Senior Director* Biostatistics (Infectious Diseases)
BioNTech SEAbout the role
Open for hire at one of the following locations – Gaithersburg, London, Mainz K1. - Job ID: 5036
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Senior Director* Biostatistics (Infectious Diseases)
Your main responsibilities are:
- Represent Statistics in all assigned cross-functional clinical study teams and other projects and holds him/herself accountable for all statistical aspects
- Serve as the biostatistics lead core team member for all assigned programs
- Represent Statistics in multiple projects of cross-functional process and standards development/ improvements, and infrastructures initiatives and evaluations
- Work as part of a collaborative, cross-functional team with members from other disciplines
- Provide statistical guidance into clinical development plans, clinical study protocols, clinical study reports, regulatory submission documents, and publications ensuring accurate deliverables
- Perform and/or verify sample size calculations
- Lead development of statistical analysis plans and TLFs, perform statistical analyses and validate analysis results
- Participate in planning for health authority meetings, development of associated documents, and the preparation of associated responses
- Oversee outsourced statistical CRO activities and deliverables ensuring highest quality and in a timely manner
- Support and participate in the development of departmental strategies, and cross functional initiatives on standards/ infrastructures/ processes
- Support and assist GBS Lead in both strategy developments and operations
- Assumes possible line management responsibilities of staff and is responsible for recruiting, developing, and retaining talent
- Provide guidance to Statistical Programmers on SDTM/ADaM and TLFs specifications development and programming
- Provide input to database requirements and work closely with Clinical Data Manager to ensure data quality standards are met
What you have to offer:
- PhD or Masters in (Bio)Statistics, Mathematics or equivalent
- Minimum 15 years (18 years for masters) in the pharmaceutical industry and/or CRO
- At least 10 years of work/ leadership experience, overseeing statistics staff (internal as well as outsourced) and in representing Biostatistics in a matrix organization and in a multidisciplinary team
- Experiences in planning, conducting and analyses of Infectious Diseases trials from phase I-IV, including scientific publications
- Experience in leading to answer health authority questions (FDA, EMA) and leading in statistics on regulatory submissions, including developing ISE/ISS packages
- Excellent knowledge and experience of clinical development, study designs, advanced statistical methods (adaptive design and/
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