Principal Biostatistician

Cytel provides unrivaled biostatistics and operations research knowledge to our customers in the life sciences industries in the form of both software and services.  At Cytel, we work hard to create successful careers with significant professional growth for our employees, as a result of which they work hard to make Cytel successful. Cytel is a place where talent, experience and integrity come together to advance the state of clinical development

As Principal Biostatistician, adapt at utilizing advanced statistical methods, you will support or lead one or more Phase I-IV clinical studies. Experience of primarily leading medium complexity clinical trials (starting from Design to Archival experience) and supporting some project-level activities.

Summary of Job Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated experience in project leadership: project planning, interaction with different stakeholders, scientific   

  supervision of statisticians.

• Scientific leader: excellent knowledge and experience in survival analysis, and linear and generalized linear models.

• Capacity to interface effectively with clinicians and statistical programmers.

• Capacity to work independently.
• Capacity to quickly read late development protocols, understand the statistical methodology, and apply it to clinical data.
• Knowledge and practice of CDISC SDTM and ADaM data standards.
• Ability to work in compliance with the company Analysis and Reporting SOPs and project data standards.

  Able to re-in force the compliance.
• Fast learner, team-oriented, able to work independently.
• Knowledge of SAS programming SAS/STAT SAS/BASE, SAS macro language. Experience with SAS on PC and UNIX platforms.

Qualifications and Experience:

• MSc or Ph.D. in Statistics.
• 8-10 years of relevant clinical trial biostatistics support in design, analysis, and interpretation. Proven experience of

   work with clinical trial data in support of safety and efficacy analysis
• Ability to read, write and speak fluently in English.

• CDISC knowledge is required.

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