Late Phase Statistician - Clinical Development- M/F

Pierre Fabre Laboratories; Boulogne-Billancourt; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentives

Profit-sharing

Pierre Fabre shareholding with match

Health and provident insurance

16 RTT plus 25 personal holidays

Public transport participation

Job summary

Pierre Fabre Laboratories is seeking a Senior Statistician to provide statistical leadership for late-stage clinical programs, mainly phase IIb/III randomized controlled trials and regulatory submissions.

You will design trials, define endpoints, manage missing data, and lead analyses using SAS and/or R, collaborating across Data Management, Programming, and Statistics to ensure robust evidence for regulatory decisions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in pharma/CRO with clinical trial development experience.
• Experience in design, analysis and reporting of phase IIb/III RCTs.
• Experience contributing to regulatory submissions or integrated efficacy/safety analyses is highly desirable.
• Oncology trial experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Participate in design of phase IIb/III RCTs with statistical support.
• Lead statistical definition of endpoints, populations, and multiplicity adjustments.
• Oversee interim analyses and independent data monitoring committees when applicable.
• Act as primary statistical contact for projects and liaise with regulatory partners.

Skills

Advanced statistical analysis

English communication

Regulatory coordination

Education

Master's degree in Statistics

PhD in related field

Tools

SAS

R

CDISC standards

Job description

The Biometry Department at Pierre Fabre supports all drugs being developed by the company. The department encompasses Data Management, Programming, and Statistics, working cohesively to ensure the successful completion of both Randomized Controlled trials and Real-World evidence studies.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Statistician (6+ years of experience in a similar position) to join our Biometry Department and provide statistical leadership for late-stage clinical development programs, primarily phase IIb and phase III randomized controlled trials and activities supporting regulatory submissions.

The successful candidate will interact with Health Authorities and will play a central role in the design, execution, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of confirmatory clinical trials intended to provide robust evidence of efficacy and safety.

The position requires strong expertise in estimands, confirmatory testing strategies, missing data, sensitivity analyses, multiplicity control, safety and efficacy integrated analyses, and regulatory submissions.

The successful candidate will be agile and adaptable, capable of working in a matrix-organized environment where collaboration across Data Management, Programming, and Statistics is essential.

Your role within a pioneering company in full expansion:

• Participate in the conception and design of phase IIb and phase III randomized controlled trials, providing expert statistical support for study design, sample size determination, randomization, endpoint selection, estimand definition, and confirmatory testing strategies.
• Lead the statistical definition and justification of primary and key secondary endpoints, analysis populations, intercurrent event strategies, missing data approaches, sensitivity analyses, and multiplicity adjustments.
• Contribute to the design and statistical oversight of interim analyses, Independent Data Monitoring Committees, adaptive confirmatory designs, and event-driven analyses, where applicable.
• Act as the primary point of contact internally and externally for all statistical aspects of assigned projects and studies, attending project/study meetings and offering statistical guidance.
• Draft and/or validate key study documents such as synopses, protocols, CRFs, data review plans, statistical analysis plans, statistical results, study reports and other study-level documents while ensuring timely deliverables.
• Program and/or validate statistical analyses using SAS and/or R
• Collaborate with clinicians to interpret results, develop key messages, and communicate findings to clinical and regulatory partners.
• Contribute to the development of submission strategies and statistical content for regulatory dossiers submitted to agencies such as EMA, FDA, and PMDA
• Coordinate the production of integrated summaries and pooled analyses of efficacy and safety, ensuring consistency across studies, endpoints, and populations
• Support regulatory inspections, submission readiness activities, and the traceability of statistical decisions and deliverables
• Work with clinicians and medical writers to prepare Response to Questions from regulatory agencies (EMA / FDA / PMDA / …), summaries of results for regulatory documents and scientific articles.
• Contribute to the selection and evaluation of CROs, establishing clear requirements and evaluating proposals.
• Oversee the review of statistical documents within the team and supervise operational activities outsourced to CROs ensuring adherence to cost, timeline, and data quality requirements.
• Follow all industry standards, including ensuring that all statistical related documentation is included in the electronic Trial Master File (eTMF).

Your skills at the service of innovative projects:

• Advanced degree in Statistics (Master's Degree, ENSAI, ISUP, or PhD) or a related field.
• A minimum of 6 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry or a Contract Research Organization (CRO), with significant involvement in clinical trial development from the outset.
• Strong experience in the design, analysis, and reporting of phase IIb and/or phase III randomized controlled trials.
• Experience contributing to regulatory submissions, responses to regulatory authorities, or integrated efficacy and safety analyses is highly desirable.
• Strong experience in oncology clinical trials.

Mandatory Skills

• Advanced statistical analysis skills
• Proficiency in at least one of the following two statistical software: SAS or R
• Strong expertise in pivotal Phase III development, registration activities and regulatory strategy
• Strong knowledge of confirmatory clinical trial methodology, including estimands, multiplicity control, missing data methods, sensitivity analyses, interim analyses, and interpretation of efficacy and safety results
• Experience supporting global regulatory submissions and health-authority interactions.
• Experience with integrated summaries of efficacy and safety.
• Experience supporting Independent Data Monitoring Committees or interim analyses.
• Strong knowledge of international scientific and regulatory guidelines (ICH, EMA, FDA, etc.).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Optional Skills

• Familiarity with adaptive confirmatory designs
• Familiarity with CDISC standards and submission-ready clinical data packages
• Experience with real world evidence (RWE) studies
• Familiarity with biomarker data and its applications in randomized controlled trials designs

Terms of Employment

• Full-time position.
• Work location: On-site at either Toulouse (Langlade) or Boulogne, with the possibility of working from home up to 2 days per week.
• We offer an attractive remuneration/benefits package:
• Incentives
• Profit-sharing
• Pierre Fabre shareholding with matching contribution
• Health and provident insurance
• 16 days of holidays (RTT) in addition to 25 days of personal holidays
• Public transport participation

The Head of the Biometry Department is Guillaume Desachy. We look forward to welcoming a new member to our dedicated and innovative team at Pierre Fabre.