Senior Statistician

At Bayer we're visionaries, driven to solve the world's toughest challenges and striving for a world where 'Health for all, Hunger for none' is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We're doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining 'impossible'. There are so many reasons to join us. If you're hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there's only one choice.

Position purpose : A Senior Statistician provides statistical expertise to cross-functional teams, leads teams of statisticians and programmers, and ensures the use of appropriate and efficient statistical analysis methods during development, submission and / or life-cycle management of Bayer products according to applicable global and regional standards, procedures and regulatory guidelines.

Scope

Global

Responsibilities

• Takes the statistical lead for a project in the represented Statistics Sub-Cluster, for example, in the role of a Project Statistician.
• Collaborates with virtual teams of statisticians and / or representatives from other functions.
• Contributes to the development and evolution of project standards.
• Provides statistical and methodological consultation and contributes to multi-disciplinary teams within or across companies.
• Responds to inquiries from health authorities and other internal or external partners.
• Keeps abreast of regulatory and methodological issues and ensures implementation of these in the respective teams.
• Influences decision making processes during drug development and / or life-cycle management by use of appropriate statistical methodology (e.g. simulations, meta-analyses or modeling approaches).
• Develops and implements innovative statistical methodology for the respective field of responsibility, if appropriate in cooperation with academic experts.

Value Added

Statistics and statistical methodology are an integral part of drug development and life-cycle management impacting the planning, design, analysis and reporting of studies, projects and programs in order to achieve regulatory approval, scientific acceptance as well as successful product launch and maintenance. The Senior Statistician contributes to drug research, the development of new drugs, the approval of new drugs by health and reimbursement authorities, and the life-cycle management of marketed drugs according to the major tasks and responsibilities of the position.

Work Relations

• Early Clinical Leaders / Global Clinical Leaders
• Statisticians and Statistical Analysts
• Study Team Members and / or Clinical Team Members
• External Experts in Statistical methodology, providers of statistical specialist software and CROs providing statistical expertise

Qualifications & Requirements

• PhD or MS in Biostatistics, Statistics or Mathematics
• At least two years of experience as statistician with significant time spent in the Pharma, Biotech, or similar sector
• Thorough knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry including understanding of clinical drug development process and / or life-cycle management and associated documents and regulations.
• Embrace and role model the flexibility and capabilities of team ownership, as well as mentoring / coaching capabilities across diverse cultural environments, in a DSO (Dynamic Shared Ownership) environment
• Experience in multiple fields relevant for his / her statistics sub-function
• Excellent interpersonal, leadership and communication skills and ability to work independently and collaboratively
• Good knowledge of statistical programming languages (including SAS and / or R)
• Fluency in English

Your Application

This is your opportunity to tackle the world's biggest challenges with us : Maintaining our health, feeding growing populations and slowing the rate of climate change. You have a voice, ideas and perspectives and we want to hear them. Because our success begins with you. Be part of something big. Be Bayer.

Bayer welcomes applications from all individuals, regardless of race, national origin, gender, age, physical characteristics, social origin, disability, union membership, religion, family status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or any unlawful criterion under applicable law. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and avoiding discrimination.