Biostatistics Director, Oncology Biosimilars- US Remote

Amgen; United States; À distance; USD 180 000 - 250 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Amgen is seeking a Biostatistics Director to provide strategic statistical leadership across clinical development programs. You will influence design, analysis, and regulatory submissions while guiding a team of statisticians and coordinating with CROs.

The role requires advanced degree in biostatistics with extensive experience in pharmaceutical development, strong communication, and a track record of innovative methodological leadership.

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent in Biostatistics with extensive post-graduate experience.
• Advanced degree required for senior leadership in biotechnology.
• Strong knowledge of statistical design, analysis, and regulatory science.

Responsabilités

• Provide strategic statistical input across multiple products and therapeutic areas.
• Develop and maintain statistical excellence in design, analysis, and reporting for biosimilar development.
• Review regulatory documents, study protocols, SAPs, CSRs, and submissions.
• Hire, develop, and mentor internal statisticians and manage CROs; oversee budgets and resources.
• Develop statistical strategy aligned with regulatory expectations and product development plans.
• Represent statistics in regulatory meetings and with key opinion leaders; ensure high-quality outputs.

Connaissances

Statistical leadership

Regulatory submissions

Effective communication

Adaptive designs

Innovation in methods

Formation

Doctorate degree in Biostatistics or related field

Master's degree in Biostatistics or related field

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Description du poste

Career Category

Research

Job Description

Join Amgen's Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you're part of something bigger, it's because you are. Our shared mission-to serve patients living with serious illnesses-drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we've helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world's toughest diseases. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline and portfolio of medicines to treat heart disease, obesity and obesity-related conditions, rare diseases, inflammatory conditions and cancer. As a member of the Amgen team, you'll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you'll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Biostatistics Director

What you will do

• Let's do this. Let's change the world. In this vital role, you will provide strategic statistical input and be responsible for all statistical aspects of clinical development from early to late phase for multiple products across different therapeutic areas.


• Develops and maintains successful application of statistical excellence in design, analysis, and reporting to all phases of biosimilar development across multiple products and therapeutic areas . Provides strategic statistical input and is a major contributor to clinical development plansstatistical input and contributing to clinical development plans.


• Reviews product and study level documents such as clinical development plans, regulatory documents, study synopses, protocols, statistical analysis plans (SAPs), flash memos, clinical study reports (CSRs), submission documents, correspondences with health authorities, and clinical publications


• Responsible for hiring, allocation, management, and development of internal statistical staff, and contributes to developing and managing goals, budgets and resource plans.


• Developing and execution of statistical strategy for clinical development programs ensuring standards, technical quality and consistent approaches in clinical development strategy, study design and statistical analysis while maintaining indication specific standards with respect to key variables, variable definitions, statistical methods, data structures and presentation of results.


• Ensuring excellent statistical input into regulatory strategies, presentations and scientific reports for clinical trial, regulatory submission, product defense, market support, scientific presentations/publications.


• Representing the statistical function at meetings with regulatory authorities, key opinion leaders and other specialist bodies and defending statistical approaches.


• Providing oversight and mentorship to Amgen staff members and CROs in completing study deliverables per agreed to timelines and quality standards.


• Supporting the development and review of Policies, SOPs and other controlled documents with CROs or within Amgen for process improvement and operational efficiency.


• Providing subject matter expertise in statistical methodologies, publishing applied research in scientific journals and books and making presentations on statistical methodology in the biopharmaceutical setting at external scientific meetings.


• Staying abreast of and contributing to scientific advances in the field and ensuring internal practices are current.


• Developing and maintaining long-term relationships with key statistical opinion leaders within academics, regulatory agencies and industry..

What we expect of you

Basic Qualifications

• Doctorate degree and 4 years of Biostatistics experience


• Master's degree and 8 years of Biostatistics experience


• Bachelor's degree and 10 years of Biostatistics experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's or Doctorate degree in Mathematics, Biostatistics or Statistics


• Ten years post-graduate statistical experience in the pharmaceutical industry or medical research organizations with a deep knowledge of statistical methodology and applications within drug development, especially in the oncology therapeutic area.


• Knowledgeable of statistical methodology and applications within drug development


• Statistical leadership to regulatory submissions


• Effective communication and presentation skills including statistical strategy


• Demonstrated ability to drive innovation by implementing new methodologies and relevant statistical designs.


• Experience in statistical methodologies related to adaptive designs (e.g., group sequential design, adaptations to treatment arm selection design, Bayesian adaptive design) and/or