Senior Biostatistician in Macclesfield

Job Title: Senior Biostatistician – Global Biopharmaceutical

Contract: 12-month contract

Hours: 40 per week

Location: Macclesfield (Remote)

Salary: £72.

83 (PAYE) or £77.

73 (Umb) per hour

SRG are working with a Global Biopharmaceutical company to help them find a Senior Biostatistician to join their busy team.

The Biostatistics Contractor is a delivery focused role working under the leadership, oversight and direction of assigned Supervisor, responsible for activities relating to design, delivery and interpretation, preclinical studies, regulatory submissions and/or commercialisation.

The position requires sufficient experience working as a statistician in the pharmaceutical industry, to be able to independently perform and/or lead statistical work within a study, multiple studies, indication, or be recognised as a methodology expert.

This individual is able to support and/or lead work either in house or partnering externally to ensure delivery to standards, quality and time.

Key Responsibilities will include:

• May serve as a supporting or lead statistician for a study, multiple studies, indication within a project (potentially as a Global Product Statistician) or a project-level activity, such as a regulatory or payer submission, responsible for statistical elements of the design, analysis, interpretation and/or reporting,
• Quantifies the benefit, risk, value and uncertainty of the emerging asset/product profile,
• Develops design options and provides high quality deliverables to support the business in making informed decisions,
• Contributes to statistical methodology advances by identifying new opportunities, investigating and applying novel statistical approaches, including modelling and simulation,
• Ensures high quality is built into own and other statisticians’ deliverables,
• Ensures compliance with standards and external regulations,
• Contributes to the development of best practices to improve quality, efficiency and effectiveness within function,
• Plans and supports Team’s project activities and tasks,
• Communicates and escalates risks within the assigned studies and/or projects,
• Collaborates internally and externally, to ensure delivery to standards, quality and time

Candidate Requirements:

• MSc/PhD in Statistics or Mathematics (containing a substantial statistical component) with experience in pharma industry.
• Good SAS programming skills.
• Thorough knowledge of the technical and regulatory requirements related to the role.
• Experience in the study and/or program design, development, data analysis and interpretation, as well as regulatory interactions and/or submissions.
• Ability to proactively manage concurrent activities within a study or project.
• Ability to apply novel statistical methods to problem solving.
• Ability to manage relevant documentation.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to build strong internal and external relationships.