and biostatistical analysis

• Statistical software skills (SAS JMP Minitab DesignExpert R Python)

• Enterprise software skills (SQL AWS LIMs etc)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters Degree

• Background in stability testing methods accelerated data analysis and Arrhenius modeling

• Background in sensory science consumer/expert panel testing and analysis methods

• Prior experience working with regulatory bodies (eg FDA FTC/NAD)

• Prior experience in method development design and validation

• Familiarity with manufacturing quality control metrics and tools (eg process capability sampling plans Six Sigma DMAIC)

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral)

• Enthusiasm and passion for teaching/raising awareness of utility of statistics

• Excellent consulting/collaboration skills

• Familiarity with tools and methods used in omics data analysis (i.e. genomics transcriptomics proteomics and metabolomics)

Compensation and Benefits
Salary Range $200000.00 - $230000.00 USD

Pay is determined based on experience qualifications and location. Salaried employees may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses profit-sharing and long-term incentives for Executive-level roles.

Benefits: Salaried employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits package including medical dental vision basic life insurance paid parental leave disability coverage and participation in the 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions subject to eligibility requirements. Additional benefits include a minimum of 15 vacation/PTO days (hourly employees receive a minimum of 120 hours) and 13 paid holidays (vacation days are prorated based on the employees hire date within the calendar year). Paid sick leave is adjusted based on role and location in accordance with local laws. Detailed information regarding paid sick leave entitlements will be provided to employees upon hiring and may be subject to adjustments based on changes in legislation or company policies.

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Equal Opportunity Employer
Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity sexual orientation national origin ethnicity age disability marital status veteran status (United States positions) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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