Lead Associate Director of Statistical Programming

Novartis; East Hanover (NJ); On-site; USD 145,600 - 270,400; Full time

Job summary

Novartis in East Hanover, USA seeks an Associate Director Statistical Programmer to lead a community of programmers across global studies. The role drives innovation, quality, and efficiency in drug development while enabling timely insights for patients, technology adoption, and strategy alignment.

Must have leadership in statistical programming within Drug Development, experience with GCP, and a track record of managing multiple trials.

Qualifications

• University or college degree in life science, computer science, data science, pharmacy, statistics, nursing or equivalent relevant degree.
• Proven leadership, collaboration and organizational skills with demonstrated ability to successfully manage simultaneous trials and meet deadlines.
• Excellent understanding of clinical trials methodology, GCP and medical terminology.
• Must be able to anticipate challenges and risks and proactively suggest/implement solutions.
• Ability to work under pressure demonstrating agility through effective and innovative team leadership.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and proven ability to operate effectively in a global environment. Foster a team environment that values learning, adaptability, and continuous improvement. Ability to influence and communicate across functions and to external stakeholders.
• Experience in Drug Development with experience in Statistical Programming.
• Management or leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead statistical programming activities as a Lead/Program Programmer for large projects globally or locally across clinical studies.
• Coordinate activities of programmers internally or externally; develop programming strategy and scientific documentation with Biostatisticians.
• Potentially act as functional manager of local/global associates and provide supervision on programming processes.
• Build relationships with cross-functional teams and summarize deliverables, timelines, scope and resources.
• Develop programming strategy to standardize across studies; adopt R packages, R Shiny, and version control to support reproducible workflows.
• Ensure timely and quality development and validation of all statistical programming components; audit readiness of deliverables.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Organizational skills

Drug development

Statistical programming

Global environment

Education

Life science/Statistics related degree

Tools

R (incl. Tidyverse)

R Shiny

Git (version control)

Job description

Novartis in East Hanover, USA seeks an Associate Director Statistical Programmer to lead a community of programmers across global studies. The role drives innovation, quality, and efficiency in drug development while enabling timely insights for patients, technology adoption, and strategy alignment.

Must have leadership in statistical programming within Drug Development, experience with GCP, and a track record of managing multiple trials.