Principal Biostatistician (Medical Affairs - North America & Europe)

Principal Biostatistician (Medical Affairs - North America & Europe)

Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.  

Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do. We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to not only make Syneos Health easier to work with, but to make us easier to work for.

Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to accelerate the delivery of therapies, because we are passionate to change lives.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know: 

WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE

Why Syneos Health

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people. 
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong. 

Job Responsibilities

**Previous lead experience within Medical Affairs is required.

*Must be in Europe or North America

**PHD Required

 Serves as a statistical department resource, mentors biostatisticians on job skills, oversees or 
develop training plans or materials for Biostatistics associates. Conducts training sessions, or 
otherwise trains new hires and enhance the skills of existing personnel.
• Prepares Statistical Analysis Plans (SAPs), including development of well-presented mock-up 
displays for tables, listings, and figures. Collaborates with sponsor, if required.
• Responsible for the statistical aspects of the protocol, generation of randomization schedule, and 
input to the clinical study report.
• Reviews SAS annotated case report forms (CRFs), SAS database design, and other study 
documentation to ensure protocol criteria are met and all data is captured as required to support a 
high quality database and the planned analysis.
• Creates or reviews programming specifications for analysis datasets, tables, listings, and figures.
• Directs the activities of other biostatistics personnel on assigned projects to ensure timely 
completion of high quality work. Provides independent review of project work produced by other 
statisticians in the department.
• Implements company objectives, and create alternative solutions to address business and 
operational challenges.
• Serves as biostatistics representative on project teams, interfacing as necessary with other 
departmental project team representatives. This would include preparing in advance for internal 
meetings, contributing ideas, and demonstrating respect for opinions of others.
• Conducts and participates in verification and quality control of project deliverables, ensuring that 
output meets the expected results and is consistent with analysis described in SAP and 
specifications.
• Manages scheduling and time constraints across multiple projects, sets goals based on priorities 
from management, discusses time estimates for completion of study related activities with 
biostatistics management, adapts to timeline or priority changes by reorganizing daily workload, 
and proactively communicates to biostatistics management any difficulties with meeting these 
timelines. Monitor progress on study activities against agreed upon milestones and ensures the 
study timelines for project deliverables are met. Identifies out of scope tasks and escalates to 
management.
• Provides statistical programming support as needed.
• May participate in Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) and/or Data Monitoring Committee 
(DMC) activities, including charter development and serving as an independent non-voting 
biostatistician. May serve as a voting statistician on DSMBs and/or DMCs.
• Leads projects involving integrated analyses, attends regulatory agency meetings or respond to 
questions, as needed, to support the statistical analysis results of clinical trials on behalf of the 
sponsor.