Senior Statistical Programmer 1

Cytel provides unrivaled biostatistics and operations research knowledge to our customers in the life sciences industries in the form of both software and services. At Cytel, we work hard to create successful careers with significant professional growth for our employees, as a result of which they work hard to make Cytel successful. Cytel is a place where talent, experience and integrity come together to advance the state of clinical development.

The  Senior Statistical Programmer  has the following resonsibilities :

• Lead programmer and primary point of contact for a clinical trial protocol.
• Provides significant technical expertise for statistical programming, development of automated reports and preparation of submission data standard packages.
• Participates in all phases of programming support.
• Supports statistical programming activities for multiple and / or large / complex drug / vaccine clinical development projects.
• Accountability predominantly includes the development and execution of statistical analysis and reporting deliverables (e.g. safety and efficacy analysis datasets, tables, listings, figures).
• Responsible for the design and maintenance of statistical datasets that support multiple stakeholder groups.
• Key collaborator with statistics and other project stakeholders in ensuring that project plans are executed efficiently with timely and high quality deliverables.
• May serve as the statistical programming point of contact and knowledge holder through the entire product lifecycle for the assigned protocol.
• Effective analysis and report programming development and validation utilizing global and TA standards and following departmental SOPs and good programming practices.
• Maintain and manage a project plan including resource forecasting.
• Coordinate the activities of the supplier’s programming team; interacts with Merck statistical programmers.
• Strong project management skills; leadership at a protocol level; determines approach and ensures consistency and directs development of others when opportunities arise; ability to engage key stakeholders.
• Designs and develops complex programming algorithms.
• Ability to comprehend analysis plans which may describe methodology to be programmed; an understanding of statistical terminology and concepts.
• Good Exposure to R-Programming
• Expertise in CDISC and ADaM standards.

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