Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100 countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

This position is for the head of our Statistical Science pillar, a specialist group that provides expert knowledge of advanced statistical methods and applications. As such you will provide the statistical thought leadership for the Statistical Science pillar, for the Biostatistics and Programming department, to other departments and to our clients.

As Statistical Science pillar head you will set the strategy and direction for the pillar including line management activities. This includes identifying and prioritising enterprise level activities and initiatives to be supported by Statistical Science, and – where necessary – determine how to develop the necessary skills and experience needed for that. Current areas of statistical focus are adaptive and other innovative designs, Bayesian statistics, estimands, complex missing data analysis approaches, simulations, causal inference and scientific surveillance, so you should be familiar with these concepts and their potential applications. In addition, you will coordinate business development activities for opportunities where key statistical considerations are important or where specialist statistical approaches are required or proposed. You will also oversee the statistical support of cross-functional consulting projects and collaborate closely with other statistical and data science groups within CRG and across Thermo Fisher Scientific, understanding where they have gaps in their knowledge and experience and identifying ways to provide relevant support.

You will also be part of the Senior Leadership Team within the Biostatistics & Programming department.

Expected qualifications - due to the scientific statistical leadership of this role the minimum education is a master’s degree or PhD in Statistics and 15 years experience and 8 years line management experience.

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000 colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory with PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

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