Biostatistician Manager

Emmes; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Emmes Group in Bengaluru, India is seeking a Biostatistician Manager to oversee statistical activities across clinical studies. You will lead a team of statisticians and SAS programmers, from study design to final reports, ensuring high-quality deliverables.

The role requires a Master’s or PhD in Statistics with 8+ years in clinical research, strong design of experiments, and fluency with SAS and/or R. You will collaborate with investigators and support regulatory submissions.

Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD in Statistics with 8+ years in clinical research.
• Strong design of experiments and statistical methods.
• Proficiency in SAS and/or R.
• Experience with clinical databases and data models.

Responsibilities

• Lead statistical activities across studies with statisticians and SAS programmers.
• Develop statistical analysis plans and programs for analyses.
• Ensure timely, high-quality deliverables for regulatory bodies.
• Collaborate with investigators and stakeholders across teams.
• Provide input on study design and interim analyses.

Skills

Biostatistics

Study design

Clinical research

Team leadership

Education

Master’s or PhD in Statistics

Tools

SAS

R

Job description

Overview

Biostatistician Manager

Be Part of One Team, One Purpose.

At Emmes Group, we’re shaping the future of clinical research—where human intelligence meets cutting-edge technology to drive meaningful advancements in healthcare. With over 47 years of scientific excellence, we’ve led groundbreaking research in cell and gene therapy, vaccines, infectious diseases, ophthalmology, rare diseases, and neuroscience.

Through our two business units—Emmes, a full-service CRO, and Veridix AI, our technology, data, and analytical solutions —we are modernizing clinical trials and accelerating the development of life-changing therapies.

We believe that every clinical breakthrough starts with people—people who are passionate, purpose-driven, and ready to make an impact. At Emmes Group, we bring People, Science, and Technology together to collaborate with our customers and deliver global health impact.

Our culture is built on integrity, collaboration, and innovation, ensuring that every challenge is met with perseverance and accountability.

Oversees statistical activities and deliverables across a project or platform of related clinical research studies, leads a team of Statisticians and SAS Programmers and ensures that statistical deliverables are completed in a timely manner and with high quality. Serves as a lead statistician on multiple clinical research studies, from the initial design stage all the way to final report writing and manuscript preparation.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with clinical investigators to determine study design.
• Writes sections of protocols that require statistical input; Applies novel, quantitative decision making techniques to improve study design, analytical approach.
• Reviews protocols and case report forms to ensure that protocol objectives are met, and standards are maintained.
• Generates treatment allocations in randomized clinical research studies and ensures proper implementation.
• Leads the project team’s development of statistical analysis plans and programs to perform analyses and display study data.
• Performs statistical analyses, writes and validates application programs.
• Implements data and safety monitoring reports to ensure participants safety.
• Develops metrics and generates quality control reports to optimize the performance of clinical sites and the coordinating center.
• Generates study reports to be distributed to internal and external monitoring committees and regulatory bodies.
• Develop and follow SOPs for validation of statistical analysis programs. Maintain high quality of the outputs.
• Develop macros and functions for repetitive statistical analysis programs etc.

Provide input to clinical study report / manuscript through statistical Interpretation of study results during interim, final reporting of the study. Support in results presentation to the DSMB, study teams etc.

• Participates in professional development activities both within and outside the company.
• Ensure timely and effective communication to all stakeholders. Coordinate with internal/external stakeholders/vendors and other functions (Medical Monitor, Data Managers, SAS programmers) within study team for smooth deliverables of study related documents.
• Maintains awareness of current statistical literature and researches new techniques.
• Contributes to departmental strategies and initiatives (India and Global).
• May contribute at governance board meetings (e.g. DSMB/SMC)
• Provides input on responses to audit/inspection questions and assists in completing CAPAs within agreed timelines.
• Uses networking skills to collaborate with peers or other functional groups (e.g. clinical, DM, IT, medical writing etc.)
• Supports recruitment activities
• May take line management activities

Qualifications

• Requires a master’s or PhD degree in Statistics with minimum of 8 years of clinical research experience.
• Strong understanding of design of experiments; Demonstrated proficiency with statistical methods and applications in clinical research.
• Demonstrates good understanding of biostatistics processes.
• Competent in SAS programming language and/or R.
• Expertise in state-of-the-art data manipulation and statistical methodology.
• Experience with clinical database technologies, data models and statistical programming.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks.
• Ability to work independently, as well as in a team environment.
• Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts, both written and oral.
• Demonstrated ability in enterprise thinking (e.g. analytical thinking and solutions beyond study level).
• Ability to communicates technical and complex approaches to peers and non-technical colleagues.

If you’re looking for a career where your work advances global health and where scientific excellence meets real-world impact, join us and be part of something bigger. One Team, One Purpose.