Statistics & Analytics Lead — Diabetes Care Impact

Abbott; Witney; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Structured development and career-prog

Opportunity to lead a statistical team

Impact on diabetes care innovation

Job summary

Abbott’s Diabetes Care team in Witney is seeking a Statistics & Analysis Manager to provide technical and people leadership across Clinical and R&D projects. You will lead a team of statisticians and analysts, shaping statistical strategy, allocating resources, and ensuring high-quality analyses to support product development and regulatory submissions.

You will build capability within the team, develop talent, and foster a high-performance culture while ensuring statistical excellence across

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in Statistics, Mathematics or a related technical discipline.
• Proven experience leading and managing technical teams, including responsibility for performance management, coaching, mentoring and employee development.
• Demonstrated people leadership experience, with a track record of building, developing and retaining high-performing teams.
• Strong expertise in statistics, analysis and performance measurement gained within a commercial, scientific or technical environment.
• Experience managing multiple priorities and delivering results through a team.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence decision-making and communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working within a regulated or operationally complex environment, such as medical devices, pharmaceuticals, healthcare or manufacturing, is advantageous.
• Experience using SAS or other statistical analysis software is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate statistical support across Clinical and R&D programmes, ensuring quality, consistency and compliance.
• Manage, coach and develop a team of statisticians and analysts, providing guidance, feedback and career development support.
• Drive team performance through effective goal setting, performance management and development planning.
• Allocate and manage statistical resources across multiple projects, balancing priorities and business needs.
• Support new product development through robust experimental design, data analysis and interpretation.
• Ensure analyses, reports and sampling plans meet internal standards, regulatory requirements and industry best practice.
• Provide statistical and clinical input into regulatory submissions and interactions with regulatory bodies.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to influence strategy and support critical business decisions.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement within statistical methodologies, processes and team capability.
• Contribute to recruitment, onboarding and succession planning activities to support the continued growth of the statistics function.

Skills

Team leadership

Statistical analysis

Regulatory submissions

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Education

Degree in Statistics or Mathematics

Tools

SAS

Job description

Abbott’s Diabetes Care team in Witney is seeking a Statistics & Analysis Manager to provide technical and people leadership across Clinical and R&D projects. You will lead a team of statisticians and analysts, shaping statistical strategy, allocating resources, and ensuring high-quality analyses to support product development and regulatory submissions.

You will build capability within the team, develop talent, and foster a high-performance culture while ensuring statistical excellence across