Associate Director, Statistical Programming

Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Associate Director of Statistical Programming to lead and manage statistical programming efforts for clinical studies. This role requires extensive experience in SAS programming and a deep understanding of statistical processes. The successful candidate will oversee programming activities, ensure compliance with SOPs, and manage a team of statistical programmers. You will collaborate with various departments to support programming needs and guarantee timely and quality deliverables. This position offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in the pharmaceutical industry while leading a talented team.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in statistical programming in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Strong people management and project management skills required.

Responsibilities

• Oversee statistical programming for multiple clinical studies.
• Manage the statistical programming team and ensure compliance with standards.

Skills

SAS Programming

Statistical Analysis

People Management

Project Management

Communication Skills

Education

BS in Statistics

MS in Biostatistics

Tools

SAS/Base

SAS/Macro

SAS/STAT

SAS/Graph

SAS/SQL

Inform

Medidata

Oracle

Job description

Associate Director, Statistical Programming

Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

CAD 90,000 - 150,000

This is what you will do:

The Associate Director of Statistical Programming will be primarily responsible for overseeing statistical programming activities for multiple clinical studies, maintaining programming infrastructure and ensuring compliance with SOPs to produce quality and timely deliverables. They must possess extensive experience and proven skills in the use of SAS within a Statistical Programming environment and complete knowledge and understanding of the statistical programming processes, procedures, and roles. They will use knowledge of CDISC SDTM and ADaM standards to support Biostatistics in statistical analysis, including generating analysis data listing, tables, and figures and create all files necessary to support an electronic submission in the eCTD format. Additionally, the successful candidate will use their strong people management skills and supervisory skills to provide direct line management to the statistical programmers, identify training needs and opportunities for optimizing staff utilization and employing the most efficient practices.

You will be responsible for:

1. Serve as the Lead Programmer and Manager of the statistical programming efforts. This may include additional responsibilities including, but not limited to:
2. Develop and validate technical programming specifications for analysis datasets using Alexion or ADaM standards.
3. Independently develop and validate programs that generate analysis datasets based on Alexion or ADaM specifications.
4. Develop and validate technical programming specifications for protocol specific efficacy tables, listings, figures/graphs.
5. Independently develop and validate programs that generate protocol specific efficacy tables, listings, figures/graphs using Alexion specifications.
6. Ensuring that the filing of study documentation is maintained to the standard required according to processes and acceptable for audit.
7. Directly support the Clinical and Statistical Programming Director in all aspects of the management and development of the Statistical Programming team. Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
8. Participate in the ongoing review of the processes used by the Statistical Programming group to ensure processes are continually complied with and updated as necessary.
9. Create and/or review programming plans, and ensure appropriate resource allocation and prioritization.
10. Act as the primary department contact, when necessary, to ensure that department standards are implemented in all studies.
11. Manage adherence to all company policies, SOPs, and other controlled documents; and ensure all programming activities adhere to departmental standards.
12. Assume direct line management responsibility of the statistical programmers, conducting performance reviews, setting and regularly reviewing objectives, providing guidance and mentoring, and developing and regularly reviewing training and career development plans as required.
13. Collaborate closely with Biostatistics, Clinical Data Management, Pharmacovigilance, Clinical Operations, and other functions within Alexion to address their needs for programming support.

You will need to have:

1. 7+ years statistical programming experience in the CRO or Pharmaceutical Industry.
2. 2-5 years people and project management experience in the CRO or Pharmaceutical Industry.
3. Experience with CDISC SDTM and ADaM models and transforming raw data into those standards.
4. Strong people management skills and supervisory skills gained from direct line management or supervisory experience. Proven abilities to lead and manage cross-functional projects, and people, from concept to completion.
5. Strong verbal and written communication skills - ability to clearly and effectively present information.
6. An excellent understanding of the roles and responsibilities of all related disciplines, in particular Biostatistics, Clinical Data Management, and Pharmacovigilance.
7. Advanced knowledge of SAS/Base, SAS/Macro, SAS/STAT, SAS/Graph, and SAS/SQL in a windows environment with a demonstrated mastery of SAS/STAT procedures.
8. Extensive experience and proven skills in the use of SAS within a Statistical Programming environment to develop and validate analysis datasets, tables, listings, and figures/graphs.
9. Knowledge of clinical database design, specifically electronic data capture using Inform, Medidata, and Oracle.
10. Advanced experience with: Constructing technical programming specifications.
11. 21CFR Part 11 Standards.
12. Integrated Summary Safety/Efficacy Analyses.
13. Creating all files necessary to support an electronic submission in the eCTD format.

We would prefer for you to have:

BS/MS/MA in Statistics, Biostatistics, Computer Science, Mathematics or related area.