Director, Scientific Programming

BeOne continues to grow at a rapid pace with challenging and exciting opportunities for experienced professionals. When considering candidates, we look for scientific and business professionals who are highly motivated, collaborative, and most importantly, share our passionate interest in fighting cancer.

General Description:

The Director, Statistical Programming Product Lead / TA Head will be responsible for a therapeutic area and support multiple drug development programs. The incumbent will manage a group of project leads who lead the global development of the therapeutic area in scope and provide guidance and supervision for the successful completion of all programming deliverables.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with lead project Biostatistician in project strategic planning and provide overall guidance to the programming team in creation, implementation, and maintenance of programming development plans for each project accounting for timelines, resources, and quality deliverables for all project work assigned; ensure that all programming has been carried out per industry and internal standard practice.

• Represent the statistical programming team at Study Management Team and Clinical Development meetings to address deliverables and timelines.

• Lead or contribute to the development and implementation of programming resource algorithm.

• Collaborate with managers, responsible and accountable for project resource planning and tracking.

• Collaborate with intelligent solutions team to develop and implement cutting-edge automation and innovation solutions for delivery and project management.

• Interact and communicate with Statisticians, Data Managers, Clinical Operations, Medical Monitors, Medical Writing, Medical Monitors, and other functions to address programming related study deliverables.

• Provide managerial support to one or more employees with overall responsibility of leading, training, and mentoring for effective performance.

• Provide strategies for programming related matters in submission to regulatory agencies, publications and other communications as needed.

• Understand and execute department-, product- and study-level macros and utilities. Write, test and validate product- and study-level macros and utilities.

• Provide expert guidance for programming group on complex programming tasks and/or standards.

• Assist in the review of key study-related documents produced by other functions, e.g. SAP, case report form, data management plan, database specifications, EDC data structures, DMC plans and other clinical documents.

• Oversee the projects for the creation of analysis datasets, production / validation of output, and review of annotated case report forms.

• Lead the statistical programming support of FDA/EMA/CDE regulatory submissions follow CDISC standards.

• Contribute to departmental process and standards initiatives such as tools and CDISC standards.

• Collaborate and support the selection and management of CROs (including the strategic outsourcing providers) conducting statistical programming.

• Oversee the work in support of clinical trials, ad-hoc analysis requests, data validation, etc. in accordance with all relevant statistical regulatory guidance and standards.

• Lead the development of TAUG (therapeutic area users guide) following industry and regulatory standards.

• Other duties as assigned.

Core Competencies, Knowledge and Skill Requirements:

• PC literacy required; MSOffice skills (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

• Knowledge of SDTM and ADaM standards, able to write CDISC standard dataset specifications and follow specifications to create SDTM and ADaM datasets (as needed)

• Computer programming using SAS

• Fundamentals of project planning and management

• Drug development process

Communication & Interpersonal Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to effectively collaborate in a dynamic environment

Significant Contacts:

• Interacts with project team members at all levels

Desired Background and Experience:

• Experience leading teams supporting FDA/EMA/CDE filings.

• Expert level knowledge and extensive hands-on experience of CDISC standards such as CDASH, SDTM, and ADaM

• Experience leading or working with centralized teams for Statistica