Senior Biostatistics Lead — Global Clinical Trials

Cytel; Jackson (MS); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Cytel is seeking an Associate Director of Biostatistics to provide statistical leadership for major pharma client trials, embedded as a staff extension. You will influence development plans and protocols, apply advanced methods, and ensure regulatory-compliant outputs.

You will collaborate across clinical, data management, programming, and other teams, utilize SAS/R, and guide CRO activities where needed. PhD is preferred and 7+ years in pharma/biotech trials is expected.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Statistics or related quantitative discipline; PhD preferred.
• 7+ years of experience supporting clinical trials in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry.
• Solid recent experience (≥3 years) in Phase II–III studies, including SAP development, sample size calculation, and TLF review.
• Strong knowledge of adaptive design, group sequential and statistical methods of count data.
• Prior experience on Hematology studies preferred.
• Good understanding of the drug development process and cross-functional interfaces and experience supporting end-to-end trial delivery.
• Working knowledge of EMA/FDA/ICH guidelines and regulatory expectations for clinical trials and submissions.

Responsibilities

• Lead statistical activities for assigned Clinical Trials (mainly Phases 3) independently from protocol design to reporting of results.
• Represent Statistics function on cross-functional trial teams and collaborate effectively with all cross-functional stakeholders.
• Oversight of internal programming activities and/or CRO contributions on assigned clinical trials and other activities.
• Contribute to or lead other activities from a statistical perspective as appropriate, including database lock and submission activities, safety reporting, adhoc requests and respond to regulatory questions.
• Collaborate closely with clinical, data management, programming, and other stakeholders to develop and finalize study outputs in line with regulatory and protocol requirements.
• Use SAS and/or R for purposes like QC of datasets and deliverables, inferential statistical analyses, modelling/simulation, exploratory analyses etc.
• Coordinate statistical activities across studies within the assigned project, ensuring alignment of objectives, consistency of approach, and on-time delivery.

Skills

Statistical analysis

Communication

Project management

Independent work

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Master's degree in Statistics

PhD preferred

Tools

SAS

R

SAP

Job description

Cytel is seeking an Associate Director of Biostatistics to provide statistical leadership for major pharma client trials, embedded as a staff extension. You will influence development plans and protocols, apply advanced methods, and ensure regulatory-compliant outputs.

You will collaborate across clinical, data management, programming, and other teams, utilize SAS/R, and guide CRO activities where needed. PhD is preferred and 7+ years in pharma/biotech trials is expected.