Senior Biostatistician Role
Leads collaborations with clinical investigators to determine study design, contributes to protocol development, authors statistical analysis plans, performs statistical analysis, makes statistical inference and writes and presents reports summarizing findings including publications in peer-reviewed journals.
Manages statistical activities for a clinical study or platform of clinical studies. Supervises biostatisticians, associate biostatisticians, and SAS programmers (all levels) and directs their work on clinical research studies.
- Provides expert consultation to projects across the company on statistical methodology.
- Solves problems of complex statistical scope.
- Reviews proposed statistical designs for research studies across the company.
- Leads project teams' development of study analysis plans and statistical programs to perform analyses and display study data.
- Stays current with statistical and medical literature to ensure sound methodologies are adopted.
- Fosters innovation in biostatistics to enhance current statistical knowledge and practices.
- Ensures the scientific integrity of research projects and the accuracy of reported results.
- Performs sample size calculations and leads the statistical design of research projects.
- Develops study assignment allocation schemas along with documentation.
- Leads the development of methods and results sections of clinical study reports and scientific publications.
- Represents the company at regulatory meetings.
Qualifications :
MS in biostatistics, statistics, or PhD in biostatistics, statistics, epidemiology, or related field.At least 4 years of related experience with MS or 1 year of related experience with PhD is expected but not required.Experience with methodological statistical research, publication, and / or presentation of work in statistical methods development.Demonstrated proficiency with statistical methods and applications in clinical research.Strong programming skills in SAS and / or R.Expertise in state-of-the-art data manipulation and statistical methodology.Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.Ability to manage multiple tasks.Ability to work independently and in a team environment.Ability to effectively communicate complex statistical concepts, written and oral.