Clinical Biostatistician

Job description

Nombre del sítio: UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage, Belgium-Wavre, Home Worker - GBR, Home Worker - USA, USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence
Fecha de publicación: Feb 19 2024

We are looking for a Clinical Biostatistician to join our Speciality and Primary Care Statistics team.

Statisticians are highly prized and urgently needed at GSK to grow an industry-leading team who put quantitative rocket boosters under every project we touch and transform the pace, scale and success with which our company serves the patients who rely on us.  We need exceptionally talented and committed Statisticians like you to apply your statistical skills and innovative statistical methodology to drive key contributions to the research and development of new medicines and vaccines in our three clinical areas: Oncology, Speciality and Primary Care (our non-oncology therapy areas) and Vaccines. 

Speciality and Primary Care Statistics is proud to support drug development efforts in Immunology, Hepatology, Gastro-intestinal, Renal, Respiratory, Cardiovascular, Neuroscience, Infectious Diseases, HIV, and Global Health (which covers infectious diseases like malaria and TB that impact the developing world).

Join our team of industry-leading statistician experts in data analysis and methodologic research in embedding quantitative decision-making to take smart risks and improve the probability of study and program success. Our end-to-end project support model ensures that our clinical statisticians collaborate across the entire range of clinical drug development, from early clinical development, to registration, approval, and marketed product support.  We have individual contributor career opportunities across a range of experience levels from entry-level to industry-experienced biostatisticians.

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.

We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.

Discover more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK on our webpage Life at GSK | GSK

In this role you will

·  Provide statistical input to the design, analysis, reporting and interpretation of clinical studies.
·  Influence clinical development plans, regulatory and commercial strategies.
·  Build and maintain effective strategic working relationships with internal and external partners to meet business needs.
·  Identify, develop and implement novel statistical methodologies in support of medicines and vaccines development.
·  Have the opportunity to work across the entire range of drug development, from early clinical development, to registration and marketed product support due to our end-to-end project support model.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

·  MSc (or equivalent) in statistics or related field
·  Practical understanding of statistical modelling and its application to real world clinical problems.
·  Track record of strong performance as a biostatistician in an academic or industry setting.
·  Demonstrated experience working effectively in a team setting.
·  Strong time management and prioritization skills.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:

·  PhD (or equivalent) in Statistical discipline
·  Relevant experience as a statistician in a clinical trial setting in the Pharmaceutical Industry
·  Experience with Bayesian methods
·  Expertise and practical application in multiple statistical methodologies including Longitudinal Modelling, Causal Inference, Machine Learning or Large-Language Models
·  Therapy area expertise, depending on role
·  Capable of applying innovative statistical thinking
·  Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with;
·  Capability in building and maintaining strong working relationships in a team setting
·  Demonstrated ability to explain novel and standard methods to scientific and clinical colleagues.
·  Strong influencing skills applied effectively across functions and levels of an organization
·  Track record of strong statistical contributions and accomplishments in clinical drug development, with a broad knowledge of all phases of drug development (pre-clinical; Phase I-IV).
·  Experience of working with and coordinating the work of CROs.

Closing Date for Applications – 4th March 2024 (COB)

Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert. 

When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

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