Biostatistician II

Role Summary

When our values align, there's no limit to what we can achieve.

At Parexel , we all share the same goal - to improve the world's health. From clinical trials to regulatory, consulting, and market access, every clinical development solution we provide is underpinned by something special - a deep conviction in what we do.

Each of us, no matter what we do at Parexel , contributes to the development of a therapy that ultimately will benefit a patient. We take our work personally, we do it with empathy and we're committed to making a difference.

Responsibilities

• Operational Execution
• Coordinate and lead a project team to successful completion of a project within timelines and budget
• Interact with clients as key contact with regard to statistical and contractual issues
• Perform QC of derived datasets, tables, figures and data listings produced by other members of the department
• Check own work in an ongoing way to ensure first time quality
• Understand and apply advanced statistical methods
• Lead production and quality control of randomizations, analysis plans, statistical reports, statistical sections of integrated clinical reports and other process supporting documents
• Provide a supporting role as a non-voting independent statistician providing data and analysis for DMC review
• Travel to, attend and actively contribute to all kind of client meetings as appropriate (eg discussing analysis concepts, presenting, discussing and interpreting study results)

Business Development

Support of Business Development, eg by actively contributing to study design considerations in internal and client meetings, providing and discussing sample size scenarios, support of budget and proposal development, attending and preparing bid defense meetings for potential studies, programs of work and FSPs

General Activities

Additional responsibilities as defined by supervisor/manager.

Requirements

Skills

• Good analytical skills
• Good project management skills
• Professional attitude
• Attention to detail
• Thorough understanding of statistical issues in clinical trials
• Prior experience with SAS programming required
• Ability to work independently
• Good leadership skills
• Good business awareness/ business development
• Willingness to work in a matrix environment and to value the importance of teamwork
• PhD in Statistics or related discipline with some experience or MS in Statistics or related discipline with significant experience
• The knowledge of pharmacokinetic data is an advantage
• Competent in written and oral English in addition to local language

Education

PhD in Statistics or related discipline, MS in Statistics or related discipline