Senior Director, Statistics

Job Description

Do you have expertise in Statistics and a passion for Drug Development? Would you like to apply your expertise to impact late-stage drug development in a company that frontiers the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? Then AstraZeneca and Late R&I Biometrics might the match for you.

Location: Boston, MA

Recognizing the importance of individualized flexibility, our ways of working allow employees to balance personal and work commitments while ensuring we continue to create a strong culture of collaboration and teamwork by engaging face-to-face in our offices 3 days a week.

What You'll Do:

• Lead manage and develop a group of statisticians

• Work according to agreed functional and regional SHE strategy by ensuring proper management of SHE risks, incidents, reporting, follow-up and improvements

• Leadership to biometrics staff world-wide

• Ensures drug projects are successfully delivered by leading biometrics support and strategy. This includes Development Plans, Regulatory Strategy and Submissions, high level internal governance committees, Health Technology Assessment and Reimbursement/Payer and Commercial support as appropriate for the stage of the product.

• Leadership to staff on the product world-wide so that all work is carried out with regards to AZ standards and external regulations.

• Develop contacts with international and external opinion leaders, consultants and collaborative groups.

• Develop strategy & actionable plans for addressing future business needs

• Identify & drive the development & utilisation of leading-edge statistical methodology, skills, capabilities, tools, processes & best practice, in order to add value to drug development

• Deliver overall analytics strategy, and provide senior level technical expertise regarding statistical capabilities & solutions

• Develop statistical innovation skill & staff, including recruitment

• Develop collaborative relationships with the external scientific/academic community

• Steer and support the development and maintenance of required tools and processes that meets regulatory and evidential requirements

Essential for the role:

• MSc/PhD in Statistics, Mathematics (containing a substantial statistical component), or recognised equivalent to stats MSc

• Track record of background in leading independently

• In depth knowledge of technical/regulatory requirements with experience in pharm/healthcare

• Exemplary technical skills

• Excellent communication skills and ability to build strong relationships

Desirable for the role

• Managerial experience
• Excellent collaboration required – needs the energy to work across global & functional boundaries both internally and externally
• Vision – keen awareness of R&D priorities in order to apply novel solutions to scientific problems
• Travel – willingness to travel domestically & internationally

Date Posted

07-Jun-2024

Closing Date

20-Jun-2024Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion, starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of characteristics. We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best. If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations, please complete the section in the application form.

AstraZeneca requires all US employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 but will consider requests for reasonable accommodations as required by applicable law.