Principal Statistician

A dynamic Contract Research Organisation (CRO) is looking for a Principal Statistician to join their well-established team in England. The role of the Principal Statistician is to provide statistical support to the statistics and programming department across a range of projects, clients and therapeutic areas.

Job Responsibilities

• Perform technical review and provide input into clinical trial documents including protocols, CRFs, CSRs.
• Author and review study SAP, TFL shells and dataset specifications.
• Support study and/or compound level activities advising on study design and statistical issues across phases and therapeutic areas.
• Author, validate and document SAS programs for datasets, TFLs and macros, applying good programming practice.
• Application of complex statistical techniques (e.g. mixed effects, non-linear modelling, Bayesian, advanced survival), model checking and interpretation.
• Line management of statisticians, programmers and other technical staff.
• Accountable for overall performance of direct reports.
• Provide coaching and mentoring of staff to achieve "excellence". Direct employee career development and ensure line reports receive appropriate training to perform their day-to-day jobs.
• Interview and effectively on-board and integrate new staff members.
• Provide statistical technical leadership and coaching.
• Being Project Manager on client accounts and projects.
• Proactive management of resource, scope change and risks.
• Lead internal and client study, project and cross functional team meetings effectively.
• Build effective collaborative working relationships with internal and client team members.
• Ensure learnings are shared across projects or studies.
• Develop and provide internal technical training where appropriate.
• Lead process improvement initiatives.

Skills and Requirements

• MSc or PhD in Statistics/Biostatistics (or equivalent).
• At least 6 years of relevant industry experience.
• Understanding of clinical drug development process, relevant disease areas, endpoints and different study designs.
• Awareness of industry and project standards & ICH guidelines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Interpersonal/teamwork skills for effective interactions.
• Proficiency in data handling using SAS or other statistical software (e.g. R).
• Self-management skills with a focus on results for timely and accurate completion of competing deliverables.

To Apply

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