Flexible working arrangements, Competitive salary, Well-renowned CRO.
Your new company
How would you like to work for a multiple award-winning company that pride themselves in providing the best quality services?
At Hays we have teamed up with a well renowned CRO who provide high quality statistics, programming, data management and data science services. Their goal is to support pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. The company have amazing career progression opportunities along with the chance to work with like-minded individuals who have years of knowledge to share. From this we have an exciting opportunity for you to work as Associate Director of Biostatistics alongside an industry leading team which averages over 10 years' field experience.
Your new role
As an associate director of biostatistics, you will hold a high-level consultancy, client relationship, project leadership and hands-on technical statistics role. Working across a range of therapeutic areas, you will lead assigned studies across phases I-IV, ensuring they are delivered to optimal quality, on time and on budget.
Key responsibilities:
- Act as lead biostatistician within a reporting team environment, responsible for the statistical aspects of clinical studies across phases I-IV
- Work as study project lead, responsible for predicting and planning resources, allocating staff, quality control and the timely delivery of outputs
- Lead a team of statisticians and programmers to manipulate, summarise and analyse clinical trial data using a variety of statistical methods
- Prepare randomisation schedules and act as unblinded biostatistician on reporting teams
- Advise, mentor and teach internal and external statisticians with regards to statistical and data analysis methods
- Function as a study expert across multiple studies, helping to clarify details on analysis methods to the study team
- Work as oversight statistician for regulatory submissions
- Ensure the team meets the highest quality standards and follows the principles detailed in the company's internal procedures
- Act as an expert statistical consultant to pharmaceutical/biotechnology companies, maintaining a positive and engaging client relationship with regards to statistical issues
What you'll need to succeed
- PhD or MSc in biostatistics or related discipline
- Experience working within a clinical trials environment (CRO or pharma) to have a good awareness of clinical trial issues, design and implementation
- Vaccine / GI experience beneficial but not essential
- Experience working on rare disease clinical trials beneficial but not essential
- Experience of working with CDISC data standards and various statistical modelling techniques
- Previous experience performing statistical analysis using SAS
- Project leadership experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to communicate with a broad range of people across different functions
What you'll get in return
- The opportunity to expand your knowledge through structured training and development plans
- The opportunity to continue your own research
- Flexible working arrangements
- A competitive salary and an industry-leading benefits package
- The chance to work within a relaxed, fun and friendly working environment.
What you need to do now
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