Make your mark for patients
We are looking for a Senior Principal Statistician to join us in our Biometrics & Data Science team, based in any of our Brussels (Belgium), Monheim (Germany) or Slough (UK) offices.
About the role
You will lead as the strong voice for Early Development Statistics, helping drive the development of UCB compounds, providing statistical expertise in technical areas such as clinical pharmacology, pre-clinical statistics and or biomarker strategy and bioassay development.
Who you’ll work with
You will report into the Head of Early Development Statistics or a technical area leader in her team (Translational Statistics lead, or Clinical Pharmacology Statistics Lead)
What you’ll do
1. Provide direction and continuous leadership of the Early Development Statistics team – for compounds under development, via an expert area such as clinical pharmacology statistics, pre-clinical, biomarker and or bioassay development.
2. Lead and influence the translation of strategy to tactical planning, operations, and quality
3. Contribute to strategic planning of the non-clinical and or clinical development plan, including study designs, design of experiments, analysis plans, quantitative decision criteria, exploratory analysis etc.
4. May oversee more junior statisticians, to ensure operational delivery of statistical outputs, for clinical or non-clinical studies.
5. Work closely with relevant stakeholders in the team, such as research lead, biomarker lead, bioassay development lead or quantitative clinical pharmacology lead, in alignment with statistics leaders such as Project Lead Statistician, translational statistician, or clinical pharmacology statistician.
6. Help lead the continuous learning and upskilling culture for a modern Biometrics (statistics) organization
Interested? For this position you’ll need the following education, experience and skills:
7. MSc. Or Ph.D. in Biostatistics or Statistics, or equivalent
8. More than 5 years in the pharmaceutical industry;
9. Solid knowledge of drug development across all phases.
10. Experience in Early Development, in at least one technical area (pre-clinical, translational (biomarker/bioassay), or clinical-pharmacology)
11. Understands how the functional expertise and contributions fit into the bigger picture
12. Influencer and collaborator in a development team environment
13. Good communication skills
14. Programming skills in R or SAS
Are you ready to ‘go beyond’ to create value and make your mark for patients? If this sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you!