Requisition Number: 8135
Position Title: Senior Statistician
External Description:
Who we are
Worldwide Clinical Trials (Worldwide), a leading global contract research organization (CRO), works in partnership with biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies to create customized solutions that advance new medications – from discovery to reality. Anchored in our company’s scientific heritage, our dedicated therapeutic focus on cardiovascular, metabolic, neuroscience, oncology, and rare diseases, is applied to develop flexible plans and solve problems quickly for our customers.
Our talented team of 3,000+ professionals spans 60+ countries. We are united in cause with our customers to improve the lives of patients through new and innovative therapies.
What Biostatistics does at Worldwide
The Worldwide Biostatistics team is an experienced and diverse group of Biostatisticians who collaborate together as one team, both via regularly scheduled group meetings to discuss issues, and impromptu one-on-one discussions between colleagues to discuss a particular topic.
The Senior Biostatistician will perform the lead statistician role, lead the development of statistical design and analysis policies and provide expert consultancy across the stats function. As a Lead Biostatistician, you will work directly with the sponsor, study team, programmers, and others. We work with a lot of smaller biotech companies, whom often do not have an internal statistician, resulting in our Biostatistician(s) often having the opportunity to provide insight and robust statistical input to the design of protocols and statistical analysis, as well as interact and build relationships with external groups (e.g. DMCs, regulatory agencies, etc.…).
What you will do
1. Manage the statistics support to one or more projects/sponsor programs of work, ensuring that needs are fully met by expert and timely statistical consultancy and support.
What you will bring to the role
2. Must be computer literate and numerate with a proven ability to adapt to various computer systems
3. Hands-on expert level project statistician experienced in providing statistical leadership to projects within clinical research
4. Expert in a broad range of statistical applications across all phases (I to IV) of Clinical Research with a thorough knowledge of regulatory standards, SAS and other software applications.
Your experience
5. Experienced professional statistician with a minimum of an MSc in Statistics
6. Experienced in guiding/mentoring other statisticians
7. Previous experience of leading studies as a Statistician within clinical research