Senior Scientist, Statistical Programmer (multiple openings)
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Job Description
Responsibilities:
Support statistical programming activities for clinical development projects.
This may include leadership of one or more products.
Develop and execute statistical study and report deliverables ranging from individual clinical trials to world-wide regulatory application submissions.
Design and maintain statistical datasets that support multiple stakeholder groups.
Collaborate with statistics and other project stakeholders in ensuring project plans are executed efficiently with timely and high-quality deliverables.
Serve as statistical programming point of contact and knowledge holder through the entire product lifecycle.
Develop effective study and report programming and validation utilizing global and Therapeutic Areas standards and following departmental SOPs and good programming practices.
Maintain and manage a project plan including resource forecasting.
Coordinate activities of a global programming team.
Participate in departmental strategic initiative teams.
Requirements:
Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Life Sciences, Computer Engineering, or a related field and 3 years of experience in the position offered or related.
Bachelor’s degree in any of the above fields and 5 years of experience in the position offered or related also accepted.
Experience must include 3 years in the following: SAS programming in a clinical trial environment, including data steps, procedures, SAS/MACRO, SAS/GRAPH, SAS systems and database expertise; designing and developing complex programming algorithms; comprehending analysis plans which describe methodologies to be programmed; applying clinical data management concepts; CDISC and ADaM standards; process compliance and deliverable quality; and developing analysis and reporting deliverables for Research and Development projects, including data, tables, graphics, and listings.
Employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as customer-facing commercial, or research-based roles, will be expected to comply not only with Company policy but also with policies established by such external stakeholders (for example, a requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access a facility or meet with stakeholders). Please understand that, as permitted by applicable law, if you have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and an essential function of your job is to call on external stakeholders who require vaccination to enter their premises or engage in face-to-face meetings, then your employment may pose an undue burden to business operations, in which case you may not be offered employment, or your employment could be terminated. Please also note that, where permitted by applicable law, the Company reserves the right to require COVID-19 vaccinations for positions, such as in Global Employee Health, where the Company determines in its discretion that the nature of the role presents an increased risk of disease transmission.
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