Hobson Prior are looking for a Principal Statistician to join a leading biopharmaceutical company who purely concentrate on neurology and immunology. This position will be on a permanent basis located in Slough with 2 days homebased.

Job Responsibilities:

• Represents as the lead biostatistician for one or more clinical studies within a clinical program or across multiple clinical programs.
• Partakes in protocol development if this is not delegated to an external partner biostatistician.
• Gives input into the study design, efficacy and safety parameters and the planned statistical analyses.
• Performs simulations to support choice of study design, decision rules and the sample size.
• Reviews and approves the protocol prepared by the external partner biostatistician.
• Supports or overseas external partner biostatistical support for all statistical operational aspects of the clinical trial, covering trial set up, trial delivery and the readout of results.
• Communicates and coordinates all statistical activities with external partner biostatisticians.
• Ensuring the implementation of global, program and SSI standards by all biostatisticians contributing to the project.
• Delivers input on interpretation of results by attending and presenting at the Results Interpretation Meeting.
• Reviews and inputs into the clinical study report.
• Assists the Project Lead Statistician with the statistical deliverables for regulatory submissions and the lifecycle of a development compound.
• Serve as a biostatistician lead for a program of studies, as agreed to by their line manager.

Key Skills:

• Able to provide training of statistical topics to biostatisticians and to explain statistics topics in a non-technical manner to non-statisticians.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Able to work under pressure and without supervision.
• Able to drive and influence teams to ensure evidence-based decisions are made.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.

Requirements:

• You will have a PhD with 5+ years of experience.
• A master's degree with 7+ years of experience.
• Good knowledge of SAS and/or R programming.
• 5-7 years of biostatistics experience within the Biotechnology and/or Pharmaceutical Industry (including clinical research organizations) or relevant academic role with proven successful track record in pharmaceutical development.
• Excellence in a variety of relevant statistical methodologies.
• Excellent knowledge in visualization and simulation techniques.
• Ablility to travel both, domestically and internationally, as business necessitates.

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