NEW! Principal Medical Affairs Biostatistician

Cytel; Honolulu (HI); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training and development support

Equal Employment Opportunity

Job summary

Cytel is seeking an experienced Principal Biostatistician to lead Phase I-IV clinical studies across our client region. You will work embedded with a pharmaceutical client, delivering advanced statistical methods and driving ownership and quality in analyses.

You will contribute to study design, analysis plans, data interpretation, and scientific reporting, collaborating across Medical Affairs, Regulatory, and Publications.

Qualifications

• PhD in Biostatistics or MS with at least 8 years pharmaceutical biostatistics experience.
• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills.
• Extensive SAS programming experience.
• Extensive experience working with clinical studies data.
• Experience with post-approval observational and clinical studies.
• Understanding of ICH GCP and industry practices.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with Medical Affairs and Regulatory to design post approval studies.
• Writes the statistical sections of study protocols, while consulting with internal and external experts.
• Contributes to or prepares Statistical Analysis Plans.
• Collaborates with Data Management on design of eCRFs.
• Provides statistical guidance on conduct of ongoing studies.
• Accountable for collaboration with Statistical Programming to implement analyses.
• Contributes to observational study reports and regulatory documents.
• Contributes to scientific articles and presentations.
• Reviews abstracts and manuscripts for publications.

Skills

SAS programming

R programming

CDISC standards

Statistical methods

Communication

Presentation skills

Education

PhD in Biostatistics

MS in Biostatistics with 8+ years pharma experience

Tools

SAS

R

CDISC (SDTM/ADaM/CDASH)

Job description

Who Are You?

An experienced Principal Biostatistician with a passion for clinical development and analysis, adept at utilizing advanced statistical methods, you will lead one Phase I-IV clinical studies across your region. You are excited and enthusiastic, motivate your teams to do great work and collaborate easily with your clients. You never settle for what is but always push clinical development forward to what it could be. You motivate others to do the same.

Sponsor-dedicated:

Working fully embedded within one of our pharmaceutical clients, with the support of Cytel right behind you, you'll be at the heart of our client's innovation. As a Biostatistician you will be dedicated to one of our global pharmaceutical clients; a company that is driving the next generation of patient treatment, where individuals are empowered to work with autonomy and ownership. This is an exciting time to be a part of this new program.

Position Overview:

As Medical Affairs Biostatistician, you are responsible for statistical activities in support of Medical Affairs, including contributing to post approval study designs, study protocol and analysis plan development, reviewing and interpreting the analysis of study data, and conducting ad hoc and exploratory analyses. You will have the opportunity to play an integral role helping our clients and the industry shape the future of drug development. Work in an environment designed for an entrepreneurial minded person with a lot of energy, ideas and courage for their implementation.

• Collaborates with Medical Affairs (Medical Research and Value, Evidence & Strategy), Medical Communications and Publications, Epidemiology and Regulatory to design post approval studies.


• Writes the statistical sections of study protocols, while consulting with internal and external experts.


• Contributes to or prepares statistical analysis plans.


• Collaborates with Data Management and Medical Research on design of eCRFs.


• Provides statistical guidance on conduct of ongoing studies.


• Accountable for the collaboration with Statistical Programming to implement statistical analysis of all clinical trial, registry, observational and non-interventional data supporting Medical Affairs needs.


• Contributes observational study reports and regulatory documents, e.g., DSURs, briefing documents, etc.


• Contributes to scientific articles, summarizing data collected in studies.


• Participates in other activities and meetings to support Biostatistics and the Medical Affairs team as needed.


• Reviews abstracts, manuscripts for publications and presentations.

Here at Cytel we want our employees to succeed and we enable this success through consistent training, development and support. To be successful in this position you will have:

• PhD in Biostatistics, Statistics, or equivalent with at least 5 years pharmaceutical biostatistics experience; or MS with at least 8 years' relevant experience.


• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills.


• Extensive experience programming in SAS.


• Extensive experiences working on data analysis with clinical studies database.


• Experience working on post-approval observational and clinical studies.


• Understanding of ICH GCP as well as general knowledge of industry practices and standards.


• Experiences in R programming language and other statistical software.


• Experience with CDISC, including SDTM, ADaM, CDASH.

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