Associate Director, Statistics

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Job Description

Are you looking for a patient-focused, innovation-driven company that will inspire you and empower you to shine? Join us as an Associate Director, Statistics in our Cambridge, MA office.

At Takeda, we are transforming the pharmaceutical industry through our R&D-driven market leadership and being a values-led company. To do this, we empower our people to realize their potential through life-changing work. Certified as a Global Top Employer, we offer stimulating careers, encourage innovation, and strive for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our global teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

Here, you will be a vital contributor to our inspiring, bold mission.

POSITION OBJECTIVES:

The purpose of this position is to provide data science expertise by:

• Providing statistical support in the design, analysis, and interpretation of preclinical studies to enable quantitative decision making from target identification through lead optimization
• Contributing statistical modeling expertise to cross-functional project teams, working closely with colleagues from Discovery biology, translational research, and partner lines
• Effectively working with and gleaning insights from a wide variety of data sources, from standard in-vitro & in-vivo assays to complex imaging data or sensor data
• Applying state-of-the-art data science methodologies (taken from statistics, machine learning, and AI) and fit-for-purpose statistical analysis in support of Discovery efforts from projects start through all stages towards IND.

POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Serve as global statistical lead for preclinical statistics across therapeutic areas.
• Play a leadership role in development and completion of major data analysis deliverables and milestones in collaboration with other functions.
• Drive/participate in development and implementation of global systems, processes and standards to maximize quality and efficiency.
• Provide or identify internal and external statistical expertise and capacity to support development activities.
• Assess, communicate and propose solutions for internal, external resource and/or quality issues that may impact deliverables/timeline at the program level. 
• Contribute to representing data science function on project teams in support of pre-clinical and clinical studies and compound level programs.
• Perform end-to-end data analyses, from hypotheses formulation, experimental design, writing analysis plans, data cleaning, executing analysis, and preparing reports and documentation.
• Strengthen Takeda’s advanced analytics toolkit by identifying and applying emerging techniques, as well as by developing novel analysis tools as needed. 
• Collaborate effectively within a matrix environment, working with scientists in various therapeutic and computational areas to understand disease biology and to tailor data analysis to program-specific needs. 
• Work closely with Takeda statisticians to ensure statistical issues in data analysis are addressed.
• Communicate internal and external resource and quality issues that may impact deliverables or timelines of the program.  Escalate issues to management as appropriate in a timely manner.
• Increase the external recognition of Takeda’s data science work by participating in conferences, publishing work and developing external collaborations.

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