This is what you will do:

The Associate Director,Biostatisticshas sufficient experience working as a statistician in the pharmaceutical industry to independently perform and lead statistical work within a project,an indicationwithin a more complex project. This individualis able tolead, and direct biostatistics work either in house orpartneringwith CROs to ensure delivery to quality and time

You willbe responsible for

The Associate Director, Biostatistics may work as a lead statistician

• For a project orindicationin clinical or preclinical therapeutic areas

• Leading the delivery and oversight on a multiple studies/indicationwithin a project, potentially as a Global Project Statistician for a standard drug project

• Contributing to statistical methodological advances

Accountabilities for supporting projects directly include:

• Lead the statistical thinking and contributions to the delivery of studies, development plans, regulatory strategy, health technologyassessmentand/or commercialactivities

• Direct project work, including statistical staff and/or CRO partners, to ensure delivery to standards, quality, andtime

• Develop design options and provide high quality decision support to enable the business to make informed decisions about a study orproject

• Quantify the benefit, risk, value, and uncertainty of the emerging asset/productprofile

• Investigate and apply novel statistical approaches, for relevant statistical issues and/or regulatory guidance and/or value demonstration, including modelling andsimulation

• Leverage standardization to maximize global data integration andinterpretability

• Mentor/coach and support the education and training of statisticsstaff

You will need to have:

• 3 years’ experienceand an MSc/PhD in Statistics, Mathematics (containingasubstantialstatisticalcomponent), or recognized equivalent to statsMSc

• Strong knowledge of programming in R and/or SAS

• Knowledge ofthe technical and regulatory requirements related to therole

• Excellent communication skills, andability to build strongrelationships

• Flexible, well-organized, andpossessthe ability to work well underpressure

• The duties of this role aregenerally conductedin an office environment. As is typical of an office-based role, employees must be able, with or without an accommodationto:use a computer; engage in communications via phone, video, and electronic messaging; engage in problem solving and non-linear thought, analysis, and dialogue; collaborate with others; maintain general availability during standard business hours.

We wouldpreferfor you to have:

• PhD in Statistics/Biostatisticsispreferred

• Project management skills

• Proficiencyin SAS and R languages

• Knowledge of Bayesian statistics from theory to computation is a plus