Description:

Position Summary

The Biostatistician role is responsible for supporting the Biostatistics and Epidemiology team on priority client projects. You will collaborate with senior management within the organization as well as key client leaders and stakeholders. The ideal candidate for this role has a complete understanding of the full research lifecycle, exceptional analytical skills, a background in clinical sciences, a passion for innovation, dependable and can work independently. Initiative, fortitude, and proper decision-making to independently lead staff as a team-first player.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and operational oversight to guide and orchestrate biostatistics and epidemiology functions through full study cycle from study ideation to dissemination of results with complete clinical relevancy to the hypothesis.

• Support both registry and study protocol designs and statistical analysis plans (SAPs) for longitudinal registry studies and publishing.

• Support key data management activities (e.g., data quality and enrichment, linking disparate data) to support internal processes and subscription reporting for external clients.

• Prior experience working within a relevant research organization/institution including pharmaceutical industry and/or regulatory agencies.

• Experience responding to requests from national regulatory agencies in the United States, Europe, or other countries relating to risk management planning, and/or design/implementation and reporting of post-marketing safety studies.

• Able to easily communicate statistical concepts to non-statistical audience.

• Collaborate and support team members on complex project deliverables.

• Able to act as project management support. Organize and lead meetings. Ensure on-time deliverables.

• Work closely with clinical product management and data management in the definition and delivery of projects.

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

• Work collaboratively with various stakeholders to gain consensus within the team and across multi-functional groups outside the Biostatics & Epidemiology group.

• Strong analytics and analytics visualization experience.

• A willingness to work outside their standard comfort zone working cross-functionally to deliver internally and/or external clients.

• Self-starter, self-sufficient and highly foreword-thinking in technical environment, thrives in fast paced start-up environment, professional maturity, and discrete.

• Excellent organizational and verbal/written communications skills.

Qualifications

• Masters in Biostatistics, Epidemiology or similar.

• Minimum 7 years of experience in analysis of clinical data required.

• Knowledge of oncology, rare diseases and medical sciences preferred.

• Prior established experience consulting and working with clinicians and pharmaceutical companies on research initiatives.

• Minimum 5 years of experience with R (and Python or SAS); working experience with R strongly preferred.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

At Actalent, diversity and inclusion are a bridge towards the equity and success of our people. DE&I are embedded into our culture through:

• Hiring diverse talent
• Maintaining an inclusive environment through persistent self-reflection
• Building a culture of care, engagement, and recognition with clear outcomes
• Ensuring growth opportunities for our people

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email actalentaccommodation@actalentservices.com for other accommodation options.