Site Name: USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence, GSK HQ, Stevenage, Waltham
Posted Date: Jan 24 2025
Clinical Statisticians are highly prized and urgently needed at GSK to grow an industry-leading team to ensure high quality quantitative reasoning is at the heart of every project in the portfolio. Our role is essential to ensure we maximize the use of every single data point available to efficiently determine translational strategies that are the foundation of our end-to-end clinical development plans. We need exceptionally talented and committed Statisticians like you to apply your statistical skills and innovative statistical methodology to drive key contributions to the development of new medicines.
The Oncology Clinical Development Statistics group have a Principal Statistician opportunity available to support assets within the Oncology disease area, providing statistical and strategic insight into the clinical development plan and design of end-to-end development strategies. This begins with early first in human trials, all the way through to late phase drug development. The team strive to use novel clinical trial designs and innovative statistical methodologies, including Bayesian techniques, to quantify risk across an entire program and enable smart decision making on where to invest to improve the probability of study and program success.
Key Responsibilities:
* Provide required statistical support to Project and Study Statisticians across the oncology team.
* Provide statistical input to the design, analysis, reporting and interpretation of clinical studies using a wide range of statistical approaches and/or applicable software (e.g. simulation, Bayesian methods, interim analysis strategies).
* Author statistical analysis plans and prepare statistical input to key documents and presentation material.
* Apply standard processes to tasks to ensure that deliverables are accurate, high quality and meet agreed timelines.
* Build and maintain effective strategic working relationships with internal and external partners to meet business needs.
* Identify, develop, and implement novel statistical methodologies in support of medicines development.
Basic Qualifications:
* PhD in Statistics or related discipline, or MS in Statistics or related discipline with 3+ years of experience working as a Statistician within a CRO, Clinical Trial, or Academic setting in the Pharmaceutical Industry.
* Experience implementing innovative methods, such as Adaptive Design, Machine Learning, and Trial Simulation using SAS, R or other professional software.
Preferred Qualifications:
* Practical understanding of Statistical Modelling and its application to Real World clinical problems.
* Experience with Bayesian methods.
* Expertise and practical application in multiple statistical methodologies.
* Self-motivated and independent worker.
* Strong time management skills; able to effectively organize and manage a variety of tasks across different projects.
* Capable of applying innovative statistical thinking.
* Track record of strong performance in an academic or industry setting.
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
* Capability in building and maintaining strong working relationships in a team setting.
* Demonstrated ability to explain novel and standard methods to scientific and clinical colleagues.
* Strong influencing skills applied effectively across functions and levels of an organization.
* Time management and prioritization skills.
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